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Duties

Incumbent will serve as an engineer/scientist providing reimbursable support to the PEO Soldier, Soldier Maneuver Sensors, Ground Soldier Systems and Soldier Precision Targeting Devices Quality and Test Directorate. Provide Reliability/Quality Engineering and Test Management support for electro-optical sensors. Including both passive and active sensors operating in the frequency band from infrared through ultraviolet, and laser pointers/range finders and displays. Ensure reliable and high quality systems are delivered to the Soldiers in the field that meet operational performance requirements. Position requires expertise and knowledge of electro-optic, optical, and infrared sensors, and electro-optical materials, as well as knowledge in one or more of the following areas of infrared sensors and focal plane arrays; Lasers and laser receivers; imaging and non-imaging optics; digital and analog electronics applied to electro-optical circuits or processors; laboratory and field testing and experimental methods. Incumbent will utilize widely accepted management, reliability and quality engineering/scientific techniques to analyze and evaluate; performs test management to accommodate effective research/laboratory testing and evaluation; Develops effective test and quality assurance programs; utilizes program planning and integration.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.
• This position requires temporary duty/business travel of up to 25% of time.
• This appointment has an extended trial period of three years for the Engineer and Scientists Occupational Family.
• This is an Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Workforce position. Selectee must meet position requirements for Engineering and Technical Management certification within 60 months as of entrance on duty.

Qualifications

Areas of Emphasis: Applicants will be evaluated on the basis of demonstrated level of competency (knowledge, skills, and abilities) in the following areas: (1) Utilize engineering management principles to assure the integrity of procured EO/IR systems and test equipment to achieve project goals within cost and schedule. (2) Plan technical and administrative efforts of a diverse group of engineers and technicians to execute system engineering, system quality and reliability engineering management, and sensor system manufacturing. (3) Work with EO/IR system contractors to improve their system, processes, and statistical process controls and other metrics, as well as ensure their adherence to contractual requirements. (4) Demonstrated ability to communicate both orally and in writing, clearly, concisely, and with technical accuracy. Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade or band is required. It is defined as one year of specialized experience equivalent to the DB-02 pay band (GS-11 grade level) in the Federal Service which includes experience in one or more of the following areas: 1) Leading systems engineering activities or development to facilitate the procurement of products, goods and/or services needed to meet program/project requirements. 2) Performing project management duties for defense acquisition programs and efforts. 3) Providing lifecycle systems engineering support to the acquisition process including requirements decomposition, technical planning, technical analyses, risk management, decision support, and acquisition milestones. Basic Requirement for Engineering: A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) 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. OR B. 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: 1. 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. 2. 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, or Puerto Rico 3. 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. 4. Related curriculum - 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 degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. 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. Transcripts are required to meet the Basic Education for the applicable series.

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

• Address FN-W4G8AA US ARMY COMBAT CAPABILITIES DEV CMD DO NOT MAIL Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk