You will serve as a Senior Power Systems Engineer in the Expeditionary & Developmental Power & Energy, code 635 of CARDEROCK DIV NS. This is position interdisciplinary and may be filled by General Engineer-0801, Mechanical Engineer-0830, Electrical Engineer-0850, or Chemical Engineer-0893 based on qualifications. Applicants in positions other than those listed (0801/0830/0850/0893) may apply; however, must apply directly to the series listed that is most applicable to their qualifications.
- You will provide senior-level electrical engineering/subject matter expertise across critical focus areas including hybridization, electrification, advanced battery systems, power/energy modeling, and subsea warfighting networks.
- You will serve as an advisor for complex Research, Development, Test and Evaluation efforts.
- You will lead the investigation, advancement, integration, and evaluation of advanced electrochemical power sources, lithium batteries, battery management systems, control interfaces, wireless power transfer, and power electronics.
- You will drive the design and testing of future power technologies to ensure operational superiority/certification for critical Navy and Marine Corps applications, including tactical vehicles, missiles, propulsion, and subsea expeditionary systems.
Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the ND-04 (GS-12/13) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience designing and conducting laboratory or field tests of electrical power systems, including battery or other electrochemical power sources; evaluating test data to identify system performance, failure modes, and safety or design issues; developing or integrating electrical power-control components, such as battery-management-system interfaces, power-conversion equipment, or data-acquisition equipment; and preparing technical reports and briefings that document test methods, results, analyses, conclusions, and recommended engineering actions. 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/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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Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. OR 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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org OR Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. OR Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above) OR 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 one 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.
