Interdisciplinary Supervisory Engineer/Scientist

Summary
You will serve as an INTERDISCIPLINARY SUPERVISORY ENGINEER/SCIENTIST Body Mounted & Survival Systems Branch Head in the Aircrew Protection and Survivability Division in the HUMAN SYSTEM ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
The incumbent will lead, either personally or through subordinates, research, development, and experimental investigations of complex operator-machine problems on new and reconfigured Naval aircraft weapons systems by managing the personnel and laboratory capabilities of the branch.
This job is open to

• Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL)
  Federal employees who meet the definition of a "surplus" or "displaced" employee.
• Internal to an agency
  Current federal employees of this agency.
• Land & base management
  Certain current or former term or temporary federal employees of a land or base management agency.
• Military spouses
• Special authorities
  Individuals eligible under a special authority not listed above, but defined in the federal hiring regulations.
• Veterans

Clarification from the agency
Current permanent employees of DoD, Former permanent federal employees, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) eligibles, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Preference eligibles and DoD Retained Grade Preference eligibles, and VEOA eligibles.
Duties

• You will identify development and training needs of employees and provides for such development and training. As needed, consults with specialists on training needs and on training problems related to the Branch supervised.
• You will review the substance of Technical Reports, Technical memoranda and other technical output of the professionals in the Branch.
• You will assist in exercising technical and administrative control of the Branch.
• You will manage Branch activities to assure adequate, coordinated, and timely execution. Keeps informed on projects and investigations in progress, as to status, interim results, and the possible need to modify or terminate the work.
• You will provide well-documented standards, processes, and procedures and continually provides training and certification programs to ensure that Branch personnel are current and proficient.
• You will assist in developing Branch funding plan for incorporation in the Division budgetary requirements for current and proposed programs. Manages financial resources within the assigned budget.
• You will develop plans and obtains funds for acquisition of facilities, test equipment, and software needed to more effectively conduct the Branch work and to effect economies of operation.
• You will plan, organize, and conduct complete development, test and evaluation programs in the area of complex operator-machine interfaces.
• You will serve as the technical airworthiness authority for engineering products and subject matter technical areas that fall under the Branch's cognizance for Aircrew Life Support Systems (ALSS).
• You will communicate engineering issues, including resolution strategies and paths forward, program status, and test results to high-level DoD officials, engineers/scientists, foreign officers, and other high-level civilian leaders as needed.

Requirements
Conditions of Employment

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Acquisition Functional Area and category assigned to the position is required within established category timeframes.
• This position is a designated Critical Acquisition Position (CAP). You must sign a three-year tenure agreement prior to assuming the position unless a tenure waiver is approved.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• Supervisors in the executive branch have a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. You will be required to review the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct at 5 CFR 2635.101.

Qualifications
Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12/13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1.) Knowledge in man machine integration analysis and application related to naval aviation aircrew and maintainers. 2.) Full life cycle engineering, system integration, and sustainment support for Aircrew Life Support Systems (ALSS) and related equipment. Emphasis is on the development, test and evaluation, and sustainment support of life support equipment to effectively manage threats to aircrew and passengers during flight operations to enable mission completion and success. 3.) Ability to use quantitative and analytical techniques. This includes the ability to think logically to determine the relevance and reliability of given source material, reach conclusions, and report findings in a concise, coherent manner.
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
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.
Education
SERIES 0413:
Degree: in one of the basic animal sciences or physiology; or a related discipline or field of science that included at least 24 semester hours in the basic animal sciences, of which 10 semester hours were in animal physiology.
Courses in physiology, animal or human physiology, cellular physiology, or courses that were well oriented toward animal or human physiology, e.g., some advanced courses in biochemistry, are qualifying as animal physiology courses. Courses in related fields such as cytology and microbiology (including microbial physiology) may also be qualifying, provided the course work dealt directly with the application of scientific principles underlying animal physiology, or with the methodology and techniques applied in animal physiology work.
SERIES 0801:
Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:
Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
OR
Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), 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 achieved 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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org
OR
Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 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 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.
OR
Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above)
OR
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 one 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.
SERIES 1301:
Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics.
OR
Combination of education and experience education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
SERIES 1384:
Degree: textile technology.
OR
Combination of education and experience courses equivalent to a major in textile technology that included at least 20 semester hours in textile technology and closely related subjects, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
SERIES 1550:
Bachelor's degree in computer science
OR
Bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus. All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions.
Additional information
The incumbent of this position serves as the Body Mounted & Survival Systems Branch Head in the Aircrew Protection and Survivability Division in the Human Systems Engineering Department. The Body Mounted & Survival Systems Branch has full life cycle engineering responsibility for development, acquisition, and support of aircrew body mounted systems for all aircraft types. Systems are designed, developed, and fielded to protect from and/or neutralize inherent threats to aviators involved in military flight operations. Systems are required to provide protection during normal flight operations, emergency egress/escape, survival, and evasion. Areas of expertise include: chemical and biological protection of the body; protective devices for impact and maneuvering acceleration (G-loads), fire/thermal protection, hyper- and hypothermia (including cold water immersion and frostbite), survival items, personnel flotation and flotation devices, and search and rescue systems. This branch possesses the facilities for design, rapid prototyping, evaluation and investigation of these systems. This branch supports all phases of the acquisition cycle with direct sponsorship from platform program managers, external Navy sources, other services and industry.
This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program.
Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement.
A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments.
Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf
PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation.
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