SUPERVISORY INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER/SCIENTIST

Summary

You will serve as the Integrated Assessments Branch Head in the Mission Engineering and Analysis Division, Warfare Effectiveness Department of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV. This position is equivalent to a GS-13/14.

Duties

• •You will supervise a Branch comprised of junior level, journey level and senior level operation research analysts and military officers (O5-O4).
• •You will provide analysis/modeling expertise to represent Navy interests in joint service analytic approaches and modeling tools used to support multiple mission areas program and technology decisions.
• •You will lead a management team in advanced weapons system studies to decide future needs in warfare mission areas.
• •You will be responsible for overseeing the development and application of policies, processes, and best practices, and assessing the current and future staffing and skills required to support program teams, science.
• •You will develop or direct development of new methods and unique computer analysis models when existing techniques are determined to be inadequate for the problem being addressed.
• •You will assist in the recruiting, hiring and training of lower-graded employees assigned to the incumbent for specific projects and studies.

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 (NM-03) pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate duties related to the following: 1) Conducting and training others in current operational research tools and techniques, operational planning, programming requirements, and mission and campaign level analysis and reporting processes to support programming and budget decisions 2) Utilizing research or analytical problem-solving methods to identify interrelated program issues, draw conclusions, and recommend apt solutions 3) Utilizing specialized statistical methods, operations research methods, or mathematical reasoning to resolve ad hoc assignments and strategic or operational problems across naval aviation missions 4) Establishing qualitative and quantitative criteria for estimating effectiveness of proposed systems and alternatives 5) Creating analysis reports, using sound mathematical reasoning and operations research methods, to communicate recommendations or findings to senior leaders 6) Leading teams in the execution of warfare effectiveness analysis projects (both technical and financial management of studies) 7) Communicating with senior leadership in the civilian and military on project management, status reporting, findings, and recommendations. 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 Individual Occupational Requirements: 0801: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801/ 1515: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/operations-research-series-1515/ 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: 0801: A. 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. 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)1, 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)2 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. 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 the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. 4. 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.) 1515: Degree: in operations research; or 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. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus.