SUPERVISORY GENERAL ENGINEER

Summary

You will serve as a SUPERVISORY GENERAL ENGINEER in the ORDNANCE TEST & EVALUATION DIVISION, WEAPONS & ENERGETICS DEPARTMENT of NAVAIRWARCENWPNDIV CHINA LAKE.

Duties

• •You will serve as Division Head, providing technical oversight and management direction for propulsion, non-destructive test and evaluation in the areas of radiography, environmental conditioning, and shock and vibration.
• •You will be held accountable for overall management of the Division, developing long-range Test and Evaluation goals, plans and objectives for the Division, and for the success of ordnance Test and Evaluation activities.
• •You will exercise supervisory responsibilities for approximately 100 Division staff in Test and Evaluation (propulsion, radiographic, shock and vibration, climatic, detonation physics, warhead testing, and related engineering activities).
• •You will ensure documentation for test activities is thorough and accurate, including standard operating procedures, test plans, test procedures, quality assurance metrics, cost estimates, etc.
• •You will make recommendations for field testing, using sub- or full-scale weapons to meet the requirements of program.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13/14 grade level or NM-04 pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Direct technical experience executing or overseeing complex technical test activities across complex disciplines, such as propulsion testing, detonation physics, warhead evaluation, environmental conditioning, or non-destructive evaluation (radiography), ensuring that Standard Operating Procedures and safety protocols are strictly followed; 2) Managing the full lifecycle of test programs from initial planning, resource estimation, and budgeting to the validation/verification and formal reporting of test results to customers; 3) Providing first line technical supervision, mentorship or operational direction to multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, scientists, and technicians, matching technical competencies to mission requirements and fostering compliance with merit and safety standards. 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 IOR: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801/ 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 positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess: Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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.