GENERAL ENGINEER

Full Job Description

The position(s) covered by this vacancy announcement is in the Department of Defense (DoD) Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo).

For more information please see: AcqDemo This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Acq Demo Business and Technical Management to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service You may qualify at the NH-03 broadband level, if you fulfill the following qualifications: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-02/GS-11 grade level in the Federal service.

Applicants must meet 3 of the 5 specialized experience statements: Experience applying Quality and Mission Assurance processes Experience working with industry partners and suppliers Identifying Key Manufacturing and Production Processes and recommending mandatory inspection points.

Briefing information and presenting written communications to explain the status and results of tasks and project.

Experience demonstrating problem solving, root cause analysis and corrective action development and implementation. 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.

OR 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: 1.

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.

2.

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.

3.

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. 4.

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: Applicants claiming eligibility under the related curriculum paragraph (4) must provide ONE of the two following documents: (a) Letter signed by the professional engineer who supervised the applicant's training plan.

The letter must include the starting date and completion date of applicant's training plan and the courses, experience, and/or education completed during the training agreement; OR (b) Letter signed by a professional engineer who supervised the applicant's professional engineering work experience.

The letter must include the name of the Company/Agency, dates of employment, and a description of the professional engineering duties. Major Duties:

As a General Engineer at the NH-0801-3 some of your typical work assignments may include: Conducts/participates in reviews of strategies, policies and procedures from programming, planning, developing, acquisition of and implementation of quality, mission assurance and assurance integration programs.

Develops/coordinates recommended adjustments. Provides administrative and technical continuity with regard to the preparation and publication of MDA regulations for the program.

Provides professional engineering expertise and serves as a technical consultant. Participates in work groups developing broad program criteria and standards, validating program requirements.

Assists in the development of corporate plans, policies and procedures.

Establishes and maintains liaison with the Services, OSD staff, counterparts in other Federal agencies, contractors, etc to provide technical consultation on safety, quality and mission assurance; shares information and reviews lessons learned; serves on working groups; and makes presentations on the planning, development, acquisition and execution of the quality, mission assurance, and assurance integration programs.

Prepares and/or reviews correspondence and assures technical proficiency and accuracy, compliance with policy.

Represents QS on field visits, at conferences and in various forums to assist in all aspects of the program.