ENGINEER/SCIENTIST
Company: Naval Sea Systems Command
Location: Norfolk
Posted on: September 27, 2024
Job Description:
Job DescriptionSummary
You will serve as an ENGINEER/SCIENTIST in the Operational Level of
War (OLW) LIVE VIRTUAL CONSTRUCTIVE TRAINING DIV, RANGE SYSTEMS
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT of NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CTR CORONA DIV.
Salary Ranges per Pay Band:
ND-03: $55,054 - $95,641
ND-04: $73,572 - $136,323
This job is open to
- Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL)
Federal employees who meet the definition of a "surplus" or
"displaced" employee.
- Individuals with disabilities
- Internal to an agency
Current federal employees of this agency.
- Land & base management
Certain current or former term or temporary federal employees of a
land or base management agency.
- Military spouses
- Special authorities
Individuals eligible under a special authority not listed above,
but defined in the federal hiring regulations.
- Veterans
Clarification from the agency
Current permanent employees of DON, DoD Military Spouse Preference
(MSP) eligibles, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG)
Technician Preference eligibles and DoD Retained Grade Preference
eligibles, and VEOA eligibles.
Duties
- You will support the development and refinement necessary to
enable training in the near term and long term for Large Scale
Exercise, MAKO SENTRY, Atlantic Alliance, and other approved OLW
training events.
- You will provide technical/operational leadership and systems
engineering expertise to emerging Training Initiatives. Provide
technical leadership in the development of solutions to close
training gaps.
- You will remain informed and engaged on the Navy's Fleet
Training Continuum and fleet exercise planning requirements in
order to shape requirements development.
- You will provide technical expertise in support of projected
capabilities and developments which support integrated Naval Fleet
training operations, support, and planning.
- You will design/develop/support warfare system training element
changes for use in the training environment. Responds to emergent
requirements from the fleet community and translate them into
technical/program requirements.
- You will coordinate with higher echelon, adjacent, and
subordinate commands/agencies.
Requirements
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.
- 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 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.
- Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including
marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be
rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or
fail the test. You will be subject to random testing.
- You will be required to perform occasional sea duty.
Qualifications
For the ND-04 pay band: 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 ND-03 (GS-09/11
equivalent) pay band in the Federal service or equivalent
experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience
must demonstrate the following: as a professional Engineer or
Scientist evaluating engineering requirements to provide technical
expertise managing, coordinating, and developing training
initiatives for naval fleet training support and operations.
For the ND-03 pay band: 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 ND-02 (GS-05
through GS-08 equivalent) pay band in the Federal service or
equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized
experience must demonstrate the following: a professional Engineer
or Scientist analyzing engineering requirements to resolve problems
and provide training operations for naval training support.
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/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series
For the 08XX series:
all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf (opm.gov)
For the 1515 series: Operations Research Series 1515 (opm.gov)
For the 1530 series: Statistics Series 1530 (opm.gov)
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
Applicants must meet the following positive education
qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management
(OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:
Applicants must possess the following education based on the series
they indicate in their application:
For the 08XX Engineering Series:
- Successful completion of a bachelor's degree (or higher) in
engineering. 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
- Successful completion of a combination of 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: (I) Professional registration or
licensure: 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 (II) Written Test:
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
(III) Specified academic courses: 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 (IV)
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 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.For the 1515 Series:
- Degree: in operations research; or at least 24 semester hours
in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability,
statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses
requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or
statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in
calculus.For the 1530 Series:
- Degree: that included 15 semester hours in statistics (or in
mathematics and statistics, provided at least 6 semester hours were
in statistics), and 9 additional semester hours in one or more of
the following: physical or biological sciences, medicine,
education, or engineering; or in the social sciences including
demography, history, economics, social welfare, geography,
international relations, social or cultural anthropology, health
sociology, political science, public administration, psychology,
etc. Credit toward meeting statistical course requirements should
be given for courses in which 50 percent of the course content
appears to be statistical methods, e.g., courses that included
studies in research methods in psychology or economics such as
tests and measurements or business cycles, or courses in methods of
processing mass statistical data such as tabulating methods or
electronic data processing.Education may be used to substitute
specialized experience with the following:
For the ND-03 Pay Band only:
- Successful completion of a master's or equivalent graduate
degree; OR
- Successful completion of two full years of progressively higher
graduate level education leading to a master's degree; OR
- Successful completion of an LL.B. or J.D. that is related to
the position being filled; OR
- A combination of experience and graduate education as described
above that equates to one year of experience.
Additional information
This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority
Placement Program.
This position is part of the Warfare Centers Personnel
Demonstration Project. The ND-03 pay band encompasses positions
equivalent to GS-09 and GS-11. The ND-04 pay band encompasses
positions equivalent to GS-12 and GS-13.
Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement.
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
ICTAP Applicants: To be considered well-qualified and exercise
selection priority as an ICTAP candidate, displaced Federal
employees must satisfy all qualification requirements for the
position and receive a rating in the highly qualified category
(score 85) or higher. ICTAP candidates must provide copies of all
of the following documentation at the time of application: 1)
agency notice; 2) most recent performance appraisal; and 3) most
recent SF-50 or notification of personnel action that includes
position, grade level, and duty location. Applicants who do not
provide this documentation will not receive consideration as an
ICTAP candidate. For more information about ICTAP eligibility
please review the following link:
https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/federal-employees/career-transition/
PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well
Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be
the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the
grade held immediately prior to separation.
Military Spouse Preference applicants will be placed at the highest
grade for which they have applied and are determined Best Qualified
(BQ). A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities,
and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive
referral criteria for the specific position.
This position is subject to work an uncommon tour, including
nights, weekends, and holidays to meet mission requirements.
Overtime or night differential pay and/or unusual duty hours may be
required.
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.
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