Supervisory General Engineer

Job summary

You will serve as a Supervisory General Engineer as the site director for the Fleet Support Team (FST) of FLEET READINESS CENTER SOUTHWEST.

Major duties

You will lead and manage a large, complex technical organization to provide total life cycle support to Naval Aviation Weapons Systems utilizing a wide range of engineering, logistics, program management, and other related technical disciplines. You will exercise authority to oversee the overall planning, direction, and timely execution of programs relating to the integration and interface of systems/platforms to meet mission needs. You will approve and/or modify multi-year and long-range organizational resources regarding training, workload execution, and capabilities development expenditures developed by managers. You will establish support requirements through active participation in the DoD and Navy Planning, Programming, and Budget System (PPBS) process. You will serve as a liaison within aviation, technical, and industrial communities for in-service issues, military services, and external customers. You will oversee the development of cost analysis tradeoffs for varying degrees of capability to ensure requirements are balanced with affordability. You will negotiate conflicts between engineering, Research Development Test and Evaluation (RDTE), logistics, contractors, and program management. You will ensure technical engineering competence, logistics support, knowledge, and professional services required to sustain the weapon systems, associated components, and related support.

Qualification

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-14) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: (1) Directing work that has significant impact on national defense as well as on aircraft and systems maintenance/acquisition to support an agency; (2) Exercising supervisory responsibilities and day-to-day technical oversight of engineering and logistics positions, as well as providing technical support and making final decisions for personnel actions; (3) Leading and managing a large, complex organization which provides total life cycle support to Naval Aviation and Weapons Systems utilizing a wide range of engineering, logistics, program management and related technical disciplines to ensure the provision of quality personnel through recruitment, training, and certification; (4) Managing the development of policy changes in response to changes in levels of appropriations along with monitoring financial data, evaluating budget submissions, and coordinating development of financial reports; and (5) Serving as a liaison within aviation, technical, and industrial communities for in-service issues, support to other military services, foreign military services, and external customers. 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.

Evaluations

When the application process is complete, we will review your resume to ensure you meet the hiring eligibility and qualification requirements listed in this announcement. You will be rated based on the information provided in your resume and application package, along with your supporting documentation to determine your ability to demonstrate the following competencies: Financial Management Oral Communication Developing Others Managing Human Resources Problem Solving Strategic Thinking This recruitment will utilize the following technical assessment tools: (1) Structured Resume Review; (2) Structured Interview You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in your resume as that information may be taken into consideration during the selection process. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documentation. If after reviewing your resume and supporting documentation, a determination is made that you inflated your qualifications and/or experience, your score may be adjusted to more accurately reflect your abilities or you may be found ineligible/not qualified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment. All eligibility, qualifications, and time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.