ENGINEER/SCIENTIST

Full Job Description

You will serve as an ENGINEER/SCIENTIST in the Sensor Integration and Technology Department, Radar Technologies Division of NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER.

The ND-05 pay band encompasses positions equivalent to GS-14 and GS-15. This position is part of the Warfare Centers Personnel Demonstration Project.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the ND-04 (GS-12/13 equivalent) pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: as a professional engineer or scientist researching and analyzing technical program requirements (e.g.

Mechanically Scanned Radar Systems, Passive Electronically Scanned Radar Systems, Active Electronically Scanned Radar Systems, Electromagnetic Warfare Systems, Communication Systems) ensuring proper technical rigor for the development and effective execution of system engineering practices.

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 FOR 0801: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf FOR 1301: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/general-physical-science-series-1301/ FOR 1501: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/general-mathematics-and-statistics-series-1501star/ FOR 1515: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/operations-research-series-1515/ FOR 1550: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/computer-science-series-1550/ 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.

The Secretary of Defense has ordered a department-wide hiring freeze subject to certain limited exceptions. This position is subject to the DoD hiring freeze.

Offers of employment related to this vacancy announcement will not be executed until the position has an approved exemption. Major Duties:

• You will be responsible for establishing and deploying the Division's approach to technical rigor including implementing, planning, managing, and chairing System Engineering Technical Review (SETR) Processes.
• You will provide technical and program support to the Division staff, Branch managers, partnering Divisions, and DoD sponsors.
• You will train, mentor, and assess Division engineering resources to ensure growth of technical competencies and maintain knowledge, skills, and abilities to execute current and future workload.
• You will assist with development of strategic plans to ensure Division engineering human capital and engineering facilities align to higher-level strategic plans and objectives.
• You will provide technical leadership of Division Subject Matter Expert Chief Engineers to facilitate the growth of Division technical workforce and to provide technical oversight of operations within the Division.
• You will be responsible for program management, strategic planning, system engineering, contract development, contract oversight, budget development, technical analysis, and integrated product team management.