You will serve as a MECHANICAL ENGINEER in the Naval Systems Engineering and Logistics Directorate of NAVSEA HQ FIELD SUPPORT.
Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NH-3 broadband level (GS-13 equivalency) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate work as a professional engineer conducting independent technical evaluations of structural elements of submarines or submarine systems. 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. The Secretary of Defense has ordered a department-wide hiring freeze subject to certain limited exceptions. This position is subject to the DoD hiring freeze. Offers of employment related to this vacancy announcement will not be executed until the position has an approved exemption.
You will be responsible for structural closures for personnel ingress and egress; access trunk submersibles interface; and ocean interfaces for missile tubes, payload tubes and special applications.
You will be responsible for watertight doors and operators; trunks and ocean interfaces, escape equipment, interfaces with rescue vehicles, including foreign subs; and Special Operation Forces interfaces.
You will plan and oversee the execution of performance, risk, and affordability tradeoffs for high priority and high visibility structural closure and rescue-related design and Research and Development issues.
You will develop and maintain Navy technical policy concerning ship structural closures, escape and rescue, and special warfare systems.
You will direct, manage and evaluate structural closures, escape and rescue interfaces, and special warfare system requirements, specs, system designs, analyses, risk assessments and lifecycle engineering.
You will evaluate and incorporate the latest developments in mechanical engineering of structural closures and rescue systems into technical plans, proposals, and specifications governing subsequent systems design.