SPS DEPUTY CHIEF ENGINEER

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You will maintain technical expertise in the latest technology through continuing professional education and training, symposiums, and technical liaison with other military activities.

You will keep the workforce trained, informed and connected to SSPs initiatives, process and policy changes via outreach and mentoring.

You will work with the Technical Director (TD) and across the shipboard technical departments to ensure the latest Digital Engineering (DE) methods and techniques are understood and applied per the guidelines set forth by the Chief Engineer.

You will exercise a high degree of innovation, originality, and sound judgment to initiate and/or implement guidelines and policies to fulfill the mission.

You will collaborate with SP201x, tech branches and prime shipboard contractors to research and investigate current and ongoing technology initiatives, process changes and assess for impacts to the engineering policies and workforce qualifications.

You will serve as Technical Liaison to connect the technical staff to higher SSP initiatives and transformations to include Systems Engineering Transformation and keeping the technical staff abreast of replacement tools for obsolescence.

You will support and manage the development, implementation, and maintenance of the overall effectiveness of all technical program elements associated with SWS, NWS, SLCM-N, and Flight Test Instrumentation programs and policies for Shipboard Systems.

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess: Professional Engineering Series (08XX) - Degree: A professional engineering degree from an ABET-accredited college or university; OR a degree with curriculum in differential and integral calculus, with additional courses 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; OR Professional Engineering Series (08XX) - Substitution of Education/Experience: A combination of education and experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying professional 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: (a) professional registration, (b) evidence of successfully passing the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination; (c) 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 above; or (d) successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering provided that it included at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. (Note to Applicants: Please see the Qualifications & Education sections of this announcement for a link to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Individual Occupational Requirements. OPM guidance indicates that there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience. This training plan or experience must be well documented and provided at time of application.) For the 1550 Series: Bachelor's degree in computer science or bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus. All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions.