You will serve as a Supervisory Contract Specialist in the CONTRACT AND LOGISTICS DEPARTMENT (CODE 400) of PORTSMOUTH NAVAL SHIPYARD.

Duties

You will serve as a Contracting Officer with unlimited signatory authority and as principal acquisition advisor to the Shipyard Commander, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. You will direct the full range of contract procurement and administration actions. You will delegate, review, approve, and coordinate the work and work products of subordinate Contracting Officers, Contract Specialist, Purchasing Agents, Contract Officer Representatives, and other contract administrators. You will plan, develop and establish long and short range procurement and contracting plans, strategies, and approaches for overall ship repair and acquisitions and life cycle programs. You will provide advice, coordinate and approve work performed by the Navy and contractor program participants, including cost estimating, cost accounting and establishment of award fees and life cycle costing. You will ensure that manpower and material costs are directly linked to program/mission objectives, that expenditures remain within approved budget levels, and that positions and/or organizational structures promote maximum efficiency and economy. You will perform other duties as assigned.

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.
• 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.
• 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 a Defense Acquisition Workforce position that requires a Contracting, Foundational acquisition certification in accordance with DoD Instruction 5000.66. The incumbent has 36 months to obtain this certification and must maintain it.
• Acquisition Workforce (AWF) members must complete 80 hours of Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) every two (2) years, in accordance with DoDI 5000.66.
• 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.
• You will be required to complete ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, within 30 days of appointment.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-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: Experience directing the full range of contract procurement and administration actions, including source selection decisions, sole source justifications and approvals, contract awards, issuance of contract modifications, pre-award surveys, cost and price analysis, technical analysis of contractor's performance, resolution of contract disputes; Experience managing and coordinating activities in order to maintain the status of, and to control various contractual actions occurring concurrently to ensure that these actions take place in a timely manner; Experience negotiating (including face-to-face dealings) complex business transactions that include detailed cost and price analysis using recognized statistical techniques; Experience utilizing the Standard Procurement Systems (SPS) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as they relate to the electronic acquisition process, as well as the Federal Procurement Data System - New Generation (FPDS-NG), Wide Area Workflow (WAWF) and Electronic Data Exchange; Experience planning and assigning work to be accomplished by subordinates, evaluating performance of subordinates, giving advice, counsel or instruction to individual employees on both work and administrative matters, and identifying training needs of employees supervised; Experience applying detailed price and cost analysis principles and basic accounting practices related to contract proposal evaluation and contract administration. Applicant must meet the following Department of Defense qualification requirements for 1102 contracting positions: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/DoD_Qualification_Standard_For_GS-1102.pdf And the title 10 requirements found here: http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1724&num=0&edition=prelim 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 Requirement of the Department of Defense Qualification Standard for Contracting Positions:

A bachelor's degree from an accredited educational institution authorized to grant baccalaureate degrees.

NOTE: The education requirement listed above applies only to individuals entering DoD GS-1102 positions on or after October 1, 2000. Current civilian personnel in DoD who occupied GS-1102 positions or contracting positions with authority to award or administer contracts above the simplified acquisition threshold in an Executive Department on or before September 30, 2000 are exempt from meeting this requirement. Current military members who occupied a similar occupational specialty to the GS (or equivalent) 1102 or before September 30, 2000 are also exempt from meeting this requirement. Applicants currently in the Contingency Contracting Force are also exempt from meeting this requirement.

Contacts

• Address PORTSMOUTH NAVAL SHIPYARD HRO Building 44/1 Portsmouth, NH 03804-5000 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]