SUPERVISORY GENERAL ENGINEER

Full Job Description

You will serve as a Technical Director in the Amphibious Assault and Connectors Program Office (PMS 317) of PROGRAM EXECUTIVE OFFICE SHIPS.

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.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower pay band, NH-03 (GS-13 Equivalent), in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional engineer leading or coordinating projects for the development, testing, evaluation, design, certification, repair, or delivery of surface ship systems, subsystems, or components.

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 manage all aspects of engineering activity to ensure Hull, Mechanical, and Electrical and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Navigation (C4N) designs are supportive of existing or revised requirements.
• You will provide technical direction and assistance to the Fleet, NAVSEA field activities, industrial activities and participating shipyards.
• You will schedule and chair technical meetings, as required, with key officials of support agencies within DoD and private Industry.
• You will perform technical trade-off studies and make recommendations to select optimum craft designs to support drawing, specification and craft/boat alteration development, and contract modifications.
• You will conduct or participate in integration design reviews, initiate and direct special engineering studies, and review and approve design improvements, where applicable.
• You will supervise civilians and direct work to be accomplished, and set priorities and preparing schedules for the completion of tasks.
• You will evaluate employees' work performance under the current performance evaluation system.
• You will provide technical guidance and evaluate work products prepared by contractors and field activity logistics functional specialists and technical specialists consistent with the terms of approved contracts.
• You will work with the product Principal Assistant Program Managers (PAPMs) on establishing program wide responsibility for overall technical direction and management of the planning, acquisition, and life cycle sustainment of systems and equipment.