Job opening: TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, FLEET READINESS DIRECTORATE
Salary: $184 060 - 225 700 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Jan 30 2025
Employment Type: Full-time
You will serve as the Technical Director for Fleet Readiness Directorate (FRD) within the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR). The incumbent oversees NAVWAR's overarching systems engineering efforts to apply technical solutions to complex technical problems in the field. The incumbent is required to exercise the highest degree of intellectual understanding of Naval missions, systems requirements, and the capability of technologies to meet these requirements.
Duties
You will support the Director in the overall execution of the FRD's mission to modernize and support readiness of Fleet assets.
You will advise programs of the technical needs of the warfighter to enable greater operational relevance of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) developing systems.
You will provide insight of issues, gaps, and overlap with currently deployed Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) systems to facilitate constant improvement of the C4ISR capabilities delivered by the NAVWAR enterprise.
You will serve as the Navy technical warrant holder for fleet integration of end-to-end C4ISR systems and capabilities.
You will serve as an advisor to the Science and Technology community to communicate the future warfighting doctrine and help match emerging technologies with these future operational demands.
You will provide guidance to facilitate decision-making processes, present justifications for proposed approaches, and provide technical consultation.
You will advise the Program Executive Offices (PEOs) on readiness and modernization issues in the Fleet.
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
- You will be required to complete ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Public Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-278e within 30 days of appointment.
- 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 covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Acquisition Functional Area and category assigned to the position is required within established category timeframes.
- This position is a Key Leadership Position (KLP) (reserved for high level acquisition positions typically assigned to major acquisition program offices in systems command headquarters).
- This position is considered Key. You will be required to provide immediate and continuing support to ensure the success of combat operations or the availability of combat-essential systems.
- This is a Mission Essential position. You will be required to ensure organization or facility continuity of operations and/or completion of tasks that are considered essential to the mission designated by a local or command decision.
Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS: Applicants will be assessed against Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs). Failure to provide a separate narrative statement which describes fully and concisely how your experience meets the Mandatory Technical Qualifications will eliminate you from consideration.
MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS: (Each must be addressed separately in your Supplemental Narrative Statement. Each MTQ must not exceed 2 pages.)
1. Knowledge of operational, systems, and technical architectures for complex C4ISR systems in joint theater and deployed forces.
2. Ability to identify and characterize complex technical problems, assesses impact to the fleet operations, and delivers engineering and operational solutions.
3. Ability to create a vision, in concert with fleet and acquisition stakeholders and transform that vision into architecture and engineering plans to support the delivery of transformational C4ISR capability to the fleet.
4. Demonstrated experience in planning, organizing, and managing highly complex, innovative engineering development and integration projects and programs with a high degree of visibility and customer satisfaction.
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=GS-PROF
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0801 Professional Engineering 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:
For 801 Professional Engineering Series:
A. Degree: Engineering. Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher engineering degree from an accredited college or university. 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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
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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:
(I) 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; or
(II) Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 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; or
(III) 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; or
(IV) 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.)
An advanced degree of Master's or Ph.D. in one of the educational fields listed above is highly desirable.
Contacts
- Address NAVWARSYSCOM
4301 Pacific Highway
San Diego, CA 92110
US
- Name: Dept of the Navy Executive Hiring
- Email: usn.seattle-wa.ochrsvdopscenwa.mbx.don-executive-hiring@us.navy.mil
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