ATC - Automotive- MIIC - 17271

Eligibility Requirements

US Citizenship

Career Category

Engineer

Job Summary

• This position is a Management Identified Internal Candidate (MIIC) announcement, only open to ATC, Automotive Directorate NH-03.

• The mission of the US Army Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) is to provide test and test support services for authorized customers, within DoD and outside DoD, including government and non-government organizations, domestic and foreign. Provide comprehensive test and training both real and simulated; provide expert knowledge and technical services including instrumentation application, facility operations, manufacturing and fabrication; exploit emerging technologies; and develop leading edge instrumentation and test methodologies.

• ATC participates in an alternate personnel system known as the Acquisition Demonstration (AcqDemo) project. Among other features, AcqDemo replaces GS grade levels with occupational families and pay bands. ***The NH-03 Senior Professional control point of the ATEC Control Point Policy is monetarily equivalent to the GS-13 salary range; this position is subject to the NH-03 Senior Professional control point of $153,354.***

Job Responsibilities

Serves as a team Senior Test and Evaluation Engineer and project leader with responsibility for planning, conducting, analyzing and reporting complex automotive engineering performance and environmental tests on military vehicles and on selected advanced technology commercial vehicles. Develops new testing methodologies, instrumentation techniques and facilities in support of testing for advanced and emerging vehicle technologies. Discusses test objectives with representatives of the requesting organization. Develops test plans, prepares timelines and cost estimates, and coordinates the work of support personnel in conducting specific test phases. Provides recommendations for meeting short and long-range workload. Proposes needed revisions in staffing levels, work priorities, and deadlines. Participates in meetings with other teams to coordinate when matters of organization, work planning, or procedures affect other teams. Makes estimates regarding proposed work and prepares estimates for the team's budgetary requirements. Plans, organizes, conducts, and completes performance and environmental testing and evaluation for all types of military vehicles, commercial vehicles, general equipment, and major components in various life cycle phases. Supports system simulation, model development, and validation. Demonstrates technical judgment and expertise in developing new test techniques and procedures where precedent is lacking. 

Serves as team lead to communicate the organization's strategic plan, mission, vision, and values to the team. Integrates these components into the team's strategies, goals, objectives, work plans, work products, and services. Articulates and communicates assignment, project problem, actionable events, milestones, program issues, and deadlines and time frames for completion to the team. Coaches the team in selecting and applying appropriate problem-solving methods and techniques, and provides advice on work methods, practices, and procedures. Assists the team and/or individual members in identifying the parameters of a viable solution. Leads the team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload and tasks among employees. Makes adjustments to accomplish the workload in accordance with established priorities to ensure timely accomplishment of assigned team tasks. Ensures that each employee plays an integral role in developing the final team product. Trains or arranges training for team members in methods and techniques of team building and accomplishing tasks or projects. Provides or arranges specific administrative or technical training necessary for accomplishing individual and team tasks. Applies a wide range of qualitative and/or quantitative methods to identify, assess, analyze, and improve team effectiveness, efficiency, and work products. Leads the team in assessing its strengths and weaknesses, exploring alternatives, and determining improvements. Ensures that all team members participate in planning for achievement of team goals and objectives.

Job Qualification

You must meet the OPM General Schedule Qualification Standard for this 0830 position.  For more information, please visit Mechanical Engineering Series 0830 (opm.gov).

Specialized Experience

Basic Requirements: 

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 

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 achieve 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.)

HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED. You will be evaluated based on your level of competency in the following areas:

1.  Leading a team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload and tasks among employees.

2.  Facilitating team initiatives and consensus-building activities among team members.

4.  Monitor and report on the status and progress of work, checking on work in progress, and reviewing completed work.

3.  Written and oral communication. 

Conditions of Employment

This position requires TDY (temporary duty travel) away from its duty location approximately 25% of the time.