General Engineer

Position: GENERAL ENGINEER
Duties

• You will serve as project engineer for the assigned ship program at SUPSHIP Bath, with an objective to achieve effective field activity technical support to the program.
• You will maintain a good overall perspective of the system to help interpret and explain motivations for requirements to his team members and thereby gain their acceptance and commitment to objectives.
• You will maintain tight liaison with all technical areas of the program, including: analysis, design, manufacturing, and test.
• You will conduct technical evaluations and investigations into design and engineering change proposals, waiver and deviation problems and procedures.
• You will define, clarify, and document requirements; perform necessary analysis and tradeoff; recognize when interface impacts might occur and take early action to avoid problems.
• You will maintain communications with the contractor's engineering and design departments, SUPSHIP Bath engineers, Ship Design Manager(s), and Technical Warrant Holders.
• You will select and prepare process metrics and status reports that provide the necessary insights to ensure that the correct areas of processes are being analyzed.
• You will monitor the engineering workload, establish priorities, help ensure timely completion of tasks, and provide advice and recommendations to the engineering manager.
• You will prepare correspondence and management plans including technical reports, specification change notices, work instructions, contract modification requests, and scope documents as required to completed project assignments.

Requirements

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.
• 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.

Qualifications

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 as a professional engineer managing the design or evaluation technical challenges for the development and sustainment of naval shipboard systems and/or components.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:
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- 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 basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel…