ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Qualifications

For the GS-09 Grade Level: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-07) or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional engineer resolving or troubleshooting issues with shipboard electrical systems (e.g. power generation, power distribution, circuits, shipboard automation, or control and sensing systems) for naval surface ships or submarines.

For the GS-07 Grade Level: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-05) or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional engineer applying engineering principles or methods to assist in the studies, research, or analysis of shipboard electrical systems (e.g. power generation, power distribution, circuits, shipboard automation, or control and sensing systems) for naval surface ships or submarines.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website.

Experience

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, 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.

Education

Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

1. 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.
2. Current registration as an Engineer (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 Society of Professional Engineers website.
3. 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: /Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.
4. 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.
5. 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.

In lieu of specialized experience, you may qualify with the following education or combination of both education and experience:

1. For the GS-09 Grade Level: Successful completion of a master's or equivalent graduate degree; -OR- successful completion of two full years of progressively higher graduate level education leading to a master's degree; -OR- a combination of experience and education as described above that equates to one year of experience.
2. For the GS-07 Grade Level: Successful completion of one full year of graduate level education; -OR- successful completion of a bachelor's degree with superior academic achievement; -OR- a combination of experience and education as described above that equates to one year of experience.

Additional Information

This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program. Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement.