Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below to view Eligibilities being considered and other IMPORTANT information. The primary purpose of this position is to broaden the skills and/or enhance the leadership perspective of an identified high- potential, mid-level manager; it is not a continuing position, assignment duration is NTE 36 months.

Duties

DUTY 1: Performs Career Broadening assignments/duties; performs multidisciplinary professional engineering work involved in the application of advanced theories, concepts, principles, and processes. Apply expert knowledge and mastery of advanced engineering theories, mission engineering, principles, concepts, standards, and methods to ensure assigned projects remain consistent with program objectives, costs, schedules, performance criteria, and existing policies. Plan, organize, direct, and coordinate significant and complex projects which represent critical segments of major operating programs. Demonstrate a mastery of, and skill in applying, innovative engineering practices, techniques, and methodology to identify, analyze, and resolve issues; ensure resolutions are consistent with program objectives. Researches, analyzes, and determines available options or the feasibility of different advanced approaches to resolve complex program issues; defines concepts and criteria for future programs or resolves major controversial problems in current programs. Provide consistent interpretation of existing guidance and presents innovative recommendations to alter standard practices, equipment, devices, processes, and known techniques. Formulate and develop new products and/or theories pertaining to new applications of existing products and assesses the impact of new technology on current systems and processes. Systematically apply expertise in engineering to create new or substantially improved equipment, materials, instrumentation, devices, systems, processes, techniques, and/or procedures. Apply experimental theories and new applications or developments to improve operations and/or resolve unique or complex/controversial problems, conditions, or issues. Administer the resources required to execute projects, and may readjust funding, schedules, and work based on project reviews. Specifically, executes standardized and disciplined developmental Systems Engineering processes. Grows the SSC Systems Engineering workforce to provide a robust government Systems Engineering capability. Develops the SSC Enterprise Systems Engineering Training plan. Interprets and integrates new test policy requirements into SSC acquisitions. Leads SSC's Systems and Digital Engineering Resource Investment Planning Process. DUTY 2: Carries out special projects and assignments designed specifically to meet the broadening intent of the position. Responsible for the complete development and implementation of studies based on general instructions. Plans and organizes broad complex studies, in correlation with senior technical advisor to the Director of Systems Engineering, Space Systems Integration Office on an extensive range of subjects related to Systems Engineering. Represents the concerns of the Air Force/Space Force at meetings and conferences; prepares staff studies and various documents to meet special needs; develops and presents oral presentations; leads and/or serves on steering committees. Advises and briefs AF/USSF senior leadership on program issues and results and provides logical courses of action. Provides guidance to staff members to ensure success of programs. DUTY 3: In a Career Broadening capacity, serves as a senior engineer/scientist for SSC space systems command programs. Provide engineering/ scientist and management support during all program phases beginning with concept studies, concept development, preliminary design, complete design, system demo, build and operations. Reviews, interprets and implement higher headquarters and interagency engineering/scientist policies, procedures, regulation and standards to assigned programs. Evaluates Group engineering/scientist management processes and implements improvements relative to engineering/scientist requirements. Actively participates and is the organization's voting representative on Acquisition Strategy Panels, Independent Readiness Reviews, Production Readiness Reviews, Source Selection Solicitation Review Boards, Failure Review Boards, Independent Program Assessment reviews and other Ad hoc groups as required. Leads the organization team on Request for Proposal Teams and selects, develops, and tailors engineering/scientist requirements for Statement of Objectives /Work, proposals instructions and other contractual documents. Provide technical engineering and management expertise to assigned program(s) contractors and contract administration offices. Monitors SSC contractors' engineering progress and compliance with requirements. Team leader in conducting technical evaluations of contractors' cost, technical and management proposals. Responsible as process owner for assuring the principles of the System Engineering/Configuration Management are applied throughout the systems lifecycle. Coordinates, evaluates, recommends, manages and makes final decisions at the reviews and approvals processes for engineering specifications and standards.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Mobility is a condition of employment; employee must sign an Air Force-wide mobility agreement.
• Position is designated special-sensitive (SS) and requires access to Sensitive Compartmented Info (SCI), other intel-related SS info, or involvement in Top Secret Special Access Programs (SAP) to perform the duties/responsibilities of the position.
• If authorized, PCS will be paid IAW JTR and AF Regulations. If receiving an authorized PCS, you may be subject to completing/signing a CONUS agreement. More information on PCS requirements, may be found at: https://afciviliancareers.com/regulatory/
• PCS cost will be paid IAW Career Broadening Policy under this agreement.
• Career Broadening positions are managed by AFPC/DPCZ and are centrally funded.
• Positions are established specifically to provide developmental experience designed to broaden the skills and/or enhance the leadership perspective of a high-potential, mid-level manager.
• Career Broadening also provides training and developmental opportunities at various organizational levels.
• These assignments offer the qualified candidate a unique assignment in that the candidates brings certain experience to the assignment while gaining new experiences in a different work environment.
• TEMPORARY PROMOTION: If the position is filled as a temporary promotion, upon completion of the career broadening assignment, the temporary promotion may lead to permanent promotion without further competition.
• This position requires drug testing.
• May be required to travel by military and/or civilian aircraft in the performance of official duties.
• May be required to work other than normal duty hours, which may include evenings, weekends and holidays.
• This position may be designated as an acquisition position. The incumbent may be required to acquire/maintain the appropriate certification(s) as an Engineering and Tech Management Practitioner.
• Disclosure of Political Appointments
• Males must be registered for Selective Service. Visit www.sss.gov to verify registration.

