About the Position: This position is with the U.S. Army Reserve Command, Office of the Chief of Staff, Continuous Process Improvement Office located at Fort Liberty, North Carolina.

Duties

Plan continuous improvement initiatives for the Army Reserve. Advisor on continuous improvement initiatives, specifically Lean Six Sigma (LSS). Serve as the lead for CPI/ robotic process automation, develop software robots for suitability of process automation. Evaluate current methods, techniques, and systems; undertakes studies; and provides the necessary leadership skills to improve and adopt new methods and procedures. Oversee the analysis of functional business processes and procedures to determine suitability of robotic process automation (RPA) solutions from ideation to robot deployment. Negotiate effectively with management to accept and implement recommendations which may require extensive changes to policy and procedures and may be in conflict with the organization or activity studies. Conduct complicated and comprehensive analytical studies of organizations or significant segments of major management functions in order to improve internal work processes and organizational structures. Collect and analyze pertinent organizational data and information; develops statistical and narrative data to justify any process changes or recommendations. Provide guidance, monitor team members performance, provide leadership, advice and counsel on project objectives. Establish project charters and milestones for approved projects, document business processes to replicate automation, obtain authority to operate, manage user acceptance testing, and deploy software robots from a production to live environment. Evaluate processes for automation determining feasibility for automation development.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification within six months of employment.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Department of Army Civilian Employees In order to qualify, you must meet the 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. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes conducting strategic assessments, reviewing and analyzing organization missions and structures, conducts comparative, quantitative, qualitative analysis; Gathering, interrupting, analyzing and correlating large amounts of narrative and statistical data; identifying and developing procedures that improve the workflow and the elimination of unnecessary tasks; and designing, planning and conducting methods and procedures, engineered time standards, interrelated substantive work processes or functions, working knowledge of integrating process improvement and robotic process automation technologies and working inside an RPA, preferred experience would be working with Advana, UiPath or Power Automate. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12). 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. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Developing OthersInfluencing/NegotiatingPlanning and EvaluatingProblem SolvingStrategic ThinkingTechnical Credibility Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-12).

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address DE-APF-W47AAA US ARMY RESERVE COMMAND DO NOT MAIL Fort McCoy, WI 54656 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk