You will serve as a SUPERVISORY GENERAL ENGINEER in the CHIEF TECHNOLOGY AND STRATEGIC OPERATIONS OFFICE of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV.

Duties

You will maintain the day-to-day SBIR/STTR Phase I and II activities within NAE. You will review and approve all contractual documentation. You will provide feedback to NAWCAD Chief Technology Officer, MAO Groups/Depts and Echelon IVs, programs, and industry representatives regarding evaluation results. You will provide briefings to high-level management to offer guidance on controversial and policy issues attendant to the SBIR Program and to government and industry personnel to inform and solicit participation in the program. You will facilitate the transition of SBIR technologies to the programs, OEMs, and other agencies. You will maintain a corporate SBIR database of completed and ongoing SBIR/STTR projects and report in a timely manner congressionally mandated information. You will respond to Congressional and other inquiries regarding the status of particular projects within the SBIR/STTR Program. You will provide a direct interface with the Navy SBIR and STTR Manager. You will develop and implement a selection process for SBIR/STTR proposals.

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.
• This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Acquisition Functional Area and category assigned to the position is required within established category timeframes.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• Supervisors in the executive branch have a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. You will be required to review the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct at 5 CFR 2635.101.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13/14 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1.) Expert knowledge of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program to include the processes, policies, objectives and activities, as well as organizational interrelationships with other NAVAIR components, Navy SYSCOMS, and other Agencies, and program participants. 2.) Expert knowledge of Federal, DoD, Navy and NAE policies, processes and procedures concerning organizational management roles pertinent to achievement of the NAWCAD mission, such as Science and Technology (S&T) program planning, Research and Development (R&D) needs, and information systems management.3.)Substantive knowledge of various technologies to provide examination and assessment of a wide spectrum of candidate Research and Development projects to determine the degree to which potential projects address critical military needs and to plan and execute as the technologies developed. 4.) Substantive experience in planning, financial management, contractual procedures, and policy writing in accordance with guidelines imposed by DoD/NAVCOMPT to effectively manage the program. 5.) Knowledge of and demonstrated skill in applying, adapting and extending analytical techniques, including literature searches, flowcharting of work processes, metrics, and other program evaluation techniques, in order to inform and advise program leadership. 6.) Ability to plan, direct, coordinate and integrate organization management efforts and initiatives. 7.) Substantive experience briefing and communicating at executive leadership levels. 8.) Knowledge of information systems and databases required to manage information via Navy and NAVAIR websites and databases, including STAIRS and the Navy's Program Management Data Base (PMDB). 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:

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.

Contacts

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