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, Professional and Scientific Positions. General Engineering Series 0801 (opm.gov) BASIC REQUIREMENTS: 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 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: 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. 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. 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. 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. FEDERAL TIME-IN-GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT FOR GENERAL SCHEDULE (GS) POSITIONS: Applicants must have served at least 52 weeks at the GS-13 or higher grade (or equivalent in an alternate pay system) within the Federal Civil Service to be considered for referral. TIG applies if you are in a current GS position or held a GS position within the previous 52 weeks. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas: Knowledge and mastery of a wide range of advanced multidisciplinary professional engineering and integration concepts, principles, practices, standards, methods, and techniques to apply experimental theories and new developments to problems not susceptible to treatment by accepted methods, and to plan and execute specialized programs of marked difficulty, responsibility, and significance. Knowledge of program planning and enterprise integration to execute major projects, provide expert advice to colleagues, and present innovative recommendations for advancing programs and/or enterprise decision making and requirements. Include Systems and Specialty engineering disciplines and Portfolio Enterprise Management, the latter specifically to translate Space Enterprise requirements into Portfolio Requirements and allocate to Programs/Demos/Prototypes to realize, establish and control technical baselines using Digital Engineering environment to realize Portfolio strategy, implement technical solutions in programs and support resource allocation & budgeting process, and allocate enterprise objectives that align with Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) initiatives to achieve interoperability, efficient integration, and operational resilience. Skill and ability to research, evaluate, interpret, and apply rules, regulations, and procedures to a variety of situations and to recommend timely and economical solutions. Skill in conducting regular or periodic reviews of subordinate organization programs and evaluating results to assess accomplishment of USSF program requirements. Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and with technical accuracy, both orally and in writing, as well as work in a professional manner with peers, management, contractors, academia, and other agencies. PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week. VOLUNTEER WORK EXPERIENCE: Refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (i.e., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student and social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge and skills that can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

IF USING EDUCATION TO QUALIFY: If position has a positive degree requirement or education forms the basis for qualifications, you MUST submit transcriptswith the application. Official transcripts are not required at the time of application; however, if position has a positive degree requirement, qualifying based on education alone or in combination with experience, transcripts must be verified prior to appointment. An accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education must accredit education. Click here to check accreditation.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.

Contacts

• Address AF Career Broadeners 550 C Street W JBSA Randolph AFB, TX 78150 US
• Name: Career Broadening Office
• Email: [email protected]