You will serve as a SUPERVISORY INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER/SCIENTIST (Body Mounted & Survival Systems Branch Head) in the Aircrew Protection and Survivability Division and Human Systems Engineering Department of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV. The Branch Head is responsible for managing personnel, facilities, and processes related to research, development, test & evaluation, systems acquisition and product support for Naval Aviation integration of human systems.

Duties

You will lead research, development, and experimental investigations of complex operator-machine problems on new and reconfigured Naval aircraft weapons systems by managing the personnel and laboratory capabilities of the branch. You will review the substance of Technical Reports, Technical memoranda and other technical output of the professionals in the Branch. You will assist in exercising technical and administrative control of the Branch by making program assignments to Program Teams/Branches based on priorities, the difficulty or requirements of the assignments, and the capabilities of the employees. You will assign tasks, generally in broad terms as to the objectives to be met and consideration for coordination, and advise on applicability of technical data and methods of analysis that may assist in completing assigned work. You will manage Branch activities to assure adequate, coordinated, and timely execution. You will provide well-documented standards, processes, and procedures and continually provide training and certification programs to ensure that Branch personnel are current and proficient. You will assist in developing Branch funding plans for incorporation in the Division budgetary requirements for current and proposed programs as well as manage financial resources within the assigned budget. You will make official technical presentations to high-level DOD officials, engineers/scientists, NAVAIRWARCENACDIV staff personnel, foreign officers, and other high level civilian officers concerning the results of the work. You will provide overall management and technical direction of the assigned workforce, processes and products and facilities as they relate to man machine integration analysis and application related to naval aviation aircrew and maintainers. You will provide overall management and technical direction relating to protective / life support / crashworthy / mission enhancing equipment interfaces and integrations both man and aircraft mounted. You will provide overall management and technical direction relating to aviation habitability impacts to aircrew/passengers/maintainers full life cycle engineering, system integration, and sustainment support for Aircrew Life Support Systems (ALSS).

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.
• 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.
• 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 may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• Supervisors in the executive branch have a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. You will be required to review the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct at 5 CFR 2635.101.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-13/14) grade level or pay band (NM-04) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Directing the application of human engineering and integration, research, development, design analysis, test and evaluation, and in-service engineering to the integration of pilot/aircrew and their enabling technologies; 2) Planning, organizing, and conducting complete development, test, and evaluation programs in the area of complex operator-machine interfaces; 3) Emphasizing the development, test and evaluation, and sustainment support of life support equipment to effectively manage threats to aircrew and passengers during flight operations; 4) Providing strong leadership acumen to appropriately administer management policies and procedures and coordinating functions between various groups to accomplish intended goals with customer financial stewardship; and 5) Managing personnel, facilities, and processes related to research, development, test and evaluation, systems acquisition, and product support. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf 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

For Applicants of the 0413 series:

A bachelor's degree or higher: in one of the basic animal sciences or physiology; or a related discipline or field of science that included at least 24 semester hours in the basic animal sciences, of which 10 semester hours were in animal physiology.

Evaluation of Education: Courses such as anatomy; cytology; invertebrate and vertebrate zoology; embryology; entomology; animal, dairy, and poultry husbandry; nutrition; genetics; and physiology may be used to meet the 24-semester-hour requirement in the basic animal sciences.

Courses in physiology, animal or human physiology, cellular physiology, or courses that were well oriented toward animal or human physiology, e.g., some advanced courses in biochemistry, are qualifying as animal physiology courses. Courses in related fields such as cytology and microbiology (including microbial physiology) may also be qualifying, provided the course work dealt directly with the application of scientific principles underlying animal physiology, or with the methodology and techniques applied in animal physiology work.

For Applicants of the 0801 series:

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.

For Applicants of the 1301 Series:

A bachelor's degree or higher: 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

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.

For Applicants of the 1384 Series:

A bachelor's degree or higher: textile technology.

OR

Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in textile technology that included at least 20 semester hours in textile technology and closely related subjects, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

For Applicants of the 1515 Series:

A bachelor's degree or higher: in operations research; or at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus.

Contacts

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