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U.S. Pacific Fleet, Commander in Chief NAVAL ARCHITECT in Naval Station Complex, California

Summary This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer. Responsibilities You will devise, implement, and maintain standardized engineering approaches for pre and post overhaul equipment and system testing plans, procedures, and programs. You will review, repair, modernization, and advance planning procedures. You will provide engineering solutions to specific shipboard equipment problems. You will investigate complex and diverse engineering problems during ship overhauls and availabilities presented in inspection deficiency reports and condition found reports submitted by production contractors, and ship force work requests. You will solve material issues related to materials used on naval vessels. You will interpret structural issues in complex loading using analysis methods. You will interpret a wide range of emergent structural issues. You will apply knowledge of advanced material applications where interfaces among disparate materials are a primary concern. You will perform troubleshooting and analytical tasks to identify root causes and provide technical solutions in the form of memorandums, reports and sketches. You will provide well-engineering alternatives to repairs when specifications cannot be met using prescribed materials and processes. You will assess operating shipboard systems to identify material deficiencies. You will submit root cause analysis and recommend action reports. You will act as an authoritative advisor to other commands and Naval ships on matters pertaining to ship availability advance planning management techniques including test, repair, and maintenance engineering. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications In addition to the basic education requirements, applicants must meet one year of specialized experience as follows: GS-12: Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: As a professional engineer providing technical expertise to resolve complex engineering design, installation, and operational problems for the improvement or sustainment of ships. GS-11: Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: As a professional engineer using technical experience to resolve engineering design, installation, and operational problems for the improvement or sustainment of ships. 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 AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf 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 Basic Requirements: A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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. OR B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT) 1, 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 example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. 2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 2 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. 3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. 4. Related curriculum -- Successful 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 1 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.) Substitution of education for GS-11: Education may be substituted for specialized experience as follows: Completion of 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree (such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work). Additional Information This position is within the Naval Architecture Branch of Southwest Regional Maintenance Center's Engineering Department. This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program. Several vacancies may be filled. 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. 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. Veteran's preference does not apply when selecting individuals under this specific hiring authority. However, if you claim veteran's preference, you will be required to submit supporting documentation with your application as described in the Required Documents section below. The position may require irregular hours. This position requires exposure to high noise levels. Vacancies filled from this announcement may be filled at any grade level listed. If selected below the full performance level, you may be noncompetitively promoted to the next higher grade level after meeting all regulatory requirements, and upon the recommendation of management. Promotion is neither implied nor guaranteed. Approximately 20% of the work is performed in an office setting, 80% onboard ships. The shipboard investigation phase of a task involves considerable walking, climbing and crawling in and around the systems/equipment with marginal accessibility being a frequent problem. Standing for several hours at a time on hard steel decks occurs regularly during ship visits. The work involves regular and recurring exposure to moderate risks and discomforts (heat, humidity, noise, confined spaces, aloft with harnesses). The work regularly involves frequent exposure to hazardous electrical voltages, large rotating machinery elements, electromagnetic radiation from high powered transmitters, nuclear radiation in and around machinery spaces aboard nuclear powered ships, explosive, flammable or incendiary materials, work inside boilers, turbines, condensers, etc. and entering enclosed spaces below the ship's water line (sonar domes, tanks, etc.). The work is normally required aboard U.S. and foreign naval ships at berths, at anchor or at buoys within the harbor. On numerous occasions and with short notice, there will be requirements to perform temporary additional duty at sea on Naval ships and/or at Naval or Private Shipyards located throughout the world (including combat zones) utilizing government, as well as, commercial aircraft. Helicopters and aircraft (COD) flights are utilized for transfer to ship at sea. This position has been identified as one in which shift hours may be changed without three days advance notice and for periods of less than three weeks.