GENERAL ENGINEER.

About the role

Join Team Submarine and help preserve America's undersea dominance. Be part of a mission-driven team that values audacity, integrity, and agility while delivering excellence on time. This position uses Direct Hire Authority (DHA) for Acquisition Demo (AcqDemo) Business & Technical Management to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. The NH-4 broadband level encompasses positions equivalent to GS-14 and GS-15.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Designated Representative and Senior Systems Engineer for USW Electromagnetic Systems across all in-service and new-acquisition U.S. Navy submarines.
• Assist Team Submarine Technical Authority enterprise in the design, development, operation, and maintenance of USW Electromagnetic critical systems.
• Coordinate and engage directly with Team Submarine, PAE Undersea and other PAE affiliated Program Offices, Naval System Commands, Naval Warfare Centers, Prime Contractors, and Type Commanders.
• Provide deep "vertical" engineering mastery to solve complex, unprecedented problems.
• Guide high-visibility projects, ensure technical accuracy, and provide technically acceptable options and authoritative concurrence on critical issues in support of the USW Technical Domain Technical Area Experts across submarine platforms.
• Assist in the acquisition, development, fielding, and sustainment of USW Electromagnetic Systems and Programs.
• Integrate standardization, commonality, configuration management, risk management, design for logistics support, test and evaluation, and modeling and simulation for these systems and programs.
• Direct the complete systems engineering lifecycle for electromagnetic systems across all submarine and submersible classes.
• Oversee concept definition, preliminary/critical design, integration, fielding, and maintenance operations across USW Electromagnetic Systems.
• Spearhead the research and development of affordable, next-generation designs and apply experimental theories, advanced systems engineering concepts, and scientific disciplines to pioneer novel electromagnetic system capabilities.
• Formulate advanced integration, test, and evaluation strategies for large-scale developments.
• Manage the complex integration of communications, sensors, cryptographic networks, and message processing payloads.
• Lead comprehensive system performance and link budget analyses.
• Evaluate performance and digital signal processing architectures critical for the active and passive detection/classification of electronic warfare signals.
• Conduct technical risk assessments on high-value issues to ensure operational suitability, effectiveness, and safety.
• Establish system-wide performance thresholds, approve technical recommendations, and participate in executing certification processes.
• Ensure flawless interface integration with Submarine Non-Propulsion Electronic Systems (SONAR, Combat, Imaging, Radar).
• Serve as the technical representative for evaluating and processing engineering deviations and waivers across the USW Electromagnetic System enterprise.
• Communicate complex scientific and engineering concepts effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Deliver expert briefings to senior leadership and project teams to guide strategic technical and operational decisions.
• Collaborate directly with Team Submarine Program Management Offices, PAE affiliated Program Management Offices, Naval Systems Command, Naval Warfare Centers, Type Commanders, and Prime Contractors to resolve critical engineering deviations.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy must successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
• 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.
• This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Functional Area and Tier assigned to the position, along with Continuous Learning (CL) points, are required within established timeframes.
• This position is a designated Critical Acquisition Position (CAP). You must sign a three-year tenure agreement prior to assuming the position unless a tenure waiver is approved.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final Top 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 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 NH-03 pay band (or GS-13 equivalency) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional engineer providing technical knowledge for Undersea Warfare (USW) Electromagnetic Systems and assisting in the design, development, and testing and evaluation of USW Electromagnetic Systems across submarine platforms.

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.
• OR 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.
• OR Required 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.
• OR 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).
• OR 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.

Pay

Salary is capped at GS-15, Step 5 ($189,902). If your current salary is above this amount, your salary may be matched.

Benefits

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible select