Job opening: General Engineer/Safety Engineer
Salary: $127 073 - 191 900 per year
Published at: Dec 02 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
The position(s) covered by this vacancy announcement is in the Department of Defense (DoD) Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo). For more information please see: AcqDemo
Duties
This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Acq Engineering and Technical Managements to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service..
As a General Engineer/Safety Engineer at the NH-0801/0803-4 some of your typical work assignments may include:
Provides overall planning, direction, control, and management of division activities. Establishes program criteria and standards, formulates Quality, Safety and/or Mission Assurance and validates program requirements. Monitors and directs major elements of division work tasks including {a) development of policies and guidance tor the organization, operations and management of the division; {b) assignments and delegation of responsibility; (c) organization of sections for functional structure and technical effectiveness, and (d) direction of the technical and administrative operations of the division.
Plans, directs and controls broad aspects of the development and maintenance of policies and criteria by which MDA acquires/supports its Quality, Safety and/or Mission Assurance Program. Coordinates activities with the Services, the Service higher headquarters, OSD, other federal officials, Congressional representatives, and community and private sector individuals.
Ensures lessons learned are shared within the Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance community as well as other Program/Project/Element Offices to prevent mistakes from being repeated. Ensures MDA Quality, Safety and/or Mission Assurance programs conform with and are fully integrated to support Missile Defense System testing.
Serves as an expert on Quality, Safety and/or Mission Assurance and technical consultant to MDA program/project offices, Service higher headquarters, Military Service Major Commands, field offices and OSD on planning, development, acquisition, and execution matters, Assists in developing corporate plans, policies and procedures on a selected basis. Available to appear before MDA panels, boards, steering groups, committees, senior MDA officials, and Congressional Committees to support, defend, and address issues pertaining to MDA Quality, Safety and/or Mission Assurance program.
Represents OCONUS on field visits to various Services, Commands and Program Offices to assist in the planning, development, acquisition, and execution of the Quality, Safety and/or Mission Assurance programs and processes.
Serves as a technical consultant on policy issues affecting program Quality, Safety and/or Mission Assurance and insures that functions and operations are performed uniformly, economically and in accordance with MDA policies and procedures. Represents MDA at various industry forums or other outside activities as required.
This position is part of the DoD, Missile Defense Agency. The incumbent will be responsible for Directs, reviews, coordinates, and implements broad strategies, policies and procedures for programming, planning, developing, acquisition, and execution of the Quality, Safety and/or Mission Assurance. Provides administrative and technical continuity required in the development of the program and preparation and publication of appropriate MDA regulations, instructions, guidance documents, and correspondence for execution of the program.
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Occasional Travel
- Work Schedule: Full-time
- Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
- Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation
- May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
- Overtime: Occasionally
- Tour of Duty: Flexible
- Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible based on agency policy and availability.
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
- Financial Disclosure: Required
- Telework Eligibility: This position is telework eligible
- Position requires DoD Acquisition certification coded Practitioner in Engineering and Technical Management within required timeframes.
- Must obtain mandatory Back to Basics (B2B) certification within 60 months of entry into position.
- Must achieve 80 hours of Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) every 2-years.
- Incumbent must obtain/maintain Non-Critical Sensitive/Secret security clearance
- This position maybe eligible for part time, substantial or ad-hoc telework at the discretion of management.
- This is a drug testing position.
Qualifications
You may qualify at the NH-04, if you fulfill the following qualifications:
A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-03/GS13 grade level in the Federal service as listed below:
(Candidates must meet at least 2 of the 4 specialized experience requirements)
Experience leading a quality, safety and mission assurance team, developing criteria and standards, developing and implementing
requirements for contracts, and validating compliance. OR
Experience with all aspects of risk mitigation, hazard analysis, and/or engineering technical consulting involved with complex weapon
systems. OR
Experience in the application of military, industry, and commercial quality safety and mission assurance standards along with the
ability to apply that knowledge to determine technical suitability of weapon system design. OR
Experience contributing to failure review boards, engineering reviews, technical interchange meetings, monitor testing, and
qualification activities.
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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational for the 0801 and 0803 series. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf
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), 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: Applicants claiming eligibility under the related curriculum paragraph (4) must provide ONE of the two following documents: (a) Letter signed by the professional engineer who supervised the applicant's training plan. The letter must include the starting date and completion date of applicant's training plan and the courses, experience, and/or education completed during the training agreement; OR (b) Letter signed by a professional engineer who supervised the applicant's professional engineering work experience. The letter must include the name of the Company/Agency, dates of employment, and a description of the professional engineering duties.
Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.
All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.
*NOTE: Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position.
Education
All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.
GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours that your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that 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://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html
Contacts
- Address Missile Defense Agency
Bldg 5222 Martin Rd
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898
US
- Name: MDA Servicing Team
- Phone: 6146920299
- Email: [email protected]
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