General Engineer with Security Clearance

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Job description

Duties Serves as a program authority in assigned customer/PEO/PM and/or Tech Base programs and requires specific knowledge of one or more of the following technical disciplines. Conceives, defends, and monitors policies and develops both short/long range plans for assigned areas and activities in Tactical Applications. Guides Armaments Center teams to provide proposals against requests from external customers, such as OSD, ASA(ALT), AFC, and requirements Community, SOCOM, COCOMs, PM Mission Command, other PEO/PM Must also have the ability to identify risk areas and provide strategic guidance to cross-functional Armaments Center teams, including ARDEC technical leads, APOs, PIO and FM Tech Base personnel Requirements Conditions of Employment Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation. This position requires the incumbent to be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret Clearance. This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 25% of the time. Moving expenses are not authorized for this position. All applicants (including current federal employees) are required to upload official/unofficial college/university transcripts (or copy thereof). College/university transcripts (official/unofficial) MUST include name of applicant, name of college/university, type of degree, discipline, and date degree awarded. When applying to positions with positive education requirements or when intending to qualify themselves based in whole or part on education This is a temporary position intended to last 3 years. A temporary position may be extended to a maximum of three years and may be terminated at any time during the duration of the appointment, depending upon the needs of management. This position requires pre-employment financial disclosure and annually thereafter in accordance with DoD Directive 5500-7-R This is an Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Workforce position. Selectee must meet position requirements for practitioner level in Engineering and Technical Management within 60 months of entrance on duty. Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act Career Field Position. Certification requirements may be found in the Defense Acquisition University Catalog at Qualifications Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Applying on Time-Limited Assignments In order to qualify, you must meet the 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 . This position is also being filled under announcement number DAFNR1. Flexible Length Renewable Term (FLRT) employees MUST apply under announcement number DAFNR1 as reinstatement eligible If you wish to be considered. Basic Requirement for General Engineer: 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 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. OR B. Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical 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 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 example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. 2. Written Test - 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, or Puerto Rico. 3. Specified academic courses - Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. 4. Related Curriculum - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. (You MUST submit a copy of your transcripts along with a letter of reference stating that you have at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. The letter must be signed by the engineer who provided the professional engineer supervision. It must also include their name, phone number, and list their engineer credentials such as engineer education or professional certificates). In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as 1)Administratively and technically manages an interdisciplinary professional staff engaged in acquisition life cycle engineering of indirect fire design, development, & evaluation competency areas and/or 2) Expertise in project planning, resourcing, and execution, leading groups or teams, assigning work assignments, establishing objectives, roadmaps and strategic plans, and resolving administrative, technical and personnel problems and/or 3) Implementing acquisition engineering policy and briefing on engineering project status, accomplishments, and challenges. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Decision Making
General Engineering
Oral Communication
Problem SolvingEducation Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone no substitution of education for experience is permitted. 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 foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: . Additional information Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration. You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. Three year trial/probationary period may be required. Direct deposit of pay is required. Position may be filled as a temporary appointment NTE 3 years, if a candidate is not a current permanent Army employee. Temporary appointments may be extended up to a maximum of three years. Position may be filled as a time-limited promotion, reassignment or change to lower grade not to exceed (NTE) 3 years by a current 3 permanent Army employee. Time-limited promotions may be extended up to a maximum of five years . click apply for full job details

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