The United States Capitol Police (USCP) safeguards the Congress, Members of Congress, employees, visitors, and Congressional buildings and grounds from crime, disruption, and terrorism. We protect and secure Congress so it can fulfill its constitutional and legislative responsibilities in a safe, secure and open environment.

Duties

The position is located in the U.S. Capitol Police, Office of the Assistant Chief of Police for Protective and Intelligence Operations, Security Services Bureau (SSB), Technical Countermeasures Division (TCD). TCD is responsible for Technical Surveillance Countermeasures inspections and evaluations of the Legislative Branch, including both the office spaces on the Capitol Complex and district and state offices. TCD personnel conduct periodic technical inspections before sensitive and classified briefings in areas that store, process, and discuss national security information. As a Supervisory Electronics Engineer, the incumbent identifies and neutralizes technical penetration and vulnerabilities that could potentially compromise sensitive and national security information for the U.S. Congress. This position requires an incumbent to obtain and maintain a Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance (TS/SCI), a 'Q' clearance, and a nationally recognized Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) certification. Supervises a technical and professional-level staff; provides occupational specific technical and administrative direction to three or more subordinate employees performing the work and functions of the organization; and provides technical oversight of work on a continuous basis. Supervises and directs the operations of the staff by planning and assigning work based on management priorities, employee capabilities, and schedules. Obtains resources and identifies strategic objectives for the organization. Provides leadership and guidance to ensure staff efforts are appropriately directed to provide continuing analysis of related program areas; identifies opportunities for improvement and recommend appropriate action to implement enhancements. Provides employee resources and information that ensures a safe and healthy work environment. Plans, directs and evaluates high-level functions and activities assigned; develops or provides changes to internal procedures and policies to meet workload demands and changes; and provides effective and efficient workflow of all functions assigned. Manages and resolves employee and labor relations issues. Resolves problems and implements policies and procedures geared toward enhancing employee morale. Encourages and acts upon employee suggestions to ensure workplace improvements. Establishes security policies and procedures for staff that govern the evaluation and installation of protection systems and devices that ensure that sensitive information, equipment, technologies and other materials at the U.S. Capitol are not compromised. Manages, directs, tests, assists with the design, coordinates, and integrates multiple radio frequency (RF) and other technical security systems and programs under development in TCD and with private industry. Develops long-range plans in connection with prospective changes in technical security function and programs in TCD. Determines if technical security systems provide adequate protection, and ensures adequacy of control systems, recommends corrective actions and adjusts systems as necessary. Analyzes, formulates, develops and recommends long-range technical security resource and related support requirements for TCD. Directs TCD staffing conducting a continuing program of inspections and evaluation to determine the adequacy and effectiveness of TCD controls in place at the Capitol Complex and recommends necessary changes related to the enhancement of the TCD's program. Analyzes complex and difficult problems or interrelated issues in developing and maintaining relationships with various stakeholders in Congressional offices, private industry, and other government agencies. Participates as a member on interagency committees or in national security organizations involved in reviewing, analyzing, developing, and issuing national policy directives and drafting legislation affecting security policies and programs throughout the Government and private sectors. Independently plans and carries out a wide variety of tasks, and participates as liaison personnel in the planning and execution. Develops and implements plans designed to enhance relationships with targeted stakeholders. Plans and conducts briefings and other Congressional community relations activities in support of organizational programs that provide the results of inspections and recommendations to address issues. Coordinates the development release of briefing materials; coordinates the final review of materials with the appropriate legal, technical, and management staff to ensure accuracy and suitability of release; and formulates policies and procedures governing the organization's liaison activities.

Requirements

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. For the CP-12/GS-14 you must have one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to at least the CP-11/GS-13 which is in or directly related to the line of work of the position to be filled, and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience include the planning, execution, and instrumentation of electronics engineering tests; providing engineering support for tests, assessments, experiments and system evaluations; coordinating and directing the activities of engineers in the operation and maintenance of advanced hardware and facilities; assessing the vulnerability of systems and subsystems; and developing analytical methods, tools, standards, and models and simulations used in electronics engineering and test planning. AND A. Degree: Professional 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 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 the applicant with (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: 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; or 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, and Puerto Rico; or 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 the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A; or 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 bachelor's 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. Applicants that previously applied to Req#285 need not re-apply for consideration. All eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date (10/06/2023) of the vacancy announcement. (Information on Qualification & Education are located at the following link: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/)

Education

See Qualifications Section.

Contacts

• Address SSB - Technical Countermeasures Division 119 D Street NE Washington, DC 20510 US
• Name: Yetreta Lomax
• Phone: (202) 593-3370
• Email: [email protected]