YOU WILL SERVE AS A GENERAL ENGINEER/PHYSICIST/OPERATIONS RESEARCH ANALYST/COMPUTER SCIENTIST IN THE T&E MANAGEMENT FOR PROGRAMS & OPS DIV, PEO(U&W) PROGRAMS TEST BR 1 OF NAVTESTWINGLANT NWCF. The position is the Senior Assistant Program Manager for T and E (APM T and E) for PMA-268 and provides T&E technical and acquisition leadership for all assigned programs.

Duties

You will develop all documentation required for the program, Tv and E inputs to all System Engineering Technical Reviews (SETR) and Gate Reviews and the execution of all developmental and operational testing and leads other APM (T and E)s. You will develop strategies that span cross domain solutions to test programs including integration of air segment, ship segment, landing systems, and information servicing networks. You will oversee the maintenance of all master test schedules and metrics and is responsible for integrating test issues across the Integrated Program Teams. You will plan, execute and report aspects for IPT test and evaluation efforts within the program office and responsible to ISEET for application and enforcement of appropriate test policies, processes and procedures. You will ensure that the test teams are appropriately staffed and that T and E competency leadership is kept engaged in testing.

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
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• 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.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or pass the test. You will be subject to random testing.
• This position is a designated Critical Acquisition Position (CAP). You must sign a three-year tenure agreement prior to assuming the position unless a tenure waiver is approved.
• Must obtain and maintain all required certification and/or license as a condition of employment.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level GS-12/13 or pay band DP-04 in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional GENERAL ENGINEER/PHYSICIST/OPERATIONS RESEARCH ANALYST/COMPUTER SCIENTIST. Specialized experience MUST demonstrate: : 1) Subject matter expert on all T&E matters and experience representing the Program Manager (PM) in meetings with DOT&E, CJCS, U.S. Army, OPNAV, and Operational Test Forces; 2) Knowledge of NAVAIR T&E policies; 3) Experience Chairing Test and Evaluation Working Integrated Product Team (WIPT) meetings, authoring Test and Evaluation Master Plans, and coordinating/executing Operational Test Readiness Reviews; 4) Develop T&E strategies that span cross domain solutions to test programs including integration of air segment, ground segment, ship segment, landing systems, and information servicing networks. *DAWIA Requirement: This position is Critical Acquisition Position (CAP) and is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) and has been identified as a Career Field T - Test and Evaluation at Level II-Practitioner. You must sign a three-year tenure agreement prior to assuming the position unless a tenure waiver is approved. You are responsible for meeting applicable DAWIA certification requirements, including maintaining currency in your career field. Additional information on certification requirements can be found online at http://icatalog.dau.mil/onlinecatalog/CareerLvl.aspx Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf 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 basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

A transcript must be submitted with your application if qualifying using education OR the position has an education requirement. See Required Documents for additional information.


FOR 0801
Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) 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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.

OR

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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org

OR

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 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.

OR

Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above)

OR

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 bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least one 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.


FOR 1310
A successfully completed a bachelor's degree or higher in physics, or a related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics. Courses must have included a fundamental course in general physics and, in addition, course in any of two of the following: electricity and magnetism, heat, light, mechanics, modern physics, and sound.
OR
Have a combination of education and experience with courses equivalent to a major in physics totaling at least 24 semester hours, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Courses must have included a fundamental course in general physics and, in addition, course in any of two of the following: electricity and magnetism, heat, light, mechanics, modern physics, and sound.

FOR 1515
A bachelor's or higher degree in operations research.

OR

Successfully completed a bachelor's or higher degree with at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics and at least 3 of the 24 semester hours are in calculus.

FOR 1550

A bachelor's degree in computer science.
OR
A bachelor's or higher degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of my 30 semester hours were in a combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus.

Contacts

• Address NAVTESTWINGLANT NWCF NAVTESTWINGLANT NWCF Patuxent River, MD 20670 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]