TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

Summary

You will serve as a ENGINEER (TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER) in the TEST AND EVALUATION DEPARTMENT, UNDERSEA SYSTEMS ACQUISTION AND ASSESSMENT DIVISION of NAVUNSEAWARCENDIV KEYPORT WA. This is not a high-grade position; therefore, the salary may be limited to a GS-14, Step 10 (currently $196,954).

Duties

• •You will lead complex technical projects supporting undersea weapons systems by managing cost, schedule, technical performance, risk identification, and stakeholder coordination to ensure successful execution.
• •You will determine priorities, provide direction and oversight to assigned personnel, and ensure quality products and services are delivered to internal and external customers.
• •You will collaborate with stakeholders to define and refine project scope, tasking, schedule, and budget within established program guidelines while managing assigned project budgets and tracking expenditures.
• •You will apply engineering expertise to guide project execution, address technical issues, apply systems engineering principles, and provide technical direction and briefings as needed.
• •You will develop and implement Key Performance Indicators and metrics, including Earned Value Management principles, to assess project health and assign corrective actions.
• •You will actively identify, manage, and communicate project risks and issues while negotiating with resource managers for workforce shaping and personnel tasking decisions.
• •You will participate in the hiring process, develop knowledge skills and abilities criteria, serve on rating panels, and provide performance feedback and mentoring to project leads.

Qualifications

In addition to the basic education requirements, your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the ND-04 pay band (GS-12/13 grade level equivalency) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: As a professional engineer leading complex technical projects supporting undersea weapons or comparable defense systems, including responsibility for project cost, schedule, technical performance, risk management, and stakeholder coordination. 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.