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Duties

Serves as Deputy Director of ERDC, sharing responsibility for planning and conducting the technical research program necessary for accomplishment of the ERDC mission, which involves activities throughout the nation and at various overseas locations. Serves under the general direction of and receives broad strategic guidance from the ERDC Director and provides the senior civilian perspective and continuity of leadership to the workforce and stewardship of technical excellence. The emphasis is on both the appropriateness and quality of technical programs; in addition, sound business acumen is required for management of financial, material, information, and laboratory resources. Is actively concerned with the maintenance, development, and improvement of the stature of the ERDC as a scientific organization of national and international repute; its efficiency of operations, and use of the best available knowledge and resources; and its improvement and advancement of knowledge in assigned fields of work. Technical functions encompass oversight of basic and applied research, development, engineering, test and evaluation, post-deployment support, special technical support, and operational programs in support of USACE, Army, DoD, and the Federal government in accomplishing missions important to the national defense and well-being. Shares responsibility for advising and assisting the Commander, USACE on R&D initiatives and by supporting USACE's continuing objective of developing and maintaining a world-class scientific and engineering capability. Provides policy guidance for development, execution, and implementation of all R&D conducted by USACE. Develops and defends R&D investment strategy and provides execution oversight. Interfaces with Army, DoD, other services, a wide range of government agencies, and other national and international technology development and user groups. Formulates and interprets legislative initiatives relating to technology development and implementation requirements for both existing and emerging missions. Principal R&D mission areas include civil engineering, environment, water resources engineering, and the physical sciences as they relate to the USACE military and Civil Works missions. Civil engineering comprises conventional facilities, airfields and pavements, survivability and protective structures, and sustainment engineering. Environment comprises all aspects of environmental quality to include restoration, compliance, conservation, pollution prevention (relating to facilities operation), and regulatory functions related to navigable waters. Water resources comprise major Civil Works business areas such as flood control, navigation recreation, and hydropower. Physical sciences comprise topography, mapping, geospatial data management and application, winter and severe climatic conditions, oceanography, and the impact of environmental conditions on systems and operations. An overarching area is the exploitation of information technology to include direction of one of the DoD Major Shared Resource High Performance Computing Centers.

Requirements

Qualifications

**To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must show that you possess the five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs), Technical Qualification(s), and other qualifications, if applicable (such as Education - see below). Additional information on ECQs is available at http://www.opm.gov/ses/recruitment/ecq.asp. (1) Mandatory Executive Core Qualification (MANDATORY SUBMISSION) (ECQ) All applicants must submit written statements (narrative format) describing accomplishments that would satisfy the ECQs. Use the Challenge-Context-Action-Result (CCAR) Model to describe your accomplishments. You must address each ECQ separately. You are required to respond to all ECQs. Failure to do so, will result in an 'ineligible' rating. Each accomplishment should be clear, concise, and emphasize your level of responsibilities, the scope and complexity of programs managed, and results of your actions. Total ECQ write-up should not exceed 10 pages using 12pt, Arial or Times New Roman with 1-inch margins. Please Note: Current career SES members, former career SES members with reinstatement eligibility, and SES Candidate Development Program (CDP) graduates, who have been certified by the OPM do not need to address ECQs. However, Current or Former SES members must provide an SF-50 showing their status or reinstatement eligibility and Candidates who have successfully graduated from an OPM approved Candidate Development Program must submit a copy of their ECQ certification. 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. (2) MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION(S) (TQ): (MANDATORY SUBMISSION) A supplemental statement must be submitted separately addressing each TQ. Your TQ must provide specific examples that address relevant experience and accomplishments. Total TQ write-up should not exceed 2 pages per TQ using 12pt, Arial or Times New Roman with 1-inch margins. Applicants must reflect superior technical qualifications demonstrated through leadership and management in the following: TQ 1: Ability to formulate and direct policy that applies to a broad program of research, development, test, evaluation, and special technical support across a large, multi-disciplinary organization related to assessing, analyzing, predicting, and developing solutions through science and engineering.

Education

1. Education Basic 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.
   
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   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.)

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: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address EN-APF-W03GAA US ARMY ENGR RESEARCH & DEVELOPMT CTR DO NOT MAIL Washington, DC 20301 US
• Name: Rebecca Kelly
• Phone: (000)000-0000
• Email: [email protected]