MECHANICAL ENGINEER

Summary

You will serve as a Mechanical Engineer in the Maintenance and Waterfront Engineering Branch 711 of Norfolk Naval Shipyard.

Duties

• You will be assigned the most complex mechanical engineering projects on Weight Handling Equipment which include various dock cranes, bridge cranes and associated supporting systems and structures.
• You will conduct and oversee engineering design for various types of mechanical systems, satisfy requirements relating to physical arrangement, operational characteristics, required materials, dimensions and accessibility for repair and maintenance.
• You will draft technical portions of specifications for various mechanical equipment and systems using standard guide specifications, revising and rewriting data as required to assure accuracy.
• You will conduct field investigations to determine the scope of reported mechanical malfunctions, make design or procedural change to correct any deficiencies.
• You will define project scope and prepare engineering cost estimates for various mechanical projects to secure approval and funding.
• You will review and recommend approval of mechanical engineering designs prepared by architects and engineering firms under contract to the Government.
• You will review data on nuclear/non-nuclear weightlifting/handling equipment to recommend design or process changes and modifications to ensure optimum operational readiness is maintained.

Requirements

• 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.
• You will be required to successfully complete a pre-appointment physical examination.
• Work is performed in areas where potentially harmful physical and chemical agents are present (e.g. fumes, dust, heat, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and chemicals). You will be required to participate in medical surveillance programs.
• You will be required to wear personal protective equipment such as helmets, gloves, coveralls, glasses, goggles, respirators and safety shoes continuously for the duration of the work shift.
• Field inspections are made of various facilities including dock cranes, stiff leg derrick, enclosure cranes, industrial plants, and drydocks which requires walking, climbing, bending, kneeling, crawling and reaching.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, 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:

• Experience applying principles, methods, tools for developing, scheduling, coordinating, monitoring, evaluating, and managing contracting and strategy.
• Experience planning projects and resources, including technical performance, budgeting, and adherence to contracting requirements.
• Experience in applying the results of engineering and business research to secure existing products or services or to lead to the development of new products or services.
• Experience in establishing and maintaining relationships with key individuals or groups, both internal to the Government and external organizations.
• Experience and ability to persuade others to build consensus through compromise, gaining cooperation from others to obtain information, finding solutions, and accomplishing goals.
• Experience planning, defining, developing, and documenting quality requirements for products, services, processes, and systems that are suitable to the activity, proportional to the risk, and consistent with established Agency guidance, practices, and standards.
• Experience managing programs and fostering an environment that administers all resources in a manner that instills public trust while accomplishing the mission.
• Experience monitoring progress and evaluating outcomes to improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Experience holding self and others accountable to measure high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results.
• Experience determining objectives, sets priorities, and ensures sound project management processes and procedures are in place, ensuring that national interests are well served.
• Experience identifying and analyzing problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; seeks/generates and evaluates alternative perspectives/solutions; makes timely/effective recommendations, based on potential implications of findings or conclusions.
• Experience identifying the causes of problems and choosing courses of action that balance the interests of the mission and stakeholders.

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications 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.

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

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.