This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: This position is located at the Space and Missile Defense Technical Center (SMDTC), US Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC), Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

Duties

Oversee a workforce of government scientist, engineers, and technical professionals encompassing directed energy, multifunction RF, electronic warfare, and space applications. Responsible for establishing, maintaining, and integrating strategic technology roadmap for technology investments. Responsible for ensuring scientific rigor in all research and technology investments. Mentor staff in the genesis, conduct, presentation, and documentation of the research enterprise within DOD and larger academic and industrial communities. Collaborate with industry, academia and international partners to remain at the state of the art level for leading science and technology. Participate in developing Directorate and overall Command policies, aims and objectives. Ensure that research and development activities are integrated across all functional programs to solve issues of concern to the customers, the Department of Defense, and the Nation. Responsible for planning, programming, and budgeting for science and technology efforts in directed energy, space and high altitude, multi-function radio frequency, electronic warfare for missile defeat. Develop a significantly large multi-million dollar budget annually. Serve as a distinguished technical expert in design, development, integration, and delivery of war fighter capabilities both within and outside of the Department of the Army. Responsible for the overall internal organizational activities required to meet mission objectives. Manage program development, markets concepts and capabilities to potential customers and proponents, and oversees the technical direction and quality, cost, schedule and deliverable.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position requires up to 25% TDY (Temporary Duty Travel).
• This position is a Testing Designated Position (TDP) subject to applicant testing and random drug testing.
• This position requires incumbent to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.

Qualifications

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 for the Engineering Series 0800: A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) 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. 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), 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) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. 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 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. Basic Requirement for the Physical Scientist Series 1301: A. Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. OR B. Combination of Education and Experience: education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) Technical and program management skills in one or more of the following areas: Design, development and integration of missile and aviation systems. 2) Planning difficult, highly technical programs of national significance. 3) Executing specialized programs that show outstanding attainments in the field of research or consultation. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (DB-04/GS-15).

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/

Contacts

• Address BK-APF-W4T8AA US ARMY SPACE & MISSLE DEFENSE CMD DO NOT MAIL Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
• Email: [email protected]