GENERAL ENGINEER

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.

Duties

• •You will serve as a General Engineer in the Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic (CNSL), Material Readiness Directorate (N43).
• •You will be the assigned ship owner's representative and authoritative consultant providing oversight, direction, and advisory in the full range of major maintenance/modernization planning and execution.
• •You will be the waterfront representative who identifies, validates, prioritizes, and articulates the Type Commander's requirements to the Regional Maintenance Centers.
• •You will be the focal point for all maintenance and modernization; the advocate for the assigned ship(s) in maintenance issues with other command activities; and a technical resource for both the ship and the type commander.
• •You will serve as the primary engineering technical authority for assigned surface ships, providing lifecycle engineering support to sustain material readiness, safety, reliability, and operational availability.
• •You will assess shipboard engineering, hull, mechanical, electrical, auxiliary, and habitability systems to identify material deficiencies, determine root causes, and recommend technically sound corrective actions.
• •You will plan, coordinate, and monitor maintenance, modernization, repair, and alteration work during ship availabilities, ensuring work is properly scoped, scheduled, resourced, and executed.
• •You will monitor contractor and government performance during maintenance availabilities; identify deficiencies; document findings; and recommend corrective actions to protect Government interests and ship readiness.
• •You will maintain awareness of assigned ships’ material condition, maintenance status, configuration changes, and casualty-report trends, and provide concise technical status updates to leadership.
• •You will prepare engineering analyses, technical correspondence, reports, briefings, and decision papers that clearly communicate complex issues, recommended courses of action, associated risks, and resource implications.
• •You will support the development of long-range maintenance and modernization strategies by identifying emergent requirements, evaluating engineering impacts, and prioritizing work to improve fleet readiness.
• •You will apply professional engineering judgment to resolve issues involving multiple, interrelated ship systems and competing operational, technical, schedule, and resource constraints.
• •You will represent the Port Engineer organization in meetings, planning conferences, technical reviews, and shipboard engagements with internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

GS-13 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 using marine/mechanical engineering principles to provide authoritative interpretations of guidelines and policies used in repair, maintenance, alteration and modernization of U.S. Navy Ships. Experience Serves as an authoritative consultant providing oversight, and advice on major maintenance/modernization planning and execution on U.S. Navy Ships. Experience incorporating or proposing ship improvements while considering the latest developments in the modernization/restoration of ship's facilities/equipment. IN ADDITION TO THE BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS (SEE EDUCATION SECTION): Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: General Engineering Series 0801 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

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.) IF CLAIMING EDUCATION, FAILURE TO SUBMIT TRANSCRIPTS/ITEMIZED LIST WILL RESULT IN AN INELIGIBLE RATING. See OPM's General Policies for information on crediting education.