MARINE MACHINERY MECHANIC WORK LEADER
Naval Sea Systems Command
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Marine Machinery Mechanic Work Leader
Naval Sea Systems Command
Department of the Navy
Job Description
Summary
This job involves leading a team of skilled workers in maintaining, assembling, and testing naval machinery at a Navy facility, ensuring everything runs smoothly and meets standards.
You'll assign tasks, check progress, and sometimes jump in to do the hands-on mechanical work yourself.
It's a great fit for someone with strong leadership skills and solid experience as a mechanic in a technical or industrial setting, especially if you've worked with heavy equipment or in a team environment.
Key Requirements
- Ability to lead or supervise skilled trades workers
- Journey-level experience as a marine machinery mechanic
- Knowledge of operating, assembling, installing, modifying, maintaining, and disassembling naval machinery
- Skills in directing tasks, demonstrating methods, setting pace, and checking work quality
- Qualification for CTF watch stations and maintenance job requirements
- Experience inspecting work for correctness and conformance to design
- Familiarity with utilizing other trades and borrowed labor for tasks
Full Job Description
You will serve as a Marine Machinery Mechanic Work Leader in the General Industrial Support Work Center Branch of the zzIndustrial Support Division of NSWC PHILA DIV.
Although a specific length of time and experience is not required for most trade and labor occupations, you must show through experience and training that you possess the quality level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties of the position at the level for which you are applying.
Qualification requirements emphasis is on quality of experience, not necessarily the length of time.
Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the job elements and screen out listed below.
This job has a screen-out element which will be used to determine minimum eligibility for this job.
Applicants who do not receive a minimum of two points on the screen-out element(s) will be found ineligible. The Screen-out Element for this position is: Ability to lead or supervise.
Applicants must meet the requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Job Qualification Handbook for Trades and Labor Occupations.
Additional qualification information can be found at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/federal-wage-system-qualifications/#url=List-of-Approved-Job-Elements 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. Major Duties:
- You will be operating, assembling, installing, modifying, maintaining, and disassembling test and plant installations of naval machinery, both production and prototype.
- You will direct skilled trade’s persons in the execution of the work.
- You will assign immediate tasks, demonstrate work methods, set the pace, check work, assure the work is completed, and report to the supervisor on work status or cause of work delays.
- You will utilize other trades as helpers, determine and utilize borrowed labor in accomplishing assigned tasks, inspect work being done by other tradesman to insure correctness and conformance to design.
- You will perform work as a journey-level mechanic; Fully qualified on CTF watch stations including the CTF Maintenance Job Qualification Requirements and member of the work crew led.
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