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Duties

Duties involve development, management, and leadership of an innovative, high-payoff extramural basic research program through employing grants and contracts in the scientific area of synthesis & processing of materials to exploit scientific opportunities and achieve breakthroughs and discoveries with the goal of opening new areas of scientific study and enabling superior technological capabilities for the U.S. Army. Acts as Army's lead advocate for basic research in synthesis & processing of structural and functional materials. Maintains the awareness of recent progress in these areas and conducts workshops, conferences etc. to identify and promote new scientific ideas and directions. Prioritizes and funds the ideas that could have maximum potential for long term impact. Cultivates and coordinates relationships between DoD/Army, and extramural basic research communities including universities and industry to affect transition of research findings into current and future Army systems. Publicizes Army research and technology needs and evaluates status of research initiatives for long term benefit. Ensures synthesis & processing program is innovative, unique, cohesive, coordinated, and Army relevant while actively exploiting the opportunities to leverage core funds with external collaborations. The U. S, Army Research Laboratory conducts foundational research in support of U.S. Army Modernization Strategy and is focused on disruptive science and technology for the long term; performing research to answer the hardest S&T questions for future Army capabilities. This position is in the Sciences of Extreme Materials Branch at the DEVCOM ARL Army Research Office (ARO) to manage extramural basic research efforts in Synthesis & Processing of Materials program.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position requires the incumbent be able to obtain and maintain a determination of eligibility for a Secret security clearance or access for the duration of employment.
• This position requires pre-employment financial disclosure and annually.
• This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 25% of the time.
• Term employment is subject to a three-year trial/probationary period.

Qualifications

DHA for Candidates with Advanced Degrees for Scientific and Engineering Positions Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. BASIC REQUIREMENT: Basic Requirement for the Materials Engineer (0806) and Mechanical Engineer (0830): A. 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. OR B. Combination of education and experience -- 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: 1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, 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. 2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 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. 3. 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. 4. 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.) In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Your resume must clearly describe at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the DB-02, higher-end of the Pay Band equivalent to GS-11 level in the Federal service which includes (1) Performing direct basic research in the area of materials science & engineering with emphasis in any of the following areas: synthesis & processing of structural/functional materials, materials property characterization, and modeling; (2) Providing analysis or advisement on projects in emerging cross-disciplinary materials synthesis & processing areas such as synthetic biology, computation assisted materials development; and (3) Communicating in writing or orally the impact of organizational programs to peers and higher authorities.

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications.

***NOTE: TRANSCRIPTS ARE REQUIRED even if you are a current federal employee. ***

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Contacts

• Address FN-W26203 US ARMY COMBAT CAPABILITIES DEV CMD DO NOT MAIL Durham, NC 27703 US
• Name: Wanda Wilson
• Phone: 000-000-0000
• Email: [email protected]