About the Position: This position is located in Warren, Michigan, and is within the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC-GVPM). This position serves as a Division Chief under the Ground Vehicle Power & Mobility Associate Director (AD), focused on providing Ground Vehicle Power & Mobility Test & Evaluation (T&E) support to all of Team Warren.

Duties

Serve as a Division Chief (Engineering) providing direct technical, programmatic, and managerial support. Serve as alternate to a manager of high rank or level, sharing the direction of all phases of the organization's program and work or program responsibilities with the manager. Demonstrate professional proficiency in engineering disciplines such as systems engineering, software development, project/technical management, architecture, development processes, configuration management, and/or integration test infrastructure. Provide leadership, oversight, mentoring and management of various product and/or service teams engaged in research, development and/or engineering. Participate in strategic planning for area of responsibility and implement assigned strategic objectives with a focus on improving operations to include decreased turn-around time, streamlining work processes, and enhancing customer service. Recommend the establishment or abolishment of teams to the Associate Director (AD) to meet overall objectives. Assign, oversee, and review the work of assigned teams, resolving technical and/or operating problems. Oversee budgets managed and executed by teams. Assure integration, collaboration, and coordination within the business area and across internal and external organizations. Represent the organization and the command at high level conferences and meetings, participating in interagency technical planning and standards committees and seminars of national and international importance. Serve as a direct, first-line supervisor to two or more Supervisory Branch Chiefs within the Division and second-line supervisor to several associates within the organization. Interview, select, manage, develop, train, mentor, and resolve performance or disciplinary issues of subordinate employees using sound management principles. Maintain a safe work environment, addressing allegations of noncompliance and incorporating Composite Risk Management in processes and operation of the work unit. Execute Management Controls for the work unit and review standard operating procedures and certifications.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• A three-year probationary/trial period may be required.
• This is a Defense Acquisition Workforce (AWF) position. Selectee must meet position requirements for Practitioner Level 2 certification in the Acquisition Career field Engineering and Technology Management within 60 months as of entrance on duty.
• Must obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.
• This position may require up to 20% of temporary duty (TDY) travel.
• This position requires submission of Financial Disclosure Statement, OGE-450, upon entering the position and annually thereafter in accordance with DoD Directive 5500-7-R.
• This position requires the selectee to remain in Federal service for at least 3 years and sign a DD 2888 Tenure Agreement.
• This is a Critical Acquisition Position. Unless specifically waived, selectee must be able to meet the qualifications of CAP Position at the time of permanent selection for the position or have been granted a waiver.
• One-year Supervisory probationary period may be required.
• Selectee must have a least 4 years Acquisition Experience or obtain the required waiver.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Department of Army Civilian EmployeesDomestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel WorkforceInteragency Career Transition Assistance PlanLand Management Workforce Flexibility ActMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability RetirementPriority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference EligibleVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education and 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 Engineering: A. Degree: 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: 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. Written Test-- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional. 1 For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http:// www.nspe.org. 2 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. Registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. 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. 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.) All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the specialized experience requirement listed below. Specialized Experience: To qualify for the DB-04 position, applicants must possess at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade of DB-03 pay band or grade equivalent in the Federal service performing the following duties: (1) Managing and executing programs within the DoD Acquisition Life Cycle in conjunction with DoD instruction 5000.02 and its application to major Acquisition Programs; (2) Effectively communicating critical information to senior leadership through briefings and writing examples; (3) Establishing and maintaining relationships with key individuals/groups outside immediate work unit, including across multiple competency areas and target audiences as a technical spokesperson for the organization (4) Leading projects and teams towards defined productivity metrics in a technical environment; and (5) Conducting a variety of studies utilizing evaluative methods, techniques, analyses, and reports. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: General EngineeringLeadershipProgram ManagementTechnical Competence Time-in-grade documentation: If you are applying for a higher grade and your SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you meet the one year time-in-grade requirement so you will need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstrates you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of appropriate SF-50s include Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective date more than one year old).

Education

**NOTE: TRANSCRIPTS ARE REQUIRED even if you are a current federal employee.**

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

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/.

Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act Career Field Position. This is an Army Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Workforce position. Selectees must meet the position requirements for certification at Practitioner Level in Engineering and Technology Management within 60 months of entrance on duty. (Certification requirements may be found in the Defense Acquisition University Catalog at http://www.dau.mil/).

Non-Acquisition Members - Submit your transcripts to see if a waiver is required in lieu of acquisition experience.

Selectees must sign an AAC written tenure agreement to remain in the Federal service in this position for at least three years. Information on Army Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Workforce may be found at https://asc.army.mil/.

Acquisition Members - Submit either your Acquisition Career Record Brief (ACRB) or other agency equivalent document.

Contacts

• Address FN-W4GHAA US ARMY COMBAT CAPABILITIES DEV CMD DO NOT MAIL Warren, MI 48397 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
• Email: [email protected]