Supervisory General Engineer (Sensors and Platform Division Chief), NH-0801-04

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Eligibility Requirements

US Citizenship

Career Category

Engineer

Job Summary

U.S. Army Redstone Test Center (RTC) participates in an alternate personnel system known as the Acquisition Demonstration Project, AcqDemo. Among other features, AcqDemo replaces GS grade levels with occupational families and pay bands.
 
The NH-04 band is equal to the GS-14 step 1 through the GS-15 step 10. However, this position is subjec to the NH-04, Supervisory Division Chief control point of the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) Control Point Policy $141,031 per year including locality pay.

Job Responsibilities

  • Serves as a Division Chief (Supervisory General Engineer), within the Missiles and Sensors Test Directorate (MSTD).
  • Plans and establishes objectives for assigned programs by establishing technical approaches and developing current and long-range plans.
  • Establishes guidelines for subordinates based on higher echelon guidance, program requirements, and relationship with other organizations and programs determine goals and objectives that need additional emphasis.
  • Assigns work, based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of the assignment and the capabilities of the employees.
  • Develops employee performance standards and makes formal and informal appraisal of work, giving advice, counsel and/or instructions to employees.
  • Interviews candidates for positions and recommends various personnel actions including promotions or reassignments.
  • Ensure all Division operations are complaint with applicable security, environmental, and safety procedures for hazardous and nonhazardous tests.
  • Provides strategic oversight of division capabilities, facilities, and equipment including capability gaps identification, sustainment, and investment planning.
  • Manages key technical personnel with Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required to maintain critical subject matter expertise within the division including succession planning and recruiting of new personnel.

Job Qualification

This announcement uses the Business & Technical Management Career Path (NH) direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.
Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and 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, yourtranscripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
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Competencies needed for the position:
Modeling and Simulation
Measurement and Instrumentation
Strategic Plans
Leadership

Education:
Basic Requirement for Engineering Positions:

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 andTechnology (ABET); OR (2) include diff erential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics andchemistry) 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 andproperties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamentalengineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
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B. Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) athorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, boththeoretical 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 aProfessional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under thisstandard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminenceprovisions) 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 ratedeligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination, or any other written testrequired for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, orPuerto Rico.
3. Specified academic courses - Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, andengineering sciences and that included the courses specified in A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting therequirements 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 inlieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired underprofessional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training todevelop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., ininterdisciplinary positions.

FOREIGN EDUCATION:
If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements,you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreigneducation programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or fullcredit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit:
http://www.ed.gov/about/off ices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html
 

Specialized Experience

  • Specialized Experience:
    • One-year specialized experience which includes: One year of specialized experience which includes: 
      • Expert knowledge of life cycle test and evaluation programs for weapons systems
      • Applying safety operating practices and procedures for an organizations test programs
      • Managing test capabilities and or personnel required to execute test mission
      • Providing oversight of a team for planning, conducting, and evaluating tests
      This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service NH-03 (GS-13)

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

  • You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

  • As vacancies occur, the Human Resources Off ice will review your resume to ensure you meet the hiring eligibility and qualificationrequirements listed in this flyer. You will be rated based on the information provided in your resume, along with your supportingdocumentation.

  • If, after reviewing your résumé and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualificationsand/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors oromissions may aff ect your eligibility.

  • Veterans and Military Spouses will be considered along with all other candidates.  If selected, you may be required to provide additional supporting documentation.
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  • For Qualification Requirements please see link below:  General Schedule Qualifications (OPM.gov)

Benefits
Required Documents
How to Apply
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Required Documents
Your complete application includes your resume and other documents which prove your qualifications and eligibility to apply.
If youfail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not beconsidered any further.
1. Your resume:
Your resume may be submitted in any format and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement.
If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility andqualification determinations and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
For qualifications determinations your resume must contain hours worked per week and the dates of employment (i.e., HRS perweek and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this information, your applicationmay be marked as incomplete and you may not receive consideration for this position.

2.  Other supporting documents:

Cover letter, optional

This position has an individual occupational requirement and/or allows for substitution of education for experience. If you meetthis requirement based on education you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your application package or you will be ratedineligible. See:
Transcripts and Licenses
NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond theHuman Resources Off ice. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personalinformation for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information beforeyou submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.

Conditions of Employment

      • This announcement uses the Business & Technical Management Career Path (NH) direct hire authority to recruit andappoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.
      • Male applicants born aft er December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective ServiceRegistration.
      • You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
      • One year trial/probationary period may be required.
      • Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
      • This position requires you to submit a Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE 278) or a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report(OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
      • Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
      • If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
      • This is a Career Program (CP) 16 - Engineers & Scientists (Non-Construction) position.
      • Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
      • When you perform a Civilian Permanent Change of Station (PCS) with the government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit https://www.dfas.mil/civilianemployees/civrelo/Civilian-Moving-Expenses-Tax-Deduction/for more information.
      • Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and anagency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest.
      • Due to COVID-19, the agency is currently in an expanded telework posture. If selected, you may be expected to temporarilytelework, even if your home is located outside the local commuting area. Once employees are permitted to return to the off ice,you will be expected to report to the duty station listed on this announcement within a designated time frame identified by theorganization. At that time, you may be eligible to request to continue to telework one or more days a pay period depending uponthe terms of the agency's telework policy.

Travel Requirements

Up to 10% Travel

QUESTIONS or issues please send us a message with the vacancy announcement URL, position title, and location to:

usarmy.redstone.atec.mbx.rtc-recruiting@army.mil