ENGINEER

Summary

You will serve as an ENGINEER in the Sensor Integration and Technology Department (LX), Radar Technologies Division (LXL), Radar Sustainment and Antenna Test Branch (LXLT) of NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER. This position is part of the Warfare Centers Personnel Demonstration Project. The ND-05 pay band encompasses positions equivalent to the GS-14 and GS-15.

Duties

• •You will serve as the Legacy Radar Chief Engineer supporting the acquisition, and sustainment of legacy U.S. Navy radar and electromagnetic warfare (EW) systems, subsystems, and RF and microwave devices for the Radar Technologies Division.
• •You will provides leadership to internal and external engineering communities in the areas of legacy rotating and passively scanned arrays and their sub-systems and repair, test and evaluation methodologies to support legacy radars.
• •You will inform and review hardware trouble-shooting, directing component repair, conducting and evaluating technical research, directing parts acquisition, conducting risk analysis and hazard analysis, and leading engineering change proposals (ECP).
• •You will review procedure development, review and approve variances, and prepare and review Statement of Work (SOW) generation and contract avenues such as Other Transaction Authorities (OTA) for efforts related to the division's assignment.
• •You will lead teams to trouble-shoot, test and define specifications necessary to propose alternative technical solutions for long term radar system support and to mitigate diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortage (DMSMS) issues.
• •You will lead teams related to development of test plans and development of in-depth test procedures to increase throughput while maintaining the highest quality deliverables.
• •You will will have the ability to perform program management, strategic planning, contract development and oversight, budget development, and integrated product team management in support of depot services and engineering efforts.
• •You will provide expert advice to high-level program office and program executive office leadership on a variety of subjects, including hardware design, root cause analysis, test data analysis, interoperability, and CONOPS for radar and EW systems.

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. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: as a professional Engineer, demonstrating operational and technical knowledge of all aspects of legacy rotating and passive array technologies related to fielded radar or similar systems for improved efficiency and execution of program operations in alignment with mission requirements. 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 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: 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.