You will serve as a SUPERVISORY INTERDISCIPLINARY in the FLEET NUMERICAL METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY CENTER (FNMOC) of FLT NUMER OCEANGPHY METEO CTR.

Duties

You will serve as a senior technical advisor and consultant in the areas of meteorology, physical oceanography, or other specialized physical science fields relevant to FNMOC’s mission. You will exercise direct technical and administrative oversight for environmental models that directly impact worldwide U.S. Navy Under Sea, Electromagnetic Maneuver, Mine, Sub-Sea, Amphibious, and Special Warfare operations. You will provide authoritative advice to other agency scientists and high-level officials, overseeing investigations that may require the development of new techniques. You will serve as the first-level supervisor of the Modeling and Forecasting Deputy Department Head and second-level supervisor of all departmental division heads. You will prepare the Department budget and ensure the most cost-effective expenditures of the budget. You will plan, organize, supervise, and direct the work to be accomplished by subordinates, set priorities and prepares schedules for completion of work, assign work to subordinates based on priorities. You will identify developmental and training needs of employees and make provisions for such development and training, which may include consulting with specialists. You will inform Position Management Board of anticipated vacancies, increase in workload, or other circumstances requiring replacement or additional staff. You will prepare recruitment package paperwork, including job analyses, crediting plans, interview questions, assemble recruitment panels, and recommend and select candidates for positions in the Department. You will advise the Technical Director and Executive Officer of problems involving how the Department’s work impacts other programs.

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 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.
• 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 subject to work an uncommon tour, including nights, weekends, and holidays to meet mission requirements. Overtime or night differential pay and/or unusual duty hours may be required.
• Supervisors in the executive branch have a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. You will be required to review the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct at 5 CFR 2635.101.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year (52 weeks) 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: Experience with data processing software, within both FNMOC and the scientific community at large, FNMOC standards and policies, standard operating procedures for data validation, and physical science, oceanography, ionosphere, and meteorology work processes and terminology. Experience with the technical aspects of physical science with emphasis in oceanography, ionosphere, or meteorology sufficient to oversee improvements to numerical environmental forecast guidance and to the performance of tactical decision aids for one or more of the major product areas. Experience with the technical aspects of physical science with an emphasis in oceanography, ionosphere, or meteorology sufficient to oversee improvements to numerical environmental forecast guidance and to the performance of tactical decision aids for one or more of the major product areas, and with environmental processes relevant to military missions. Experience with the policies and practices of physical science, oceanography, ionosphere, and meteorology to effectively supervise, train, motivate, and work effectively with subordinates. Experience with security regulations, policies and procedures, federal procurement rules, regulations, policies, and procedures, and with external relationships of parent agencies. Experience defining, initiating, and providing guidance for major projects in oceanography, ionosphere, meteorology and physical science to review work produced for technical soundness and conformance to accepted standards of content. 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=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

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

General Physical Science Series, 1301:

A) Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics.

OR

B) Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Meteorology Series, 1340:

A) Degree: meteorology, atmospheric science, or other natural science major that included:

1) At least 24 semester (36 quarter) hours of credit in meteorology/atmospheric science including a minimum of:
A. Six semester hours of atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics.
B. Six semester hours of analysis and prediction of weather systems (synoptic/mesoscale)
C. Three semester hours of physical meteorology.
D. Two semester hours of remote sensing of the atmosphere and/or instrumentation.

2) Six semester hours of physics, with at least one course that includes laboratory sessions.
3) Three semester hours of ordinary differential equations.
4) At least nine semester hours of course work appropriate for a physical science major in any combination of three or more of the following: physical hydrology, statistics, chemistry, physical oceanography, physical climatology, radiative transfer, aeronomy, advanced thermodynamics, advanced electricity and magnetism, light and optics, and computer science.

*There is a prerequisite or corequisite of calculus for course work in atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics, physics, and differential equations. Calculus courses must be appropriate for a physical science major.

OR

B) Combination of education and experience -- course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Oceanography Series, 1360:
A) Degree: major study of at least 24 semester hours in oceanography or a related discipline such as physics, meteorology, geophysics, mathematics, chemistry, engineering, geology, or biology, plus 20 additional semester hours in any combination of oceanography, physics, geophysics, chemistry, mathematics, meteorology, computer science, and engineering sciences.

OR

B) Combination of education and experience -- course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Applicants who qualify on the basis of major study in biology or geology must have had at least 6 semester hours in the major directly concerned with marine science or 6 semester hours in oceanography; applicants who qualify on the basis of other physical sciences or engineering must have had differential and integral calculus and at least 6 semester hours in physics.
The total course work in either A or B above must have included differential and integral calculus and, in addition, four advanced mathematics courses requiring calculus or equivalent mathematics courses as a prerequisite.

Contacts

• Address FLT NUMER OCEANGPHY METEO CTR 7 Grace Hopper Ave Monterey, CA 93943 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]