General Engineer (Keystone)

Summary

See below for important information regarding this job. Additional vacancies may be filled from this announcement. This position is a Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) Keystone Program Opening. Prior to appointment, all candidates will be required to sign a Keystone Conditions of Employment Agreement. Additional vacancies may be filled from this announcement.

Duties

• •This is an entry-level (developmental) career ladder position in the Pricing Division of the Cost and Pricing Command
• •Provide technical pricing support for defense acquisition program contract proposals.
• •Familiarity with federal statutes, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), DCMA policies and procedures applicable to technical pricing support, engineering surveillance, analysis, and support.
• •Acquire essential knowledge of engineering surveillance activities such as Contract Receipt and Review (CRR) related to contract cost, schedule and performance, Independent Research and Development/Bid and Proposal expenses.
• •Acquire essential knowledge of engineering surveillance activities such as first article inspections, production, plant layout, manufacturing processes and techniques, and contract schedule changes.
• •Become familiar with DCMA engineering surveillance performance indicators to assess the contractor's performance.
• •Become familiar with contractor performance data including systems engineering, software engineering, manufacturing engineering, supply chain management, industrial analysis, and EVM performance for trends.
• •Attend and complete required training as outlined in the Training Plan, to include Acquisition Workforce Back to Basics requirements.
• •Complete administrative actions (such as submitting training forms) and actively participate in mentoring to improve knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Qualifications

To qualify for an General Engineer (Keystone), your resume and supporting documentation must support: A. Basic Requirement: A Bachelor's Degree or higherin professional engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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 A 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 professional 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: A. 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. B. 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, and Puerto Rico. C. Specified academic courses -- 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 above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in the Basic Requirements above. D. Related curriculum -- 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 1 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. AND B. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-07 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-05 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes: - Knowledge of engineering principles, practices, methodologies, and theories. - Knowledge of the design, engineering management, and engineering support of complex hardware and software systems. - Knowledge of engineering techniques. - Knowledge of statistical techniques and terminology required to determine sample sizes, gather and analyze data, and interpret results. - Skill in effective oral and written communications in order to prepare and make formal and informal presentations. OR C. Education Substitution: Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. Education must be from a college or university accredited by an organization approved by the U.S. Department of Education. See http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Search.aspx. If using education to meet basic qualifications, YOU MUST SUBMIT A TRANSCRIPT as supplemental documentation. To qualify based on education in lieu of specialized experience, you must possess: 1 year of graduate-level education or superior academic achievement. OR D. Combination: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualifications and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grade GS- 07 E. Additional Experience and Training Provisions for Graduates of Engineering Programs: a) Superior academic achievement at the baccalaureate level in an eng