ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
What you'd do
You will serve as a Electrical Engineer in the Planning, Design, and Construction Directorate NAVAL FACILITIES ENG SYSTEMS COMMAND PAC.
Major duties
You will prepare electrical design drawings, calculations, and specifications to accompany design models generated on electrical engineering design software (e.g. AutoCAD). You will mentor and assist in training junior engineers. You will establish project roles and responsibilities of internal and external participants to facilitate project completion. You will investigate problems (e.g., change in design and interface) with existing structures to ensure construction is compatible with the organizational plan. You will compose technical correspondence to communicate designs, plans, and objectives to management officials, staff, and customers. You will develop instructions and implement code (e.g., National Electric Code) to improve design, verify, and validate controls for facility systems. You will review design (e.g., calculations, analyses, drawings, specifications) to ensure compliance with project objectives and standards.
What you need to qualify
This position has a Selective Placement Factor that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates. The Selective Placement Factor is: You must currently be a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States. NOTE: You must submit a copy of your current license with your application package. 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: 1) Preparing facilities electrical engineering design packages, including design drawings, plans, specifications and design-build requests for proposal; 2) Reviewing shore facilities electrical engineering design submittals to provide subject matter expert acceptance recommendations to officials; 3) Providing shore facilities electrical engineering design consultation services to officials during construction; and 4) Mentoring junior electrical engineers. NOTE: This experience must be fully supported in your resume. 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.
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