About this role
Job Summary
This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.
About the Position
This position is located in the Marine Design Center's Machinery Branch.
GS-07: $55,602 - $72,285 GS-09: $68,013 - $88,421 GS-11: $82,289 - $106,982 GS-12: $98,630 - $128,221
Qualifications
Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.
Additional information about transcripts is in this document. GS-07: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience: assisting higher level Engineers with shop cost estimations; reviewing electrical engineering designs with higher level Engineers for floating plants. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-05). OR Education: One full year of graduate level education in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Electrical Engineering. OR Superior Academic Achievement. In order to be creditable under this provision, Superior Academic Achievement must have been gained in a curriculum that is qualifying for the position to be filled, such as that identified in Education above.
Superior Academic Achievement is based on
- (1) Class Standing - Applicants must be in the upper third of the graduating class in the college, university, or major subdivision, such as the College of Liberal Arts or the School of Business Administration, based on completed courses; OR
- (2) Grade-Point Average (G.P.A.) - Applicants must have a grade-point average of either
- (a) 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B" or better) as recorded on your official transcript, or as computed based on 4 years of education, or as computed based on courses completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum; or
- (b) 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B+" or better) based on the average of the required courses completed in the major field or the required courses in the major field completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum.; OR
- (3) Honor Society Membership - Applicants may be considered eligible based on membership in one of the approved national scholastic honor societies listed by the Association of College Honor Societies (https://www.achshonor.org/).
OR Combination of
Education and Experience
A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) by 18. Add the two percentages. GS-09 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience: generating cost estimations under closer than normal supervision; assist with reviewing electrical portions of engineering designs prepared by architect-engineer firms for floating plants.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07). OR Education: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Electrical Engineering.
Education and Experience
A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the first year (total graduate semester hours minus 18) by 18. Add the two percentages. GS-11 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience: Preparing cost estimates for use in situations such as project funding, bid evaluation and/or contract modifications with assistance from higher level engineers; Reviewing electrical portions of engineering designs prepared by architect-engineer firms for floating plants to evaluate adequacy and practicability with assistance from higher level engineers; and consulting with contractors to resolve complex electrical floating plant issues during construction with higher level engineers.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09). OR Education: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Electrical Engineering. OR Combination of
Education and Experience
A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages. GS-12 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience: Reviewing electrical portions of floating plant engineering designs prepared by architect-engineer firms; Reviewing contractor shop drawings to evaluate the adequacy and practicability of system designs on floating plants; prepare cost estimates for use in project funding and bid evaluation.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted at the GS-12 level.
Major Duties
- At the full performance level, you will:
- Review electrical portions of engineering designs prepared by architect-engineer firms.
- Review portions of contractors and manufacturers shop drawings, to evaluate the adequacy and practicability of the equipment or system design.
- Lead and conduct field studies and investigations on board vessels and electrical shore power/off-vessel power installations.
- Serve as Technical Manager in the design, development, and construction of new vessel electrical systems and the repair and modification of existing vessel electrical systems.
- Study of system fault capabilities, including symmetrical, phase to ground, and line to line short circuits, and also including determination of required interrupting capacities of all circuit breakers.
- Originate sketches of diagrams or drawings of special features of electric systems or components, for detail development by others.
- Represent the Marine Design Center within their area of expertise on issues related to marine electrical engineering on various floating plant types.