You will serve as the Senior Technical Expert for Test and Evaluation (Executive Director, Test and Evaluation) for Naval Test Wing Atlantic (NTWL), Naval Air Warfare Center's (NAWC's), Aircraft Division.

Duties

You will effectively communicate and lead teams of engineering and technical personnel on innovative processes and procedures. You will serve as the Navy technical expert, advisor and national leader for Flight Test Engineering and associated technologies in development, experimentation, evaluation of next- generation aircraft and mission systems and associated technologies. You will provide overall technical direction for developing processes and innovative approaches and procedures for test and evaluation planning, execution and results reporting for complex air vehicle and air systems. You will conduct technical reviews and assess soundness of technical objectives and will be responsible for aircrew safety and stewardship of scarce and one-of-a-kind national test assets. You will be responsible for safe, effective execution of tests, experiments, and demonstrations/evaluations involving Warfare Center aircraft. You will develop risk management alternatives and mitigation strategies and plans to ensure balance between technical requirements and system maturity. You will provide leadership for extremely complicated technical efforts for unproven technology insertion and engineering development programs. You will influence the development, management, and implementation of new or revised techniques for applied development and evaluation of aircraft and associated technologies that translate across program boundaries.

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
• 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.
• You will be required to complete ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, within 30 days of appointment.
• 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 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.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or fail the test. You will be subject to random testing.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

The applicant is to provide a separate narrative statement which describes fully, but concisely, how his/her experience supports each of the following Mandatory Technical Qualifications. Each technical qualification narrative should not exceed 2 pages. Failure to address these specific qualifications in a separate narrative statement will eliminate you from consideration: 1. Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Flight Test Engineering and associated technologies in development, experimentation, evaluation of next generation aircraft and mission systems and associated technologies. The ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems and calculating risks for the areas under the cognizance of flight test engineering. 2. Knowledge of DoD acquisition policy and strategy for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) solutions for Manned and Unmanned Aircraft and Aircraft Systems. Uses tools such as modeling and simulation, model based systems engineering, set-based design, and/or live virtual constructive environments in an RDTE setting. Ability to manage human, financial and information resources strategically. 3. Ability to provide national leadership to develop, influence and implement Manned and Unmanned Aircraft and Aircraft Systems Technology Development that will integrate key programmatic, DON, and DoD policies and goals. Ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization to meet Naval Test Wing Atlantic's (NTWL) flight test engineering organizational goals and to establish organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. 4. Capability to lead multiple and/or diverse teams representing RDT&E interests in DON/DoD Manned and Unmanned Aircraft and Aircraft Systems Technology Development. Ability to lead people toward meeting NTWL's vision, mission and goals while providing an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. 5. Ability to negotiate complex solutions within specialty areas with major stakeholders. Ability to build both internal and external coalitions. 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=GS-PROF AND 0801 Professional Engineering Series 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

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

For 0801 Professional Engineering Series:
A. Degree: Engineering. Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher engineering degree from an accredited college or university. 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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
-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:
(I) 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; or
(II) 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, and Puerto Rico; or
(III) 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; or
(IV) 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.)

An advanced degree of Master's or Ph.D. in one of the educational fields listed above is highly desirable.

Contacts

• Address NAVTESTWINGLANT NWCF NAVTESTWINGLANT NWCF Patuxent River, MD 20670 US
• Name: Dept of the Navy Executive Hiring
• Email: usn.seattle-wa.ochrsvdopscenwa.mbx.don-executive-hiring@us.navy.mil