ENGINEER/SCIENTIST

Full Job Description

You will serve as an ENGINEER/SCIENTIST in the GLOBAL DETERRENCE & DEFENSE DEPARTMENT (GX), TRUSTED MICROELECTRONICS DIVISION (GXV) of NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER.

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

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the ND-04 (GS-12/13 grade) 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 planning, managing and executing microelectronics engineering projects throughout a system's lifecycle to support the technological advancement of a variety of warfare weapons programs.

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 demonstrate expertise in developing and documenting plans to solve engineering problems.
• You will lead stakeholder teams including Flag Level, Ph.D. Level, and subject matter experts to solve technical issues associated with Trusted Microelectronics, and high reliability microelectronic components for strategic platform applications.
• You will be accountable for technical rigor and judiciousness, chair internal execution review process and will be a key asset to all Root Cause Analyses.
• You will provide strategic planning, senior-level technical engineering, subject matter expertise, and programmatic leadership to be utilized in strategic weapon system and mission-critical military platform applications.
• You will provide leadership for the Division in ensuring technical competencies are maintained, identify gaps and improve technical rigor and improvement in processes /procedures via regular technical reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.