INTERDISCIPLINARY

Summary You will serve as a Navy On-Scene (Navy OSC) INTERDISCIPLINARY ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER OR PHYSICAL SCIENTIST in the Environmental Division of COMNAVREG MIDLANT NORFOLK. Responsibilities You will serve as the Navy On-Scene Coordinator and Incident Commander for pollution response incidents involving any Navy or USMC asset on or off installations throughout the Area of Responsibility for Commander Navy Region Mid-Atlantic (CNRMA). You will be on-call to respond on an emergency basis, with no advance notice, to the accidental or deliberate release of oil or hazardous substances throughout the AOR. You will be responsible for providing independent assessments of environmental incidents and determine the appropriate emergency response actions required. You will ensure processes are in place to promptly mobilize emergency response contractors during major incidents impacting the environment. You will review contract actions and/or deliverables to ensure the validity, completeness, and acceptability to the Navy to resolve all stakeholder liabilities. You will maintain collaborative partnerships with other Federal and State agency representatives involved in environmental emergency response actions along with external non-governmental organizations (NGOs). You will collaborate with other Federal On-Scene Coordinators (FOSC’s) through active participation in Regional Response Teams (RRTs) throughout the AOR. You will coordinate and ensure response equipment training, Incident Command System courses, and tabletop/functional exercises (TTX’s/FTX’s) are delivered to Facility Response Teams and Incident Management Teams to promote response readiness. You will assume the role of on-scene IC during all facility worst case discharge (WCD) scenarios during National Preparedness for Response Exercise Program (PREP) exercises. You will oversee all reportable discharges or releases of oil and hazardous substances (OHS) to ensure proper reporting, human health is protected, and environmental impacts are effectively mitigated. You will oversee all reportable discharges or releases of oil and hazardous substances (OHS) to ensure adverse contamination is properly remediated, and cultural/natural resources are protected or restored to pre-existing conditions. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications This position has a selective placement factor for those applying to the Environmental Engineering series (0819) that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates. The selective placement factor is: You must currently be a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States. 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-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing the following duties: 1) Managing spill response equipment requirements, resources, allocations, and programming for an organization; 2) Planning, designing, facilitating, or participating in preparedness and response exercises for multiple regulated facilities; 3) Providing expertise in the selection, operation, and/or procurement of spill response equipment utilized in the environmental emergency response industry; 4) Applying Incident Command System (ICS) in notional or real-world incidents with experience as an Incident Commander, any Command Staff position, Section Chief, or Deputy Section Chief; 5) Responding to natural or man-made disasters, discharges of oil, releases of hazardous substances, or other incidents with significant environmental impacts; 6) Communicating technical information to various audiences; and 7) Developing contingency plans (CONPLAN) and concept of operations (CONOPS) concerning oil and/or hazardous substances. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: 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 PROFESSIONAL BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE 0401: Applicants must possess a degree in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or a related discipline appropriate to this position. OR Have a combination of education and experience in one of the above majors that includes at least 24 semester hours in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or a discipline related to this position plus appropriate experience or additional education. The quality of the combination of education and experience demonstrates that I possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the work of the position and is comparable to that normally acquired through the completion of a full four year course of study with a major as described above. PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 0819: Applicants must have successfully completed 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 Have 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. PROFESSIONAL PHYSICAL SCIENCE 1301: Applicants must have successfully completed a bachelor's degree or higher in physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. OR Have a combination of education and experience with education equivalent to one of the majors shown above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Additional Information This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program. 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. During the application process you will have the ability to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions in the local commuting area. Depending on the hiring organization and the position being filled, job requirements (e.g., security clearance, travel, drug testing, financial disclosure filing, bargaining unit status, etc.) may vary. Other hiring managers filling similar positions may offer relocation expense reimbursement and/or may offer recruitment incentives for new employees, depending on funding availability and in accordance with policy. If you opt-in and are referred on a certificate, your resume will be available to other hiring managers for 180-days from the date the job announcement closes. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions. 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: 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: 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. 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.