AEC Division Chief - SED, Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Defense (CBRND) Division

Eligibility Requirements

US Citizenship

Career Category

Engineer

Job Summary

• This job is a civilian position and does not require military service (including commission and enlistment)
   
  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 their 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), Soldier Evaluation Directorate (SED), Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Defense Division at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
   
  Control Point Statement: The U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) is participating in an alternate personnel system known as the Acquisition Demonstration Project (AcqDemo). Among other features, the Demonstration Project replaced GS grade levels with occupational families and pay bands. The band NH-04 is equal to the former GS-14 Step 01 through GS-15 step 10. ATEC uses salary control points to allow for differentiation in the level of positions within the same broad band. This position is subject to the NH-04 Division Chief/Division Chief control point of the ATEC Control Point Policy. Therefore, the salary for this position will be set no higher than $191,900 including locality.

Job Responsibilities

• 1. The Division Chief is responsible to the Technical Director and Director, SED for total mission accomplishment affecting the Division. This involves workforce planning, recruitment and selection of key civilian employees, installation of internal controls, and implementation of Equal Employment Opportunity program objectives. The incumbent judges the performance of personnel and establishes outcomes/goals, guidelines and performance standards in relation to such mission accomplishments. 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 severe time-constraints. 
  
  2. Supervises a division of up to 20 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, 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. Selects and interviews candidates for positions in the section; makes recommendations for appointment, promotion, or reassignment of such positions. Hears and resolves complaints from employees; 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. 
  
  3. The incumbent is responsible for test and evaluation planning, coordination, execution, and reporting of the integrated testing and evaluation of a diverse variety of CBRND Defense systems to include but not limited to contamination avoidance, decontamination, sensors, detectors, and individual protection.  These systems may be Joint, Army, other Service, or other agency programs of record. The division chief performs external coordination as needed to support the acquisition process and the ATEC System Team (AST). The incumbent is responsible for the timeliness and quality of products for assigned systems, including responsiveness to the needs of the customer. The division chief ensures that evaluation plans and reports sufficiently address effectiveness, suitability, survivability, and safety. The incumbent is responsible for integrating developmental and operational testing to the maximum extent feasible; and test programs are tailored and integrated. The division chief also ensures that evaluation planning employs design of experiments, common instrumentation, and modeling and simulation where appropriate to achieve evaluation objectives, as well as guides the development of databases to store and facilitate retrieval of results from diverse tests in support of system evaluations. The incumbent is responsible to ensure evaluation results are factual and presented in a clear concise manner. The incumbent participates in formal reviews of acquisition policies, plans, and requirements documents. 

Job Qualification

• U.S. Citizens who meet the minimum qualification requirements for the following series:

• 0401 - Biologist, click here

• 0801 - General Engineer, click here

• 1301 - Physical Science, click here

• 1515 - Operations Research Analyst, click here

• If this position has an individual occupational requirement and/or allows for substitution of education for experience, and you meet this requirement based on education, you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your application package, or you will be rated ineligible.
  
  If this position requires a job-related license or certificate, you MUST submit a copy of your license or certificate upon request, or you will be rated ineligible.

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

• 1. Technical Competence

  2. Leadership

  3. Test and Evaluation

  4. Oral/Written Communication

  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.
• This position requires the incumbent to submit a Financial Disclosure Statement OGE Form 450.
• One year Supervisory Probationary Period may be required.

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