You will serve as a CONTINUOUS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT SPECIALIST of NAVAL SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT ACTIVITY. This position is in the excepted service and does not confer competitive status.

Duties

You will facilitate significant customer driven, results oriented quality and process improvement activities using various CPI(Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Value Engineering, Quick Win, etc.) methodologies and strategies, as appropriate, across the command. You will guide and instruct while assuring team(s) use an organized, structured, and robust CPI methodology to provide recommendations, solutions, and process controls You will implement quantitative and qualitative methods within the scope of the respective project and reporting of results You will be responsible for analysis, facilitation, reporting, and providing recommendations for process improvements, improving quality, reducing costs, and establishing appropriate process metrics and process controls You will work with senior leadership as change agent in assuring, directing, and performing the steps necessary to create business cases based on objective data within the framework of the CPI methodology You will provide technical direction in project management, team building, facilitation, process improvement analysis, and the methodology required to develop and substantiate a business case for the selected project

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.
• You must acknowledge in writing that you are accepting an appointment in the excepted service which does not confer competitive status, prior to 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.
• PPP applicants must currently hold the required security clearance.
• 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.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Facilitating customer driven, results oriented quality and process improvement activities using various Continuous Process Improvement (Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Value Engineering, Quick Win, etc.) methodologies and strategies, as appropriate, across the command Teaching and mentoring while assuring team(s) use an organized, structured, and robust CPI methodology to provide recommendations, solutions, and process controls Leading projects for enterprise level projects as a SME Providing technical direction in project management, team building, facilitation, process improvement analysis, and the methodology required to develop and substantiate a business case for the selected project Serving as a trainer for Belt training courses Conducting training from registration through acceptance, classroom instruction to course completion Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-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

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address NAVAL SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT ACTIVITY Department of the Navy Washington, DC 20373 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]