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ELECTRICAL ENGINEER (TRAINEE)

Department of the Navy
Naval Sea Systems Command
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Summary

This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.

Overview

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Job closed
Posted 03/11/21
Location
Work site options
Telework eligible
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Relocation expenses reimbursed
Yes—Relocation expenses (i.e. PCS) or relocation incentives as described in 5 USC 5753 may be authorized in accordance with applicable travel regulations.
Salary
$48,978 - $73,731 per year
Pay scale & grade
GS 7 - 9
Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job.
Work schedule
Full-Time
Travel Required
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Appointment type
Permanent
Occupations and job series
Supervisory status
No
Federal service type
This job is in the Competitive Service
Drug test
No
Security clearance
Secret
Announcement number
DE-11057809-21-JEH
Control number
594914900

This job is open to

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Clarification from the agency

U.S. Citizens

Duties

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  • You will collect and analyze technical data to perform design or feasibility studies for assigned area.
  • You will prepare layouts, specifications, sketches, and calculations.
  • You will review design proposals and check drawings and specifications for adequacy.
  • You will prepare technical reports and budget documents.
  • You will evaluate bids for compliance with contract requirements. Monitor contract work performance, through correspondence and personal contacts.
  • You will analyze available information on potential contractors and prepare tentative evaluations of capacity of personnel and facilities to perform required work.
  • You will arrange for engineering tests and establish less complex procedures. Observe tests, analyze and evaluate test data and reports on results.
  • You will review reports of in-service failures and maintenance problems, and recommend remedial actions. Develop maintenance procedures, standards, and data.
  • You will visit field activities and contractor sites for orientation and to obtain information. Study technical reports and publications. Attend meetings and conferences, and exchange data with other engineers.

Requirements

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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. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
  • 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 is a bargaining unit position.
  • 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 is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). You must be certified as a Career Field Engineering Level II Certification is required within 24 months of appointment.
  • 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.
  • This position requires mobility as a condition of initial and continued employment and the incumbent must execute a mobility agreement as an acknowledgment of a willingness to travel and accept relocation for training and final placement.

Qualifications

Entry level employees will be developed into highly skilled professionals to meet projected Department of the Navy (DON) Acquisition Workforce requirements. The NADP provides highly qualified and talented entry level employees an opportunity for rapid advancement, regular promotions, systematic development, career broadening assignments and graduate education through a structured, systematic career development process using a career field Master Development Plan (MDP).

This is an entry-level position in a two-year acquisition development program in the engineering career field managed by the Naval Acquisition Career Center (NACC) in Mechanicsburg, PA. Upon completion of the two-year training program, you will be converted to a position with SSBA.

Candidates selected for an interview will be notified via email.

GS-09: In addition to the Basic Education Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of professional engineering experience at or equivalent to the GS-07 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Professional experience must demonstrate the following: professional and practical knowledge of electrical engineering concepts, principles, and practices applicable to the full range of duties concerned with the design, installation, test, and maintenance of electrical generation, distribution, and applicable support systems on ships.
Examples of experience:

  • Professional knowledge of power generation and distribution theory, shipboard electrical distribution systems, generators, alternators, shipboard automation, and control and sensing systems.
  • Skills in engineering management processes to successfully monitor and manage electrical systems design, installation, activation and testing. Knowledge of risk management techniques used to analyze and evaluate the safety and reliability of electrical and electronic equipment and associated controls.
  • Review of construction plans, vendor plans, systems diagrams, calculations, test procedures, technical manuals, purchase technical specifications, or other related documents such as factory acceptance or shipboard test results.
  • Review and evaluate changes to shipbuilding requirements to determine the impact of such changes on the system design, operation, construction schedule, contractual impacts or costs.
GS-07: In addition to the Basic Education Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of professional engineering experience at or equivalent to the GS-05 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Professional experience must demonstrate the following: professional and practical knowledge of electrical engineering concepts, principles, and practices with the design and test, for electrical generation, distribution, and applicable support systems on ships.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=GS-PROF


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


Basic Requirements:

A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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.
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B. 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 (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, 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. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 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.
3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
4. Related curriculum -- 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 1 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive).

Educational Substitution for the GS-09: Successful completion of 2 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree. or A combination of superior academic achievement and 1 year of appropriate professional experience is qualifying at GS-9. or Successful completion of a 5-year program of study of at least 160 semester hours
leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering completion of such a program and 1 year of appropriate professional experience is qualifying at grade GS-9.

Educational Substitution for the GS-07: Successful completion of 1 year of graduate-level education or superior academic achievement. or Successful completion of a 5-year program of study of at least 160 semester hours leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering is qualifying at GS-7.

Additional information

This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program.

Several vacancies may be filled.
This announcement uses the Certain Personnel of the DoD direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.
Recruitment incentives may be authorized to eligible new hires.
A relocation incentive is generally a single payment intended to offset some of the relocation costs experienced by the selectee. A relocation incentive may be authorized.
This position is eligible for part time, full time or ad-hoc telework at the discretion of management.
Vacancies filled from this announcement may be filled at any grade level listed.
IF selected below the full performance level, you may be noncompetitively promoted to the next higher grade level after meeting all regulatory requirements, and upon the recommendation of management. Promotion is neither implied nor guaranteed.

A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments.

Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience.

As vacancies occur, the Human Resources Office will review your resume to ensure you meet the hiring eligibility and qualification requirements listed in this flyer. You will be rated based on the information provided in your resume, along with your supporting documentation.

If selected, you may be required to provide additional supporting documentation.

If after reviewing your resume and supporting documentation, a determination is made that you inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may be found ineligible/not qualified.

Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment.

All qualification requirements must be met before being considered for any vacancies.

Naval Sea Systems Command

The Navy and Marine Corps team offers innovative, exciting and meaningful work linking military and civilian talents to achieve our mission and safeguard our freedoms. Department of the Navy provides competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and extensive professional development and training. From pipefitters to accountants, scientists to engineers, doctors to nurses-the careers and opportunities to make a difference are endless.

Civilian careers-where purpose and patriotism unite!

Supervisor of Shipbuilding Bath (SSBA) is recruiting for a Naval Acquisition Development Program (NADP) entry level Electrical Engineer in Marinette, WI. This is a GS-0850-7/9 with full potential to GS-12 upon program completion.

Learn more about the Naval Acquisition Development Program here: https://www.secnav.navy.mil/rda/workforce/Pages/NADP.aspx

GS-07 salary is $48,978 -$60,282
GS-09 salary is $59,907 - $73,731

Agency contact information

Jennifer Birkhead
Phone
207-442-4925
Email
jennifer.birkhead@navy.mil
Address
SUPERVISOR OF SHIPBUILDING BATH
574 Washington Street
Bath, ME 04530-1905
US

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