SUPERVISORY NUCLEAR ENGINEER

About the role

You will serve as a Supervisory Nuclear Engineer of the Lead Shipyard for Mixed Material (LSMM) (106.4), in the Occupational Safety Health and Environment Office (106) of NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD.

Responsibilities

• Perform a critical review of information received relative to generating, processing or characterizing mixed material or mixed waste.
• Coordinate development of standard training programs on mixed materials and mixed waste management.
• Provide technical assistance in developing, compiling, and disseminating information on mixed process stream minimization, including material substitution and process changes.
• Establish agreements with activities to perform research and development work to complete commitments, assigned tasks, and to provide funding within the approved budget.
• Maintain up-to-date presentations used by personnel with federal and state regulators on mixed waste and participate in such presentations when requested.

Requirements

• 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.
• Must meet the time-in-grade requirement by the closing date of this announcement.
• Must be registered for Selective Service.
• Must obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty.
• Must be able to participate in medical surveillance programs.
• Must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• Must be able to review the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct at 5 CFR 2635.101.
• Must be able to complete ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, within 30 days of appointment.

Qualifications

• At least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector, demonstrating the following:
• Experience working in an industrial environment.
• Experience managing compliance programs impacted by nuclear work, including interpretation of environmental laws and regulations.
• Experience developing contract specifications, terms negotiation, and funding allocation/execution.
• Experience collecting and assembling data for regulatory submittal.
• Experience negotiating with regulatory agencies.
• Experience forecasting resource needs and managing scheduled workload.
• Experience with shipyard project needs and relationship to risk and liability.
• Experience communicating with various personnel levels in organizations including production, engineering and leadership both written and oral.
• Experience building and fostering working relationships with separate navy commands.
• Experience applying engineering principles to solve problems.
• Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Education

• Successful completion of a professional engineering degree.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.