Supervisory Naval Architect

Position: SUPERVISORY NAVAL ARCHITECT
Duties

• You will be responsible for contract administration of new construction, design, development and overhaul contracts. Engineering Department provides the engineering and technical management actions for the SSGC and represents NAVSEA on waterfront.
• You will have the authority to make technical decisions for the Navy and to perform engineering control over the contractors through surveillance of their design, development and production engineering efforts.
• You will be the structural expert and adviser to the SSGC CHENG and corresponding technical counterparts for all naval architect/structure matters including delivered ships through the OWLD window.
• You will develop local technical documents, maintaining consistency with higher tier technical documents (i.e. naval architect/structure detailed work procedures, detailed construction drawings, internal shipyard and contractor process requirements).
• You will ensure that safety and reliability requirements are addressed in all technical processes.
• You will manage resolution of technical issues; provide technical insight; ensure issues and mishaps are properly staffed and coordinate programmatic authority issues with the Fleet or Project Manager.
• You will represent NAVSEA in interpreting and ensuring compliance with technical requirements, standards, processes and policies.
• You will ensure repaired, built or altered ships systems and components fully conform to the approved NAVSEA design configuration or follow the engineering change and non-conformance documentation and approval requirements.
• You will provide engineering support to project teams while maintaining a core engineering staff.
• You will manage all technical aspects of planning for their assigned activities, including technical decision-making, compliance and configuration control.
• You will lead the waterfront technical efforts for construction, modernization, maintenance and repair, including implementation of configuration requirements.
• You will be responsible for task assignments to division personnel and the coordination of efforts with the division (i.e. scheduling of workload as determined by work priority, manpower availability and complexity of the job).

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 SECRET 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 is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Acquisition
  
  Functional Area
  
  and category assigned to the position is required within established category time frames.
• 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 .

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the pay band NH-03 (GS-13 equivalent) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:
as a professional engineer analyzing the engineering architectural designs or specifications of surface ships to support the integration of shipboard systems, subsystems and components.

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- Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional,…