You will serve as a Supervisory General Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Computer Engineer, Electronics Engineer, Aerospace Engineer in the Digitial Analytics Infrastructure and Technology, Advance Group (DAiTA), Prototyping Instrumentation Experimentation Department, of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV. This position serves as the Division Head and Senior Acquisition Analyst of the in the Acquisition Support Division AD4400M.

Duties

You will plan work and prepare performance plans covering work to be accomplished by subordinates and prepare schedules for completion of work. You will evaluate work performance of subordinates and recommend official performance ratings. You will identify developmental and training needs of employees and provide or arrange for needed development and training. You will provide consultant services to NAWCAD and NAVAIR personnels. You will lead/supervise a large complex organization and direct multi-disciplinary professional team efforts.

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 is a designated Critical Acquisition Position (CAP). You must sign a three-year tenure agreement prior to assuming the position unless a tenure waiver is approved.

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 pay band (NM-04) or grade level (GS-13/14) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following. Examples of specialized experience include: 1) Developing contract Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Procurement Initiation Documents (PIDs), and developing program and/or organizational acquisition strategies to include but not limited to Contract Portfolio Management and organic procurement methods; 2) Developing organizational policies and creating high performing teams to execute those policies; 3) Assigning work to subordinates based on priorities and recommending official performance ratings; 4) Demonstrating working knowledge of acquisition management including Acquisition Analyst specific portals and tools, Automated Procurement Processing, Integrated Enterprise Environments, and Contractor Performance Assessment Reports; 5) Carrying out the full range of combined technical and administrative supervisory duties including effective personnel conflict resolutions, mentoring, performance evaluations, and award recommendations; 6) Resolving technical problems, reviewing work and providing answers to employees' and/or supervisors' questions; and 7) Developing plans and making written and oral presentations for the stakeholders on project status, technical problems, scheduling, and costs. Additional education and qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management websites: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series 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.

NOTE: YOUR RESUME REFLECTS THAT YOU COMPLETED SUCH EDUCATION AND/OR YOU HAVE SUBMITTED COLLEGE TRANSCRIPT(S) AS EVIDENCE TO SUBSTANTIATE YOUR CLAIM IN COMPLETING SUCH EDUCATION FOR THIS POSITION. ALSO, YOU UNDERSTAND THAT IF YOU DO NOT PROVIDE SUCH INFORMATION, THEN YOU COULD BE RATED AS LACKING EDUCATION REQUIREMENT(S) FOR THIS POSITION.

Additional education and qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management websites:

• https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf
• https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/physics-series-1310/
• https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/operations-research-series-1515/
• https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/computer-science-series-1550/

Contacts

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