SUPERVISORY INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER/SCIENTIST

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You will serve as a SUPERVISORY INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER/SCIENTIST in the AIR VEHICLE TEST & EVALUATION DEPARTMENT of NAVTESTWINGLANT NWCF.

This Announcement Covers 13 Vacancies, Considering the Following Disciplines: GENERAL ENGINEER (0801) PHYSICIST (1310) OPERATIONS RESEARCH ANALYST (1515) COMPUTER SCIENTIST(1550) 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 (GS-09 through GS-12) grade level or pay band (NM-03) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Carrying out the full range of combined technical and administrative direction of others; 2) Motivating employees under your leadership to perform the organization's objectives; 3) Establishing and communicating organizational objectives in both groups and one-on-one meetings to ensure that the workload of the unit is assigned to, understood by, and successfully completed by your employees; 4) Resolving complex technical problems, reviewing work, and providing, finding, and researching answers to employees' questions; 5) Demonstrating professional competence in the test and evaluation discipline sufficient to provide supervision and technical direction of the workforce; 6) Administering management policies and procedures, and coordinating functions between various groups to accomplish intended goals.

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 IOR: 0801: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf 1310: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/physics-series-1310/ 1515: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/operations-research-series-1515/ 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. Major Duties:

• You will serve as a technical expert in the area of Test and Evaluation for NAVAIRWARCENACDIV.
• You will review test plans, reports, and correspondence for projects within the branch to ensure application of systems engineering principles, efficient use of test resources, and completion of technical tasks in adherence to established policies.
• You will provide technical direction and guidance for the planning, designing, directing, coordinating, conducting, and reporting of all Test and Evaluation work assigned.
• You will assign work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees.
• You will give advice, counsel, or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters within the Test and Evaluation field.
• You will identify critical program test elements, translate engineering test requirements into test plans, conduct tests, provide engineering analysis of test data, and report test results.
• You will be responsible for the definition of functional requirements for future test facilities, equipment, and instrumentation systems.
• You will be responsible for recruiting, development, performance management of between 10-15 subordinates.