Supervisory Interdisciplinary

Full Job Description

About the Position: This announcement is for Division Chief positions located at the U.S.

Army Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) with a duty location of Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, in the following Directorates: Automotive - Automotive Test Support Division; Live Fire - Engineering Systems Technology Division; Live Fire - Design and Fabrication Division; Warfighter - Applied Sciences Test Division; and Safety - Safety Program Management Division.

(merit) Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities Current Army Test and Evaluation Command employees with Competitive Status Current Civilian Employees of the Command Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below.

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).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIRMENT.

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-03/GS-13 grade level in the Federal service which includes work that involves: 1.) Leading or advancing interdisciplinary technical teams by planning or directing work, assigning or balancing tasks, establishing performance standards, and/or managing available resources; and 2) Managing technical programs or projects by overseeing cost, schedule, and performance to ensure the successful development, testing, integration, or sustainment of complex systems (such as materiel systems or software); and 3) Providing authoritative technical guidance and direction in one or more of the following fields: General Engineering, Safety Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Physical Science, Physics, Mathematics, or Computer Science.

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required specialized experience in order to qualify.

For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Leadership Project Management Strategic Thinking Technical Competence Written Communication In addition to meeting the specialized experience above, to qualify for this position, you must also meet one of the basic requirements listed below: EDUCATION REQUIREMENT for Professional Engineer (0800) Series.

A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering.

To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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), 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) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or 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 A above.

The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. 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 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.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENT for Physical Science (1301) Series. A.

Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics.

OR B.

Combination of Education and Experience: Courses equivalent to one of the majors, as shown in A above, that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Major Duties:

• Manage major test and evaluation programs characterized by the requirement for novel plans and/or development of unique solutions.
• Plan work to be accomplished by subordinates; set and adjust short-term priorities; and prepare schedules for completion of work.
• Supervise, manage, and direct; through subordinate supervisors; the efforts of 30 to 40 professional, non-professional, technical, and administrative personnel.
• Authority in the commodity fields/functional areas overseen. Provide technical advice on matters of far reaching consequence in Army materiel development.
• Evaluate proposals by subordinate Branch Chiefs; assess adequacy and effectiveness of assigned personnel, equipment, and technical procedures; and ensure effective tools, personnel, and organizational structures exist for accomplishment of work.