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 toperform as joint posture program manager, consultant, and specialist for the Futures Division, Force Posture Strategy Branch. Incumbent provides A8X with professional and technical support in the identification and validation of facility requirements for major force posture changes and new mission beddowns.

Duties

PACAF/A8X Posture Plans Analyst, reporting to the Branch Chief of Force Posture as a direct liaison with the USINDOPACOM Joint Posture Management Office (JPMO), responsible for providing strategic appraisal, analysis, and recommendations pertaining to engineering support, operations, activities and investments as delineated in Theater Campaign Plans and Orders, Theater Posture Plans, Theater Logistics Plans, Operational Plans (OPLAN) and Enduring and Contingency Location Master Lists (ELML, CLML). Project Actions: Responsible for review and validation of construction project documents. POM Development: Responsible for review of PE's for assigned weapon systems as a facility consultant. Programming Plans: Responsible for review and coordination of Installation Support annexes to PACAF Programming Plans (PPlans) for PACAF/ASX signature, in coordination with other PACAF staff agencies.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Males must be registered for Selective Service, see www.sss.gov
• 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/
• This posn is subject to provisions of the DoD Priority Placement Program
• Disclosure of Political Appointments
• Recruitment Incentive may be authorized for this position
• Relocation Incentive may be authorized for this position
• Eligible for a Cost-of-Living-Allowance (COLA) which is subject to change without notice
• Travel by military and/ or civilian aircraft may be required in performance of duties.
• Must be able to able to obtain and maintain proper security clearance.
• This is a Drug Testing Designated Position (TDP).

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, Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Professional and Scientific Positions. Series 0801 BASIC REQUIREMENT: 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. NOTE: YOU MUST SUBMIT COPIES OF YOUR TRANSCRIPTS. 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)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. 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. 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.) NOTE: YOU MUST SUBMIT COPIES OF YOUR TRANSCRIPTS. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-12, or equivalent in other pay systems. Examples of specialized experience includes thorough knowledge of a wide range of engineering concepts, principles, and practices sufficient to act as the staff technical expert and consultant in the identification and programming of all basing and major force structure change facility requirements. This position is assigned/located in HQ P ACAF Futures Division, Force Posture Strategy Branch. Incumbent provides ASX with readily available consultant support in identification and validation of facility requirements. Comprehensive knowledge of the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS) to ensure facility funding requirements, O&M, UMMC, and MILCON, are correctly reflected and that corresponding appropriations for equipment and communications are properly sequenced. FEDERAL TIME-IN-GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT FOR GENERAL SCHEDULE (GS) POSITIONS: Merit promotion applicants must meet applicable time--in-grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year at the GS-12 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-13 level. TIG applies if you are in a current GS position or held a GS position within the previous 52 weeks. NOTE: Applicants applying as VEOA candidates who are current GS civil service employees or are prior GS civil service employees within the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements. 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: 1. Ability to recognize and analyze problems, conduct research, interpret, and apply rules, instructions, regulations, and procedures, summarize results, and make appropriate recommendations. 2. Knowledge of USAF, DoD, OSD, and 0MB budgetary policies, procedures, and objectives. 3. Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and maintain good working relations. 4. Ability to analyze, prepare studies, and present alternatives. 5. Ability to formulate, justify, and defend requirements. 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 JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam 655 Vickers Avenue JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI 96853 US
• Name: Total Force Service Center
• Phone: 1-800-525-0102
• Email: [email protected]