Naval Architect - New London, United States - U.S. Coast Guard

U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Coast Guard
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New London, United States

3 days ago

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Description

Duties:

As a Naval Architect at the U.S.

Coast Guard Research and Development Center (RDC), you will join a fast-paced, diverse, and collaborative group of scientists, engineers, IT specialists, and analysts in the Rapid Reaction Technology (RRT) Branch.

As a member of the RRT Branch, you will contribute to research in evaluating commercial and government technologies against Coast Guard operations and maritime environments.

You will serve as a key member of project teams that have the ultimate goal of helping the Coast Guard improve its effectiveness and efficiency through the introduction of innovative technologies, tools, methods, and concepts of operation.

You will also coordinate, evaluate, integrate, and facilitate the selection, development and successful implementation of high potential technologies into Coast Guard operations.

As a Naval Architect, you will also support research and development efforts across a variety of related surface and sub-surface marine systems including unmanned/uncrewed systems, prototype development, systems integration, and hydrodynamic analysis.


Specific duties are outlined below:
Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team.

  • Conducting systematic research in problem areas that are highly complex and of considerable scope.
  • Developing solutions to problems encountered in all aspects of Naval architecture and marine engineering areas that contribute and extend to scientific and engineering knowledge.
  • Acting as a technical representative that identifies equipment, materials and services which must be procured that prepares necessary specifications, requests for proposals, and other procurement documents, and reviews bids and proposals while recommending and approving bids for contracts.
  • Coordinating with R&D Center management to evaluating objectives and allocate resources.
  • Contributing to test events, field exercises, lab demonstrations, and outreach events to conduct test and evaluation to support RDC projects and share information with internal and external sponsors and stakeholders.
  • Reporting status and technical progress to project managers and engaging in all required project tracking tasks.
  • Writing comprehensive research reports, presenting findings to sponsors and stakeholders, and briefing a wide range of audiences from field technicians and operators to senior level agency executives.

Requirements:


Conditions of Employment:


  • U.S. Citizenship is required.
  • You MUST provide transcripts in order to receive consideration.
  • Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
  • This position requires a National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI).
All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.


Qualifications:


Basic Requirements:


A.

Degree**:

Engineering.

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.


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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.

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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.
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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. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described above.
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Related curriculum -
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