THIS POSITION WILL BE FILLED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE DOD QRB PILOT PROGRAM. This is a Senior Executive Service Tier 1 position. This position is in the Senior Executive Service, a small elite group of top government leaders. SES members possess a diverse portfolio of experiences including strong skills to lead across organizations. As an executive, you will influence the direction of innovation and transformation of the federal government and lead the next generation of public servants.

Duties

As the Chief Engineer, some of your typical work assignments may include: The incumbent's objective is to bring the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) into being in an effective and efficient manner by providing authoritative and technically sound direction over a broad spectrum of technical and programmatic issues. To accomplish these responsibilities the incumbent: Working with the BMDS System Engineer, provides, establishes, directs, and confirms technical approaches, baselines, and discipline of missile, test, radar, battle management and systems to effectively identify and resolve a broad spectrum of engineering technical issues and programmatic initiatives, while providing oversight, leadership, direction, and guidance to a multi-disciplinary staff on all related functional, operational, and engineering activities. Selects, directs and enforces industry missile defense weapons systems development, quality assurance and assures sufficient workmanship to meet stringent missile flight requirements. Ensures the appropriate level of program engineering, technical, and schedule assessment and evaluation activities and processes are implemented and sustained. Develops and leads weekly joint government and contractor forums to expedite disciplined technical issues identification and resolution. Manages the assessment and development of specific capabilities and integrates plans and schedules to meet critical deadlines within the MDA and with Component Program Offices and the Prime Contractors. Reviews formally controlled capability baselines and functional decomposition of system requirements. Determines requirements relationships and ensures traceability. Identifies and corrects ambiguous and incompatible software, missile and radar engineering system requirements. Resolves requirements development, risk tracking, engineering, and testing issues. Provides engineering assessments, advice, and recommendations to the Director for Engineering and other organizational elements, including element contractors and subcontractors. Maintains program oversight and monitors contractor performance to ensure compliance with cost and schedule via the Earned Value Management System {EVMS), critical path management and Integrated Baseline Reviews (IPR's). Provides on-going oversight of the Prime Contractor's program execution. Assesses program development progress and Technical Performance Measure. Directs technology and hardware/software planning, design, development, test and evaluation, architecture development, technology insertion, systems baseline and configuration control, and overall system risks, development, integration, and interoperability. Assists the Director for Engineering to summarize, measure, and focus upon key BMDS capabilities, vulnerabilities, risks, and development options. Conducts joint government and contractor independent reviews to assess the progress of all relevant programs, and to identify potential roadblocks, and works across the technical disciplines within the MDA to address issues. Defines, designs, integrates, validates and verifies the Elements contributions to the BMDS. Defines system /element/component capability specifications, internal and external interfaces, test objectives and requirement. Develops and assesses the concept of operations. Coordinates with other DoD organizations, other government agencies, the private industrial sector, academic research institutions, and allied defense establishments to leverage expertise, and provide guidance and oversight regarding product development activities. Represents the Director for Engineering, as required and serves as a senior spokesperson on matters related to technology development and application and engineering activities in a variety of high level forums. Routinely interacts with senior executives and general officer and flag officers within the Department of Defense, as well as with senior executives from national and international private sector industries, media representatives, academia, foreign officials, and staff members of Congress. The incumbent performs other comparable duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Work Schedule: Full Time
• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
• Resume and supporting documents (See How To Apply)
• Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation
• Veteran preference is not applicable to the Senior Executive Service
• Must be able to obtain/maintain Special Sensitive/Top Secret SCI clearance
• Designated and/or random drug testing is required
• Supplemental narrative addressing each Executive Core Qualification (ECQ) - 10 pages total
• Supplemental narrative addressing each Technical Qualification (TQ) - 2 pages each maximum
• Mobility Agreement: All newly appointed Career SES leaders must sign the Reassignment Rights obligations Agreement as a condition of appointment into the SES.
• Probationary Period: You will serve a one-year Senior Executive Service (SES) probationary period unless you previously completed the probationary period in the SES.
• Financial Disclosure: Senior Executives are required to comply with the provisions of the Ethics in Government Act, PL 95-521, which requires the submission of a financial disclosure statement (OGE-278), upon assuming an SES position.
• Senior Executives are required to complete a "Declaration of Federal Employment," (OF 306), prior to being appointed to determine your suitability for Federal employment and to authorize a background check.
• Overtime: None
• Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Tour of Duty: Set Schedule
• Telework: Situational telework eligible
• Travel to national and international locations may be required.

Qualifications

***THIS POSITION IS PART OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PILOT PROGRAM*** Please read this announcement in its entirety before applying. EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): Under the DoD Pilot Program, there is no requirement to prepare a narrative statement specifically addressing the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs). However, to meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must show that you possess the five Executive Core Qualifications within your resume - not to exceed five pages. Your application must also include a narrative statement specifically addressing the mandatory technical qualifications not to exceed a total of two pages. http://www.opm.gov/ses/references/guidetoSESQuals_2012.pdf Each accomplishment should be clear, concise, and emphasize your level of responsibilities; the scope and complexity of the programs, activities, or services you managed; program accomplishments; policy initiatives undertaken; level of contacts; the sensitivity and criticality of the issues you addressed; and the results of your actions. You should use action oriented leadership words to describe your experience and accomplishments (e.g., Led the development and implementation of....) and quantify your experience wherever possible to demonstrate your accomplishments (e.g., number of employees supervised; size of budget managed; amount of money saved, etc.). ECQ 1 - LEADING CHANGE: This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. ECQ 2 - LEADING PEOPLE: This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. ECQ 3 - RESULTS DRIVEN: This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. ECQ 4 - BUSINESS ACUMEN: This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. ECQ 5 - BUILDING COALITIONS: This core qualification involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (TQ): All applicants must submit written statements (narrative format) of accomplishments that would satisfy the technical qualifications. You must address each technical qualification separately. You are required to respond to all of the technical qualifications. If you fail to do so, you will be rated as ineligible. Please limit your written statements to 2 pages total. 1. Comprehensive knowledge and proven research, development, testing, system engineering and technical expertise required to direct and provide strategic planning, system integration, interoperability testing and evaluation, and engineering conceptual program assessments and reviews for a complex weapons development and acquisition program. 2. Demonstrated experience identifying and resolving a broad spectrum of engineering technical issues and programmatic initiatives, while providing oversight, leadership, direction, and guidance to a multidisciplinary staff on all related functional, operational, and engineering activities. 3. Demonstrated engineering and manufacturing experience working in or with industry or laboratory missile, command and control, sensor (radar and/or optical) technologies. Failure to meet any one of the technical qualifications requirements automatically disqualifies an applicant. DoD Joint Enterprise-Wide Experience Statement: In addition, DoD requires an Enterprise Perspective. This individual must have the ability to apply a broad point of view and an awareness and understanding of individual or organizational responsibilities in relation to DoD or government-wide strategic priorities is required. Executives must demonstrate ability to work with internal and external partners to support national security objectives. This perspective is typically gained through a variety of diverse work experiences. A separate narrative statement is not required. This information should be embedded within the application package (Resume and Technical Qualifications).

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this position.

Individual Occupational Requirements:

A. 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.
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)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.
2. 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.
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 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.
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 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: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise.

Contacts

• Address Missile Defense Agency Bldg 5222 Martin Rd Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898 US
• Name: DE Applicant Inquires
• Phone: 614-692-0420
• Email: [email protected]