NUCLEAR ENGINEER

Full Job Description

You will serve as a NUCLEAR ENGNEER in the Equipment Branch (Code 2370.10, Nuclear Refueling Engineering Division (Code 2370), Nuclear Engineering and Planning Department (Code 2300) of NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience advising senior leadership or management on solutions for complex and unprecedented technical, administrative, or programmatic engineering challenges exercising technical control of refueling/defueling work performed on a project; Experience performing advance technical planning to prepare the shipyard to complete refueling/defueling operations; Experience authoring or reviewing formal technical documentation, such as engineering analyses, test procedures, work packages, or official briefings for a leadership audience; Experience managing the technical aspects of an engineering project, with work being accepted as technically authoritative without significant review; Experience negotiating and resolving conflicts with multiple stakeholders regarding technical requirements, work plans, or project schedules; Experience mentoring, coaching, or providing technical oversight to junior engineers and team members to develop their technical skills and increase the team's overall capabilities.

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. Major Duties:

• You will provide engineering direction n support of reactor servicing shipboard procedures and/or TWDs/Lift Sketches in their assigned area of responsibility (AOR).
• You will direct, control, monitor, interpret, and seek resolution on all matters pertaining to the effective conduct of production and engineering practices in their AOR.
• You will provide technical content, radiological controls, administrative content, and ensure compliance with all local and Naval Sea Systems Command (NA VSEA) technical and safety requirements.
• You will lead with duties involving distributing and balancing the workload among employees.
• You will maintain status and progress of work, including reporting on expected time of completion of work.
• You will maintain close liaison with the following reactor servicing personnel as applicable while resolving reactor servicing and/or component technical problems.
• You will ensure technical subordinates meet their organizational goals and objectives in a mentoring capacity.
• You will lead development of new knowledge and innovation within AOR.
• You will prepare, review and approve off-yard correspondence to resolve drawing, procedure or reactor servicing technical manual issues and propose improvements.