You will serve as a SUPERVISORY INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER/COMPUTER SCIENTIST in the Range Systems Department of PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY.

Duties

You will serve as the Range Systems Department Head, Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), the largest instrumented, multi-dimensional training and testing range in the world. You will provide the management, operation, and maintenance of complex of state-of-the-art sensors and C4I systems in support of Fleet Training and Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT_E) programs. You will perform systems engineering, acquisition and development, installation, integration, test and evaluation, certification, acceptance, configuration, integrated logistics, operation and maintenance, modernization, and life-cycle management. You will oversee life-cycle management of the range instrumentation and infrastructure complex, tracking and surveillance radars, telemetry, flight termination, underwater, data processing, networks, optical and communications systems. You will direct the provision of data processing and software support for testing, evaluation, and certification of new systems You will solicit proposals, determine costs, obtain required funding, address all environmental and logistical concerns, address site requirements, installation and checkout, and integration into the range instrumentation complex. You will ensure that the Operations and Maintenance contractor maintains configuration control of all PMR F assets, and establishes baselines for all new systems. You will provide guidance and direction to department personnel in the development of Concepts of Operation ( CON OPS) for range instrumentation support, instrumentation operating parameters, and other details of operational support requirements. You will prepares and submit annual departmental budget requirements for both developmental and Operations and Maintenance programs, plus costs for technical assistance/contracts/maintenance, and installation and acceptance of new systems. You will represent PMRF at conferences, symposiums, and meetings with high ranking officials of federal, state, foreign governments, corporate executives. You will discuss, negotiate, and resolve complex technical and funding issues regarding range instrumentation and/or infrastructure requirements and operational support requirements.

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.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or fail the test. You will be subject to random testing.
• 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

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-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: applying professional engineering or scientific theories, concepts, and principles to analyze program requirements for the development and implementation of range instrumentation (e.g., radar, optical, telemetry, target control, command destruct, underwater tracking systems, networks, communications, sensors) and infrastructure support plans (e.g., systems engineering, acquisition, development, installation, integration, testing, certification, configuration, lifecycle management, budgeting) for supportability of command mission and goals. 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 08XX IOR: General Engineering Series 0801 (opm.gov) 1550 IOR: Computer Science Series 1550 (opm.gov) 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 positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess

08XX:
Successful completion of a bachelor's degree (or higher) in engineering. 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
A combination of 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: (I) 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; or (II) 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 (III) Specified academic courses: 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 (IV) 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 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.

1550:
Successful completion of a bachelor's degree in computer science.
OR
Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of my 30 semester hours were in a combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus.

Contacts

• Address PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY Bldg 105 PMRF Kekaha, HI 96752 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]