Over 1 Million Paying Vacancies Available. Discover Your Dream Vacancy with Us!

Are you looking for a Chief Engineer - Space Domain Awareness? We suggest you consider a direct vacancy at United States Space Force Forces in Peterson AFB. The page displays the terms, salary level, and employer contacts United States Space Force Forces person

Job opening: Chief Engineer - Space Domain Awareness

Salary: $119 000 - 181 966 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Sep 11 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
To submit your resume for this Direct Hire opportunity click here. For additional information on other USSF direct hire opportunities visit the Air Force Civilian Careers Space Force website and follow USSF on LinkedIn.

Duties

Space Domain Awareness is a condition critical for everything that the United States Space Force does in defending the nation. As the Chief Engineer for the Space Domaine Awareness (SDA) Acquisition Delta, you will sustain, improve, and acquire half of the USSF capability to sense what is happening in the Domain. Collaborate with multiple USSF and Mission Partner offices and functions to advance your system engagement. Ideal candidate: Acquisition engineering experience which involved leading teams and participating in milestone technical reviews, integration readiness reviews, test readiness reviews, qualification and verification reviews, configuration audits, and independent analysis activities for complex systems is highly valued. Professional Engineering (PE) certification is desirable. Key Skills and Abilities: 1. Knowledge of a wide range of advanced multidisciplinary professional engineering concepts, principles, practices, standards, methods, and techniques to apply experimental theories and new developments to problems not susceptible to treatment by accepted methods, and to plan and execute specialized programs of marked difficulty, responsibility, and significance. 2. Knowledge of the mission, roles, functions, organizational structure, and operation of the DoD, and organizations that govern, interface with, and/or influence systems acquisition, development, and/or sustainment; and knowledge of planning, programming, and budgeting cycles, financial systems, and restrictions on expenditure of funds. 3. Knowledge of and skill in evaluating state-of-the-art and advancements in theory, application, technology, and policy affecting systems being developed, and in planning, organizing, and directing the functions and staff in critical aspects of development, production, and/or support of systems, subsystems, or equipment. 4. Knowledge of safety, security, personnel management, and EEO regulations, practices, and procedures. 5. Skill in establishing and maintaining effective relationships, building consensus and coalitions, negotiating, and resolving conflicts with a variety of individuals and organizations as well as communicating effectively, both orally and in writing. 6. Ability to plan, organize, and direct the functions of an organization, and mentor, motivate, and appraise the staff through subordinate supervisors as well as analyze, plan, and adjust work operations of one or more organizational segments to meet program requirements and objectives within available resources.

Requirements

  • U.S. Citizenship Required
  • Work may occasionally require travel away from normal duty station on military or commercial aircraft.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a TOP-SECRET security clearance.
  • This position is eligible for situational telework (2-4 days per pay period).
  • PCS and incentives are authorized.

Qualifications

This position is covered by the OPM Individual Occupational Requirements for General Engineering series 0801 and Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Professional and Scientific Positions and can be found here.

Education

Basic Educational Requirements

Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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.

Contacts

  • Address USSF - United States Space Force Forces 1670 Space Force Pentagon Washington, DC 20330 US
  • Name: US Space Force Enterprise Talent Management
  • Email: [email protected]

Map

Similar vacancies

GENERAL ENGINEER Jul 16 2024
$125 242 - 162 817

DUTY 1 Performs Career Broadening (CB) assignments designed to enhance and develop leadership competencies and business skills in the civil engineer functional community. Develops, publishes, manages...

GENERAL ENGINEER Sep 23 2024
$89 128 - 115 863

Performs planning and design work for substantial multi-phase new construction, renovations, and improvement projects for real property facilities, including utility systems, utilizing a professiona...

GENERAL ENGINEER Aug 10 2023
$84 686 - 110 092

1. Performs planning and design work for substantial multi-phase new construction, renovations, and improvement projects for real property facilities, including utility systems, utilizing a profession...