Mechanical Engineer (Supporting Forward Operations).
Duties
- Responsible for helping to transition sustainment capabilities to Allied Partners to help those partners gain competencies for maintaining equipment.
- Serve as a principal technical authority. This role engages stakeholders, identifies gaps, creates action plans, develops detailed project plans, and manages execution.
- Devise plans and methods to meet project objectives by developing applicable mechanical design criteria.
- Train individuals and groups to understand both foundational and complex tasks.
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation for a SECRET security clearance.
- This position requires the completion of a pre-employment Physical Examination and an annual examination thereafter to ensure the continued, required level of physical health and ability or fitness to perform the duties of the position.
- This position requires an initial financial disclosure statement OGE 450 and annually thereafter in accordance with DoD Directive 5500-7-R.
- The duties of this position require the incumbent to possess or obtain and maintain a valid state Driver's License in one of the 50 U.S. states or possessions to operate vehicles.
- This position requires the incumbent to possess, or obtain and maintain, a valid regular or official U.S. Passport.
- This position is subject to a mobility or rotation agreement as a condition of employment.
- Appointment to this position is subject to a one year probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in 5 CFR Part 11. While probationary the incumbent can be terminated with limited appeal rights.
- This position requires the incumbent to obtain and maintain a valid vehicle operator's license as required by the OCONUS Country of assignment.
- Incumbent must be able to obtain or possess and maintain a Government Credit Card.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: US Citizens
Basic Requirement for Mechanical Engineer (0830 Series)
Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) 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 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