General Engineer

Duties
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This position is part of the Department of Defense (DoD), Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The incumbent will be responsible for: Directly supporting the BMDS acquisition program by performing systems planning, research, development, and other engineering task under the direction and guidance of the engineering Functional Manager and Functional Leads.

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Acq Demo Engineering, Technical & Management (ETM) to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

As a General Engineer at the NH-0801-4 broadband level, some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Manage the cost, schedule, performance requirements, technical, and security for the Theater-Based Defense, U.S. Israeli Cooperative Program (MDA/TBI) Israeli Test Bed (ITB) Project (U.S. and Israel Labs).
• Ensure the ITB Project achieves all objectives in accordance with the ITB Program Plan.
• Coordinate with the Israeli Missile Defense Organization ITB lead to develop the project plan for experiments and exercises each year including definition of objectives, scenarios, and participants.
• Participate in Upper Tier Coordination Officer training to incorporate lessons learned into ITB warfighter exercises.
• Administer the contract for the ITB including oversight of the experiment and exercise schedule to ensure all required events are completed each contract year, assessing deliverables from the Israeli ITB Prime Contractor following each experiment and exercise for completeness.
• Provide oversight of installation software and hardware updates in the U.S. lab to ensure that it is in full compliance with the Israeli lab for enhanced and continuous ITB laboratory operations.
• Manage and support MDA Ground Test planning and execution related to the US ITB lab in enterprise level risk reduction testing.

Requirements
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Conditions of employment

• 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
• Recruitment Incentives: Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees based on agency policy and availability.
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Financial Disclosure: Required
• Telework Eligibility: This position is situational telework eligible.
• This is a Drug Testing designated position.
• This is an acquisition position coded Practitioner in Engineering and Technical Management. Must obtain mandatory Back-to-Basics (BtB) certification within 60 months of entry into position.
• This is a Critical Acquisition Position. Incumbent will be required to sign a written tenure agreement to remain, for a minimum of three years, in the Federal Service in the Critical Acquisition Position.
• Must acquire 80 Continuous Learning Points every 24 months.
• Incumbent must obtain/maintain Non-Critical Sensitive/Secret security clearance.

Qualifications

You may qualify at the NH-04 Broadband Level, if you fulfill the following qualifications:

A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-03/GS-13 grade level in the Federal service as listed below and must meet 3 of the 4 specialized experience listed below to be qualified:

• Experience leading a portfolio of system engineering projects involving multiple disciplines, concepts, principles, and methods related to complex weapon systems.
• Experience analyzing complex data, developing conclusions and informing recommendations presented to senior management within the engineering and program management divisions.
• Experience collaborating with international partners to understand requirements, developing simulation objectives, and then executing models and simulations in a client/server architecture in either stand alone or distributed modes.
• Experience in oral and written communications, to include the development of presentations, to senior management within the engineering and program management divisions.

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 Requirements for the 0801, series as listed below:

This position has a Basic Requirement for the 0801 series: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf

0801 Series:
A. Degree: Engineering. 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.
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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:

• 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 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.)

NOTE: Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

Education

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.

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

Additional information

Other Notes:

ACQUISITION POSITION: This position requires Acquisition Workforce Level Practitioner in the Engineering and Technical Management Certification prior to hiring is not essential but must be accomplished within 36 months after entry into this position.

• DAWIA (Back to Basics) Certification: CAP: Position requires DoD Acquisition Engineering and Technical Management, Practitioner certification within required timeframes. Selectee must also achieve 80 hours of Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) every 2-yearsClick here for more details and Resources .

RE-EMPLOYED ANNUITANT: This position DOES NOT meet criteria for re-employed annuitant. The DoD criteria for hiring Re-employed Annuitants can be found at: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/1400.25-V300.pdf .

All applicants must meet qualifications and eligibility criteria by the closing date of the announcement.

Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see Who Needs to Register | Selective Service System : Selective Service System (sss.gov) )