About the Position: This position is located at the Stand-Alone Market, NBHA Portsmouth, with the Dir of Med, Optometry, Kittery, ME.

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS), often called the Portsmouth Navy Yard, is a United States Navy shipyard on Seavey's Island in Kittery, Maine, bordering Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The naval yard lies along the southern boundary of Maine on the Piscataqua River.

  Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS) employs a civilian workforce of top-tier professionals to safely overhaul, repair, and modernize the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered attack submarine fleet, specifically Los Angeles and Virginia-class submarines. We provide quality overhaul work in a safe, timely, and affordable manner. This includes a full spectrum of in-house support-from engineering services and production shops, to unique capabilities and facilities, to off-site support-all of which serves the multifaceted assortment of fleet requirements. Founded on June 12, 1800, PNS is the U.S. Navy's oldest continuously operating shipyard. Today, most of its work concerns the overhaul, repair, and modernization of submarines. As of November 2021, the shipyard employed more than 6,500 federal employees.

Working for the Department of Defense comes with an abundance of benefits and perks to include competitive compensation packages, paid time off, medical benefits, student loan repayments, and retirement package with Thrift Savings Plan to include matching employer contributions. For more information, please visit the following link: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/benefits/      

Who May Apply: US Citizens

This is a Direct Hire Solicitation

• The PNSY program involves testing individuals to determine if they meet PNSY work guidelines regarding visual acuity, depth perception, and color vision.
• When safety spectacles are required, the incumbent is responsible for fitting/ordering/dispensing prescription safety eyewear, parts and accessories.
• The incumbent functions as a para-optometric in the reception of patients, ancillary testing of these patients, and disposition for spectacle ordering, referral, or follow-up.
• Measures visual acuity, distance and near; amplitude of accommodation; and interpapillary distances: and instills ocular medications as needed.
• Performs confrontation visual field tests and tonometry and color vision testing.
• Technical/professional skill is required in the use of the following instrumentation: Topcon Retinal Camera; Humphrey Visual Field Analyzer; and other optometry instruments as required.
• Office management. The incumbent is required to establish and maintain appointment templates and to make appointments not filled by the TRICARE contractor.
• The incumbent is responsible for maintaining a numerical filing system to keep all civilian and military vision records current.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Who May Apply: US Citizens