ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

About the role

You will serve as an Electrical Engineer in the Power and Lighting Branch (276), Engineering Division, Engineering and Planning Department of Norfolk Naval Shipyard.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance for preparation of lists on drawings required to execute complex projects, evaluates mandays required for shipchecking, develop each drawing, order special material, and prepare test procedures.
• Ensure completion dates for various phases of the project satisfy requirements by coordinating efforts of assigned engineers and technicians and advise the Branch Head on number of people required to meet scheduled dates.
• Provide technical guidance for and prepare procedures for conducting tests on various electrical equipment and systems.
• Determine special equipment required to perform tests and instruments needed to acquire operating data and the extent of testing to be performed based on the amount and type of work accomplished on equipment.
• Prepare specifications and provide directions for the procurement of special materials and services associated with assigned projects, ensuring specifications and operating parameters are met to permit competitive bidding.
• Prepare and review all drawings, material, specifications, test procedures and other documents pertaining to the project for technical adequacy and compliance with specifications and quality requirements.
• Provide all electrical drawings, special racks and equipment and modifications to install a specific system in a specified space.
• Direct and coordinate the projects and work of assigned personnel and submit it to the Branch Head for approval while adhering to production and time schedules.
• Be required to TDY 20% of the time to shipcheck, troubleshoot and repair electrical systems and components, including periods aboard ship at sea.

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.
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. 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 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:

• Demonstrated professional engineering design experience with, and technical knowledge of, power distribution systems, lighting systems, ships service and emergency generators, motor generators, ships service and emergency switchboards, HVAC power and control systems.
• Proven working knowledge of the unique engineering and design interface requirements for nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs), specifically encompassing nuclear propulsion plant cognizant compartments, systems, components, and secondary containment boundaries.

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 Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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 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.