SUPERVISORY INTERDISCIPLINARY NUCLEAR ENGINEER/HEALTH PHYSICIST

U.S. Fleet Forces Command; Portsmouth (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, VA is seeking an INTERDISCIPLINARY SUPERVISORY NUCLEAR ENGINEER or SUPERVISORY HEALTH PHYSICIST to lead the Radiological Emergency Planning Division at Norfolk Naval Shipyard.

The role involves guiding a technical team, developing procedures for radiological events, coordinating with federal, state and local partners, and maintaining response assets to ensure rapid and effective protective actions shipboard and shore installations.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a technical or professional team, including assignment and coordination of work, resolving conflicts and project management.
• Experience applying radiological controls, nuclear engineering, or health physics knowledge as applied to naval programs.
• Experience planning, executing, and/or evaluating radiological drills and/or exercises.
• Experience managing complex technical programs while coordinating with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the Division Head's staff and coordinate work to meet objectives with timely, high-quality deliverables.
• Assign and coordinate tasks to ensure achievement of overall objectives and quality standards.
• Schedule leave, evaluate performance, and advise on discipline, promotions, and training as needed.
• Coordinate response to naval nuclear reactor incidents or radiological emergencies with procedures for notifying pertinent personnel and assessing radiological conditions.
• Collaborate with Federal, State, and Local agencies to ensure shipyard response plans provide integrated emergency coverage.
• Maintain and upgrade radiological emergency support facilities, such as mobile response vans and radiological assessment equipment.

Skills

Leadership

Team coordination

Nuclear engineering

Health physics

Emergency response planning

Drills and exercises

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Engineer intern / EIT / PE licensure

FE examination or licensure readiness

60 semester hours in physical/math/engineering sciences

Alternative science/engineering degree with professional experience

Job description

Summary

You will serve as an INTERDISCIPLINARY SUPERVISORY NUCLEAR ENGINEER or SUPERVISORY HEALTH PHYSICIST in the Operations Branch (105.62), Radiological Emergency Planning Division (105.6) of the Manager, Radiological Control Support (105.1S), Radiological Control Office (105) of NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD.

Duties

• You will serve as the supervisor, advisor, and staff assistant to the Division Head of the Radiological Emergency Planning Division.
• You will assign and coordinate work in the interest of the overall objectives, ensuring timely completion and quality of assigned work.
• You will schedule and approve leave, rate performance and make decisions or recommendations for discipline, promotions, awards, and training.
• You will coordinate response to naval nuclear reactor incidents or radiological emergencies which includes the development, preparation, and maintenance of procedures for notification of appropriate emergency personnel and radiological conditions.
• You will collaborate with Federal, State , and Local government agencies to ensure Shipyard response plans, combined with plans from these agencies, provide complete and integrated coverage of necessary emergency response actions.
• You will maintain and upgrade radiological emergency support facilities, such as mobile response vans, communication/notification systems, and radiological assessment equipment.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• You will be required to wear personal protective equipment such as helmets, gloves, coveralls, glasses, goggles, respirators and safety shoes continuously for the duration of the work shift.
• Work is performed in areas where potentially harmful physical and chemical agents are present (e.g. fumes, dust, heat, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and chemicals). You will be required to participate in medical surveillance programs.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• Supervisors in the executive branch have a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. You will be required to review the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct at 5 CFR 2635.101.
• You will be required to successfully complete a pre-appointment physical examination.
• You will be required to climb ladders and scaffolding.
• You will be required to lift/carry up to 50 pounds in weight.
• You will be required to work in small and/or confined spaces.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:

• Experience leading a technical or professional team, to include assignment and coordination of work, resolving conflicts and project management.
• Experience applying radiological controls, nuclear engineering, or health physics knowledge as applied to the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.
• Experience planning, executing, and/or evaluating radiological drills and/or exercises.
• Experience managing complex technical programs while coordinating with internal and external stakeholders.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series

Nuclear Engineering Series 0840 (opm.gov)

Health Physics Series 1306 (opm.gov)

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must posses:

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Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: 1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.

OR

Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org

OR

Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.

OR

Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above)ORSuccessful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least one year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily, there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions.

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Degree: natural science or engineering that included at least 30 semester hours in health physics, engineering, radiological science, chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, and/or calculus.

OR

Combination of education and experience -- courses as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or other education; or certification as a health physicist by the American Board of Health Physics, plus appropriate experience and other education that provided an understanding of sciences applicable to health physics comparable to that described in paragraph A.

Additional information

This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program.

Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement.

A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments.

During the application process you will have the ability to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions in the local commuting area. Depending on the hiring organization and the position being filled, job requirements (e.g., security clearance, travel, drug testing, financial disclosure filing, bargaining unit status, etc.) may vary. Other hiring managers filling similar positions may offer relocation expense reimbursement and/or may offer recruitment incentives for new employees, depending on funding availability and in accordance with policy. If you opt-in and are referred on a certificate, your resume will be available to other hiring managers for 180-days from the date the job announcement closes. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions.

Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf

PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation.

ICTAP Applicants:

To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority as an ICTAP candidate, displaced Federal employees must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a rating in the highly qualified category (score 85) or higher. ICTAP candidates must provide copies of all of the following documentation at the time of application: 1) agency notice; 2) most recent performance appraisal; and 3) most recent SF-50 or notification of personnel action that includes position, grade level, and duty location. Applicants who do not provide this documentation will not receive consideration as an ICTAP candidate. For more information about ICTAP eligibility please review the following link: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/federal-employees/career-transition/

Military Spouse Preference applicants will be placed at the highest grade for which they have applied and are determined Best Qualified (BQ). A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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