General Engineering/HVAC

You will serve as a PROJECT ENGINEER in the SAN DIEGO OPERATIONS, ENGINEERING DIVISION of SUPERVISOR OF SHIPBUILDING BATH.
You will serve as a PROJECT ENGINEER in the SAN DIEGO OPERATIONS, ENGINEERING DIVISION of SUPERVISOR OF SHIPBUILDING BATH.
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Work site options
Telework eligible Yes-This position is eligible for ad-hoc/situational telework at the discretion of management. Remote job No 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. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Appointment type Permanent

0801 General Engineering

Supervisory status No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No
Drug test No Security clearance Secret Position sensitivity and risk Noncritical-Sensitive (NCS)/Moderate Risk

Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . Financial disclosure required No
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Veterans
Veterans of the U.Armed Forces or a spouse, widow, widower or parent of a veteran, who may be eligible for derived preference

Individuals with disabilities
Current and former permanent employees, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) eligibles, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Preference eligibles and DoD Retained Grade Preference eligibles, VEOA eligibles, and 30% disabled veterans.
You will serve as project engineer for the assigned ship program at SUPSHIP Bath, with an objective to achieve effective field activity technical support to the program.
You will maintain a good overall perspective of the system to help interpret and explain motivations for requirements to his team members and thereby gain their acceptance and commitment to objectives.
You will maintain tight liaison with all technical areas of the program, including: analysis, design, manufacturing, and test.
You will conduct technical evaluations and investigations into design and engineering change proposals, waiver and deviation problems and procedures.
You will define, clarify, and document requirements; perform necessary analysis and tradeoff; You will maintain communications with the contractor's engineering and design departments, SUPSHIP Bath engineers, Ship Design Manager(s), and Technical Warrant Holders.
You will monitor the engineering workload, establish priorities, help ensure timely completion of tasks, and provide advice and recommendations to the engineering manager.
You will prepare correspondence and management plans including technical reports, specification change notices, work instructions, contract modification requests, and scope documents as required to completed project assignments.
Must be a US Citizen.
Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. 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. 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.

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 as a professional engineer managing the design or evaluation technical challenges for the development and sustainment of naval shipboard systems and/or components.

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.

Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. 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: (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (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. 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 For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at:

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 The FE examination is not administered by the U. Office of Personnel Management. 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)

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., 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. security clearance, travel, drug testing, financial disclosure filing, bargaining unit status, etc.) 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. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions.

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:

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.

ICTAP candidates must provide copies of all of the following documentation at the time of application: 2) most recent performance appraisal; Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees.

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.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent.