You will serve as a Lead Scientist in the Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare Systems Engineering Division of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV. This announcement uses the Direct Hire Authority for Certain Personnel of the Department of Defense to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.

Duties

You will technically advise a professional force of scientists, engineers, technicians, and analysts ranging in grade from junior level to senior level. You will exercise technical and administrative control of the production sonobuoy products. You will develop developmental and production requirements for current and proposed programs and manage financial resources within the assigned budget. You will serve as an expert technical authority in the areas of Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), Air-deployed ASW Systems, ASW Software Development, and ASW Technologies.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12/13 grade level or DP-04 pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Utilizing experience with Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) systems to provide management and technical direction to workforce, processes, products, and facilities; 2) Monitoring and reporting the status and progress of work, checking on work progress, and reviewing completed work to ensure guidelines have been met; 3) Establishing long-range ASW objectives and defining resource requirements, schedules, and support needed for the execution of programs; and 4) Making recommendations to project teams of advanced technology techniques, applications, and system developments to address current and evolving problems. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: Computer Science Series 1550 (opm.gov). Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess.

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.

Contacts

• Address NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV Naval Air Warfare Center Patuxent River, MD 20670-5304 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]