Temporary Promotion/Reassignment - AEC/AFED FVL Division Chief

Full TimeMD-ABERDEENAEC
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Eligibility Requirements

US Citizenship

Career Category

Engineer

Job Summary

This job is a civilian position and does not require military service (including commission and enlisted).
 
WHAT IS ATEC?

ATEC is the Army’s independent test and evaluation organization. We are a team of Civilian and Military personnel working together to provide America’s Military with the best equipment to win and return home safely. At ATEC, we have a saying: If a Soldier rides, wears, shoots, or deploys it, we test it. ATEC is at the forefront of testing and evaluating technologies of the future from autonomous aerial/ground vehicles to hypersonic weapons. Each day, top scientists and engineers test and evaluate cutting-edge equipment. Our workforce is highly technical and skilled, comprised of more than 8,500 military, civilian, and contract personnel. Engineers, scientists, technicians, researchers, and evaluators work with innovative, advanced technologies in 24 testing and research locations across the U.S. States and around the world. If you are a civilian who wants your work to make a difference, we look forward to hearing from you. For more information on ATEC, salary, benefits, etc., visit: https://www.atecciviliancareers.com.
 
PLACE OF WORK: This position is located at the U.S. Army Evaluation Center (AEC), Aviation Fires Directorate, Future Vertical Lift Division, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
 

This Temporary Promotion/Temporary Assignment is for a Supervisory Interdisciplinary position open to AEC NH-03s and NH-04s to serve as a Supervisory Interdisciplinary NH-04 (Division Chief) for six months NTE one year. An NH-03 that is selected for this position will be temporarily promoted to an NH-04. The incumbent selected for this position may be eligible to receive supervisory differential pay.

Job Responsibilities

1. Serves as Division Chief and is responsible to the Technical Director(s) and Director, for total mission accomplishment affecting the Division. Supervises up to 10 personnel to include civilian employees and military personnel. Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, difficulty, and requirements of assignments and the capabilities of employees. Provides technical oversight; develops performance plans and rates employees; identifies developmental and training needs of employees and provides and /or arranges for needed developmental and training. Assures reasonable equity of individual employee performance objectives, standards and ratings among employees assigned. Recommends performance  awards and salary/bonus distribution of subordinate employees. Evaluates work performance of subordinates, gives advice, counsel, or instruction to employee on both work and administrative matters. Interviews and selects candidates for positions; and makes recommendations for appointment, promotion or reassignment of such positions. Hears and resolves complaints from employees, and refers more serious unresolved complaints to higher supervisor or manager. Effects  minor disciplinary measures such as warning and reprimands; recommends other actions in more serious cases. This responsibility involves workforce planning, ensuring use of internal controls and recruitment and selection of civilian employees, and implementing Equal Employment Opportunity program objectives. Judges the performance of personnel and establishes outcomes/goals, guidelines and performance standards in relation to mission requirements.
 

2 . Responsible for the test and evaluation planning, coordination, execution, and reporting of the integrated testing and evaluation of assigned systems. These systems may be Joint, Army, other Service or other agency programs of record or rapid acquisition initiatives. Performs external coordination as needed to support the acquisition process and the ATEC System Team (AST). Responsible for the timeliness and quality of products for assigned systems, as well as responsiveness to the needs of the customer. Ensures evaluation plans and reports sufficiently address effectiveness, suitability, survivability and safety; integrating developmental and operational testing to the maximum extent feasible; and ensures that test programs are tailored and integrated. Ensures evaluation planning employs design of experiments, use of common instrumentation, and modeling and simulation where appropriate to achieve evaluation objectives, as well as guide the development of databases to store and facilitate retrieval of results from diverse tests in support of system evaluations. Ensure evaluation results are factual and presented in a clear concise manner. Participates in formal reviews of acquisition policies, plans and requirements documents. Selects, reads and interprets governing policies, directives, regulations, public laws, applicable guidelines and other similar materials in order to identify and evaluate current and long-range operational requirements. The work is characterized by a high degree of cross function complexity and serve time constraints.

Job Qualification

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, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
 

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

1. Leadership

2. Technical Competence

3. Oral/Written Communication

4. Problem Solving

Your resume may be submitted in any format and will be used to determine eligibility and qualifications for this position based on the evaluation criteria described above. For qualifications determinations, your resume must contain hours worked per week and dates of employment (i.e. hours per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked incomplete, and you may not receive consideration for this position. 

 

If your resume includes a photograph/inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility/qualifications determinations, and you may not be considered for this vacancy.

 

For additional information on what to include in your resume, click here.

 

You will receive an email message acknowledging receipt of your application. If determined to be ineligible or not qualified, your application will receive no further consideration. 

Conditions of Employment

  • This position requires incumbent to be able to obtain and maintain a determination of eligibility for a Secret security clearance, or access, for duration of employment.
  • This position requires temporary duty travel (TDY) up to 20% of the time.

Travel Requirements

Up to 20% Travel

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

usarmy.apg.atec.mbx.atec-civilian-careers@army.mil