Summary
You will serve as a Manager in the T&E Services & Fabrication Branch (E42); Test & Evaluation and Prototype Fabrication Division (E40); Expeditionary Warfare & Littoral Ops Department of NAVSURFWARFCTR PANAMA CITY DIVISION. You will serve as the Branch Head. This position is part of the Warfare Centers Personnel Demonstration Project. ND-05 is equivalent to GS-14/15.
Responsibilities
You will lead, manage, and unify a diverse team of scientists, engineers, technicians, project managers, and trades personnel in support of Test and Evaluation and Fabrication and Prototyping of unique military warfare systems.
You will ensure test events and Code E42 support services are in accordance with the NSWC Panama City Division Test and Evaluation Manual and associated command policies, procedures, and processes.
You will provide technical direction and mentoring to support acquisition, test and evaluation, as well as science and technology demonstration test and evaluation efforts.
You will perform resource management including identifying personnel gaps, performing hiring actions, identifying facility and IT needs, and addressing concurrent efforts with competing priorities.
You will perform multi-million dollar contracting efforts to address customer demands related to test and evaluation, vessel leasing, and fabrication services to include monitoring contractors’ cost, schedule, and performance.
You will lead the branch toward meeting the organization’s vision, mission, and goals implementing strategic initiatives aligned to the command's strategic plan.
You will communicate ideas and concepts in writing and orally with all levels of the organization and key stakeholders including Flag and SES levels.
Qualifications
This is an interdisciplinary position and may be filled by a General Engineer (0801 series) or an Operations Research Analyst (1515 series) depending upon the qualifications of the candidate. Applicants in positions with occupational series other than those listed (0801, 1515) may apply; however, you must apply directly to the series listed in this vacancy that is most applicable to your qualifications. Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the ND-04 (GS-12/13 equivalent) pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional engineer or scientist leading a team of engineers, scientists, or technicians in the test and evaluation (T&E) of manned or unmanned systems. Resume must demonstrate experience in at least two of the following four examples: (1) overseeing personnel and resources for the T&E execution of manned or unmanned systems; (2) mentoring others on T&E processes, policies, and procedures; (3) performing project management including addressing concurrent efforts with competing priorities; (4) planning and executing project goals within budget and schedule. 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 AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf Operations Research Series 1515 (opm.gov) 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
Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: FOR THE 0801 SERIES - A. 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 B. 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 C. 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 D. 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 E. 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. FOR THE 1515 - Operations Research Series: A degree in operations research; or related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics, and at least 3 of the 24 semester hours were in calculus.