Job summary

You will serve as the Weapons System Chief Engineer in the Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake, CA

Major duties

You will serve as a consultant, furnishing advanced scientific and technical guidance and recommendations to top-level administrative and technical management officials. You will provide independent and authoritative technical advice on advanced complex state-of the art technical issues, projects, or programs to other experts and senior leaders. You will be responsible for managing high level and challenging research and development programs and for technically leading the teams who carry out the engineering and scientific work. You will establish and execute Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) Weapons Development Strategy. You will conduct and assess independant and leading edge Naval weapon systems and weapon system integration. You will maintain record of weapons initiatives including their constituent efforts and progress and success in accomplishing their desired intent. You will serve as the centers primary advocate for weapons proposals, publications, presentations, and patents.

Qualification

The applicant is to provide a separate narrative statement which describes fully, but concisely, how his/her experience supports each of the following Mandatory Technical Qualifications. Each technical qualification narrative should not exceed 2 pages. Failure to address these specific qualifications in a separate narrative statement will eliminate you from consideration: 1. Experience in establishing technical vision and strategic focus for Weapons Development efforts and implementing in a continuously changing environment. 2. Ability to lead Research & Development (R&D) in complex Naval weapon systems and weapon systems integration projects toward meeting NAWCWD, DON, and DOD mission and goals. Skilled in communicating ideas and risks clearly and concisely both orally and in writing resulting in motivating people to action. Experience leading workforce development efforts and mentoring/ coaching technical subject matter experts in Weapons Development. Facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. 3. Demonstrated multidisciplinary technical expertise in Naval weapon systems and weapon systems integration. Demonstrated significant specialized experience in a specific scientific or technical field gained through high-level basic and applied research, experimental development, and/or systems engineering, including experience in planning and executing difficult and highly technical programs of national significance or planning and executing specialized programs that show outstanding attainments in the field of research or consultation. 4. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple risks, issues and projects simultaneously to achieve mission requirements for a technical organization including managing budget, schedule, workforce, and technology. Knowledge and understanding of budgeting and execution of financial operations within the Navy Working Capital Fund (NWCF). Knowledge of DOD acquisition policy and strategy. 5. Demonstrated skill in building strategic partnerships and alliances in other DOD and DON organizations, as well as academia and industry to build consensus and develop solutions on critical DOD or DON goals in the area of weapon systems and weapon systems integration. 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=GS-PROF and 0801 Professional Engineering Series 1310 Physics Series 1520 Mathematics Series 1550 Computer Science Series 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: For 0800 Professional Engineering Series: A. Degree: Engineering. Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher engineering degree from an accredited college or university. 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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. -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: (I) 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; or (II) 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; or (III) 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; or (IV) 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.) For 1310 Physics Series A. Degree: physics; or related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics. -or- B. Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in physics totaling at least 24 semester hours, plus appropriate experience or additional education. In either A or B above, the courses must have included a fundamental course in general physics and, in addition, courses in any two of the following: electricity and magnetism, heat, light, mechanics, modern physics, and sound. For 1520 Mathematics Series A. Degree: mathematics; or the equivalent of a major that included at least 24 semester hours in mathematics. -or- B. Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in mathematics (including at least 24 semester hours in mathematics), as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. The total course work in either A or B above must have included differential and integral calculus and, in addition, four advanced mathematics courses requiring calculus or equivalent mathematics courses as a prerequisite. For 1550 Computer Science Series A. Bachelor's degree in computer science -or- B. Bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus. All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions. An advanced degree of Master's or Ph.D. in one of the educational fields listed above is highly desirable.

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, along with your supporting documentation to determine your ability to demonstrate the mandatory technical qualifications listed above. 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, you may be found ineligible/not qualified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment. All qualifications requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.