FLEET INTEGRATION LEAD ENGINEER/SCIENTIST

Full Job Description

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.

You will serve as a Fleet Integration Lead Engineer/Scientist in the Special Systems Branch (Code H12) of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division.

This is an interdisciplinary position and may be filled by a General Engineer (0801-series), a General Physical Scientist (1301-series), an Operations Research Analyst (1515-series), a Mathematician (1520-series), or a Computer Scientist (1550-series) depending upon the qualifications of the candidate.

Applicants in positions with occupational series other than those listed (0801, 1301, 1515, 1520 and 1550) may apply; however, you must apply directly to the series listed in this vacancy that is most applicable to your qualifications.

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-4 pay band (GS-12 and GS-13 equivalency) 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 with experience in asymmetric system development and integration with operational concepts of operation.

Examples of qualifying experience may include (1) providing programmatic and technical direction to technical teams conducting rapid research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) resulting in approved products for production and deployment; (2) integrating capabilities and products with documented and tested interfaces with other DoD systems to ensure an operationally viable product upon fielding; (3) working with combatant commands to develop and document concepts of operations.

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 Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR): All Professional Engineering Positions, 08XX General Physical Science Series, 1301 Operations Research Series, 1515 Mathematics Series, 1520 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. Major Duties:

• You will provide programmatic and technical direction to diverse development, integration, and testing teams to integrate and validate field-ready asymmetric technologies to the fleet.
• You will address acquisition challenges, establish goals and action plans to improve integration efforts, and oversee validation activities with fleet and end-users.
• You will provide technical leadership and oversight in concert with Program Manager's programmatic goals to a multi-disciplinary team to produce technologies that enable the nation and DoD to effectively respond to asymmetric threats.
• You will lead operational milestone efforts associated with sensitive waveform development and fleet integration, and meet new requirements to strategically expand emitters and operational capabilities.
• You will direct and lead fleet integration for Triton Fury (H12) Program, utilizing and benefiting from external organizational relationships with the sponsor, combatant commands (COCOMs), U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) and Fleet.
• You will extend fleet integration successes beyond Triton Fury (H12) Program, executing integration aide, insight, and subject matter expertise across all applicable programs in the Asymmetric Division (H10).
• You will employ expert knowledge of operational capabilities and gap areas to identify in-field emitters and ensure continuous capability growth and seamless integration, testing, and fielding of program waveforms.
• You will develop and document novel and innovative asymmetric concepts of operation (ConOps) working with COCOMs.
• You will negotiate and implement key parameters as it relates to ConOps development, fleet integration testing, and an expanded set of emitters and deployable operational capabilities.
• You will develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across the DoD and intelligence communities to ensure operational success.
• You will actively manage and inform stakeholder relationships, leveraging the unique overlay of Dahlgren capabilities to benefit H10 asymmetric fleet integration requirements.