Clarification from the agency

U.S. Citizens Subject position(s) will be filled through Expedited Hiring Authority (EHA) All applicants who meet the basic qualification requirements will be forwarded to the Selecting Official for further consideration. The "Rule of Three," Category Rating, Veterans Preference, and traditional rating and ranking of applicants does not apply to this vacancy.

This position provides marine engineering, naval architecture, system engineering, and program management support for a portfolio of Coast Guard boat acquisitions within the Boat Acquisition Program (CG-9325).

Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include:

• Performing engineering assignments using moderate principles, concepts and methodology of the project at hand. Perform survey and investigations at project sites to determine facility condition and obtain necessary data.
• Prepare correspondence, technical reports, estimates, fact sheets, status reports, and schedules as required to complete project development. Investigates and analyzes a variety of unusual conditions or problems involved in the development, production, testing, procurement, use, supply, or disposal of equipment and machinery. Work performed in this position is in consultation with technical specialist, engineering technicians, United States Coast Guard sponsors, headquarters’ directorates, field activities, other government agencies, and support contractors on specific requirements and projects.
• Having responsibility in developing, analyzing and reviewing designs, specifications and independent cost estimates for a variety of complex hull, mechanical, and electrical systems and components on vessels involving different types of mechanical, structural and electrical equipment, including propulsion systems, weight handling systems, multi-generator power distribution systems, HVAC, ballast and drainage, fuel and oil systems, hydraulic systems, valves, pumps, motors, reverse osmosis, winches and capstans, purifiers, vessel/component coatings, and others.
• Reviewing system designs and specifications prepared by consulting engineers for compliance with requirements and recommend necessary revisions and improvements.
• Coordinating feasible studies, developing designs and projects for equipment, materials and methods of retrofit or installation, developing cost and time estimates for designs and specifications, and developing cost estimates and life cycle costing information for engineering projects. Conducting tests with engineering requirements for system development.
• Communicate through meetings and briefings, both long-range and resource commitments. Responsible for technical analysis and review of the Coast Guard’s test documentation development, equipment/system installations and checkout, documentation development, installation control drawing and military standards specifications, shipboard equipment/system installations and test conduct to ensure the vessels’ electrical system is fully compliant with contractual requirements.
• Facilitating and/or hosting meetings, briefings, long-range planning, resource commitments; authorizing matrix team members to serve on Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), sub-IPTS, working groups, board, committees, etc., and presenting briefs to program personnel and executives in the Coast Guard.

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Unofficial Transcripts are required at the time of application.
• Selective service registration is required
• Drug/Alcohol Test is required.

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

Qualifications

BASIC REQUIREMENTS: Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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.

OR

Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying professional 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:

1.  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. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.

2.  Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described above.

3.  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 1 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

AND

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:  AT THE GS-13 LEVEL: Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to a GS-12 in the federal service.          

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.

National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES, or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Specialized experience includes: Playing a key role in the development of the system architecture, defining and allocating requirements, evaluating design tradeoffs, balancing technical risk between systems, defining and assessing interfaces, monitoring of verification and validation activities; creating project reports or proposals to identify and resolve issues of project scope, cost, resources, etc.; considering all program risk ears, including cost schedule and technical performance of the assets; and managing cost, schedule and technical performance of active task orders preparing for and ensuring adherence to the surface asset program plan.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

We will review your résumé and supporting documentation to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. If you meet the minimum qualifications, you will be referred for consideration. The following competencies or knowledge, skills, and abilities are needed to perform this job:

1. Knowledge of the engineering principles and concepts needed to resolve novel or obscure problems; extend and modify techniques; develop new approaches that guide others who solve a variety of technical problems; and/or apply new innovative, or experimental engineering theories, developments, or practices to problems or studies.
2. Knowledge of engineering principles, theories, practices, regulations, and procedures covering a broad range of engineering disciplines, including, mechanical, electrical, electronics, production and logistics.
3. Knowledge of a wide range of qualitative and/or quantitative methods for the assessment and improvement of acquisition program effectiveness or the improvement of complex government acquisition management processes and systems.
4. Skill in managing the lifecycle within government acquisitions including preparing for and managing the execution of design and construction tasks by defense contractors, program plan development, budget planning and execution of management of resources across multiple organizational elements.
5. Skill in communicating orally and in writing.