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LEAD MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Military Sealift Command · Posted 51 days ago
Hybrid Mobile, AL $126K – $164K Apply by Aug 25, 2026 Mechanical Engineering INTJISTJISTP Engineering
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This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.
What You'll Do
- →You will serve as the MSC on-site authority during select inspections, tests and trials including Factory Acceptance Tests, Ship Acceptance Tests and other tests required under the contract to ensure MSC interests are being addressed.
- →You will identify and provide formal recommendations to the Program Manager for resolving design, construction, logistics and life cycle issues.
- →You will coordinate select aspects of vessel crew turnovers including logistics support, vessel familiarization and pre-delivery training for the prospective MSC crew and port engineering/operations/supply staff.
- →You will distribute and balance workload among team members in accordance with the Project Officer's instructions regarding work priorities, methods, desired outcomes, deadlines, quality, and established work flow.
- →You will coach team members and provide advice regarding work methods, practices and procedures, and assist in identifying the parameters of viable solutions.
- →You will have knowledge of commercial shipyard production procedures including progression, planning, and construction techniques.
- →You will have knowledge of procedures related to government contracts and the ability to apply new developments to problems not readily treatable by accepted methods.
- →You will have knowledge of ships equipment and systems operation to review and evaluate work of marine engineers and surveyors.
- →You will apply knowledge of contract administration and negotiating methods necessary for the oversight of ship construction, modification, and conversion programs.
Requirements
- ✓Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: All Professional Engineering Positions, 0800 Basic Requirements: A.
- ✓Degree: Engineering.
- ✓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: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, 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.
- ✓Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 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.
- ✓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.
- ✓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.) ***A transcript must be submitted with your application if qualifying using education.
- ✓See Required Documents for additional information.***
Personality Fit
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