SUPERVISORY NUCLEAR ENGINEER

Summary

You will serve as a SUPERVISORY NUCLEAR ENGINEER in the CONTROL ENGINEERING DIVISION, NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND PLANNING DEPARTMENT (C2300) of PEARL HARBOR NSY AND IMF.

Responsibilities

You will exercise full administrative and technical supervisory authority over subordinate supervisory engineers, branch leads, and a multidisciplinary team of professional nuclear, electrical, and systems engineers.

You will establish work schedules, project milestones, and engineering priorities based on shipyard overhaul schedules, operational vessel availabilities, and fleet taskings.

You will evaluate subordinate work performance, provide formal and informal performance ratings, and gives counsel, advice, and instructions on both technical and administrative matters.

You will interview candidates for vacancies, recommend appointments, promotions, reassignments, details, and disciplinary measures, and resolve employee grievances and serious operational complaints.

You will actively support and enforce federal, Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, and COMPACFLT Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) policies and Merit System Principles.

You will direct comprehensive engineering surveillance and technical coordination of all shipyard operations involving naval nuclear primary plant control systems and associated equipment across all active availabilities.

You will systematically review daily and shift reports from engineering surveillance personnel maintaining round-the- clock technical oversight of shipyard nuclear production work.

You will evaluate anomalies, determine root causes of operational defects or equipment deviations, and verify that corrective actions maintain complete reactor plant safety and radiological integrity.

You will ensure all engineering surveillance activities strictly comply with technical work documents, radiological safety standards, NAVSEA directives, and Naval Reactors technical manuals.

You will retain final approving authority as Division Head, while delegating approval authority to subordinate Branch Heads and Senior Engineers for technical work documents, operating procedures, and evaluations requiring divisional concurrence.

You will prepare and submit authoritative technical evaluations and requests for formal deviation from established guides and military specifications when necessitated by unique shipyard overhaul conditions.

You will serve as the primary shipyard technical consultant and representative on nuclear control engineering matters during high-level conferences, design reviews, and technical discussions with all representatives.

You will secure formal review, technical concurrence, and mutual agreement between Naval Reactors Representative's Office , Ship's Force, and executive management involving ship safety, reactor plant safety, or shared shipboard operations.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional engineer demonstrating the following: proficiency in troubleshooting microelectronics, microprocessors, digital/analog equipment, facilities electrical work and electrical power distribution associated with operation of nuclear reactor plant equipment, controllers, breakers and fuses; a highly advanced knowledge of the principles of nuclear engineering including metallurgy, nuclear physics, electrical, fluid flow, reactor theory and chemistry as they apply to naval nuclear vessel design, construction and operation; expertise in his/her field and well versed in all fields of engineering, including electrical, mechanical, nuclear and chemical. 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 AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf 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 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: (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 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: http://www.nspe.org OR 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. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. OR 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 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.