NNSA - building careers while securing the future through engineering, science, and national security in an environment where your contributions make a difference. The Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program (NNPP), part of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), has the mission to develop the most advanced naval nuclear propulsion technology and to provide technical support for the continued safe, reliable operation of all existing naval reactors.
As the Program Manager New Ship Design you will have the following duties: Responsible for overseeing the technology development, design and construction of new design nuclear propulsion plants for the Navy's next generation strategic deterrent COLUMBIA Class and the Navy's next generation attack submarine, SSN(X) design. This encompasses all aspects of nuclear propulsion plant design including construction, testing and acceptance, safe and reliable operations and maintenance and repairs of these plants. Coordinates, plans, reviews and analyzes all aspects of the design effort including preparation of technical requirements, schedules and budgets. Serves as a principal advisor to the Deputy Administrator for Naval Reactors, on policy issues affecting major program planning, budget and priority objectives. Advises on a wide variety of important complex and difficult problems affecting new design nuclear powered ships. Represents the Deputy Administrator for Naval Reactors on day-to-day issues and in meetings with top level Navy, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, General Accounting Office, Office of Management and Budget, Congressional and industry officials on matters associated with new design submarine nuclear propulsion plants. Provides overall program direction to Naval Reactors senior management and staff and to senior management at private and naval shipyards and Naval Reactors laboratories and procurement prime contractors for achieving program goals. Coordinates the efforts of the numerous vendors and contractor design groups in the program to ensure that sources of supply of highly specialized equipment are developed, safety and quality are maintained at each plant, and a well-coordinated system exists which provides for a timely flow of design data and components to shipyards.
You must meet the basic education requirements for at least one of the occupational series 0840 identified below. You are required to submit unofficial college transcripts as outlined in the Required Documents section of this announcement. Failure to submit transcripts will result in disqualification for this position. To qualify for the 0840 Nuclear Engineering series, you must possess: A. Degree: Engineering. Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher engineering degree from an accredited college or university. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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- B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: (I) Professional registration or licensure -- 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 example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions; or (II) Written Test -- 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; or (III) Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A; or (IV) Related curriculum -- 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 1 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.) You must provide a copy of your unofficial transcript(s). Be sure to include those transcripts directly applicable for meeting the education requirements. Failure to provide proof of education will result in non-consideration for this position. Official transcripts will be required prior to entrance-on-duty for individuals selected. Education must be obtained from an accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For special instructions pertaining to foreign education and a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, see Recognition of Foreign Qualifications | U.S. Department of Education.
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