This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for STRL Mission Support position to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: This position supports Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center's (DEVCOM SC) competency of Aerial Delivery.

Duties

Supervising professional engineering projects/assignments and teams. Design and/or evaluate aerial delivery systems for delivery of cargo and Warfighters to the point of need through World-class research, prototyping, development, and testing. Test and evaluate materials for new Aerial Delivery Division (ADD) applications. Ensure the ADD is resourced to meet the Soldier Center technical strategy. Works with the others to shape ADD research areas of interest and areas in which to expand. Aids in seeking out new partnerships across DoD, Allied Nations, Industry and Academia, and foster positive new ADD relationships. Directly responsible for ADD activities and for ensuring coordination and communication across all stakeholders. Multi-dimensional investigations to include integration with human physiology considerations including biomechanics and flight physiology. Directly responsible for ADD activities and for ensuring coordination and communication across all stakeholders. Analyzing management problems and providing advice and insight about the probable effects of alternative solutions to these problems.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• Three-year trial/probationary period may be required.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• This is an Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Workforce position.
• Selectees must meet position requirements for certification at Practitioner Level in the Acquisition Career Field Engineering and Technical Management within 60 months of entrance on duty.
• One-year Supervisory trial/probationary period may be required.
• This position requires you to submit a Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE 278) or a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
• This position requires a Top Secret Security Clearance.
• This position is subject to a pre-employment drug test screening, and random testing thereafter.
• This position requires a 3-year tenure agreement. Incumbent must sign DD Form 2888 (Critical Acquisition Position Service Agreement) and execute, as a condition of employment, a written tenure agreement.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Soldier Center is participating in an alternative personnel system known as the Laboratory Personnel Demonstration Project. The DB-04 pay band is equivalent to the GS-14 step 1 to GS-15 step 10 level. In order to qualify, you must meet the education/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. Transcripts are required to verify the Basic Education Requirements. All applicants must submit transcripts, Basic Requirement for Engineering (0800 Series): 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. Basic Requirement for Physical Scientist Position 1301: A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. OR B. Combination of Education and Experience: Courses equivalent to one of the majors, as shown in A above, that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Basic Requirement for Lead Operations Research Analyst 1515: Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in operations research; or a 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. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the specialized experience requirement listed below. Specialized Experience: In addition to the basic education requirements for the disciplines identified above, applicant must also meet the one year of specialized experience in the following for the position. Specialized experience is defined as: 1) Leading or executing a Department of Defense Aerial Delivery Research and Development project or program; AND 2) Current knowledge of Aerial activities Research and Development across the Department of Defense; AND 3) Supervising and/or Leading performance of work of subordinates in an engineering or scientific field; AND 4) Managing the responsibilities for very critical and/or highly complex programs or projects; AND 5) Participating and/or managing fiscal responsibilities associated with the scope of projects assigned. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service DB-03.

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-W1D1AA US ARMY COMBAT CAPABILITIES DEV CMD DO NOT MAIL Natick, MA 01760 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk