Materials Engineer​/Chemist Security Clearance

Job Overview

You will serve as the Lead Materials Engineer or Chemist for one or more technical domains within the Materials Engineering Division, MRO Engineering Department, located at Fleet Readiness Center East Cherry Point, North Carolina.

• You will provide authoritative, independent technical direction and oversight with regard to material properties, processes, failure analysis, and evaluation for specification conformance.
• You will provide technical decisions and engineering dispositions, both oral and written, to customer groups, as well as, local and national leadership.
• You will develop, assemble and issue engineering instructions and determinations concerning materials engineering and associated processes related to repair of aircraft materials, parts and/or assemblies undergoing maintenance or modification.
• You will serve as the national authoritative expert for one or more Materials Engineering technical domains by acting as a primary custodian of one or more NAVAIR General Series Manuals (GSM).

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov.
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Acquisition
  
  Functional Area
  
  and category assigned to the position is required within established category time frames.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:

• Understanding of Fleet Support Team (FST) Engineering;
• Developing program sustainment and acquisition engineering support;
• Managing technical and professional services required to sustain a weapon system;
• Evaluating new approaches, guides, and standards to make engineering decisions.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). https://-

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.

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:
Applicants must possess FOR THE 0860 SERIES:
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…