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This position is being filled under an Expedited Hiring Authority (EHA). This position is part of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
Major Duties
As a General Engineer/Physical Scientist at the GS-0801/1301-13/14 some of your typical work assignments may include:
- Works with office leadership and other senior DoD and Intelligence Community science and technology representatives as the subject matter expert (SME) for joint research and development activities focused on broad analytical and technical capabilities to locate, define, and characterize hard and deeply buried targets (HDBT) and whole WMD threats at risk. Serves as scientific expert for the office's conduct or support to test planning, management, safe execution, and result analysis of testing technology demonstrations, and exercises supporting DoD and Federal agencies programs to counter WMD threats.
- Advocates and implements research programs supporting HDBT technologies and applications, engineering and modeling methodologies, vulnerability analysis and systems integration to meet WMD target defeat requirements.
- Conceives, plans and manages world-class scientific and technical research and mission critical component analysis to identify and quantify foreign system vulnerabilities.
- Serves as a source selection board member representing both the Office and the Department on multi-million dollar procurements. Represents CX as an SME for small business innovative research and development proposal evaluation and selection.
- Maintains close contact with and initiates outreach efforts within the research and development communities, national laboratories, academia, DoD scientific communities, Intelligence Community, and international partners and directs a technically diverse, multi-agency government and contractor workforce in support of DTRA's combating WMD mission partners for the development of technologies required to meet a dynamic and expanding threat.
- Provides scientific review of professional studies, research, technology proposals and test and evaluation of counter-WMD technologies. Independently conducts literature searches, collects published information and reports, reviews and studies them, and disseminates and briefs evaluations.
- Serves as the scientific liaison to other federal agencies on underground facility and WMD production characterization tools and modeling. Provides recommendations and technical advice to DTRA and Intelligence Community principles, DoD and other federal agencies based on thorough understanding of military and federal policies, procedures, regulatory requirements, and technical knowledge of scientific methods.
Qualifications
You may qualify at the GS 13 , if you fulfill the following qualifications: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service as listed below: Leading, managing, or overseeing complex and diverse Research Development Test & Evaluation efforts. Experience with application of new TTP to complex hard targeting and WMD targeting problems. Creating and gaining approval for new, innovative technology-centric programs designed to solve long-standing and difficult problems. Managing contractors, technologists and program managers in the pursuit of new effects-base weaponeering, fragility and battle damage assessments. You may qualify at the GS 14 , if you fulfill the following qualifications: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service as listed below: Leading, managing, or overseeing complex and diverse Research Development Test & Evaluation efforts. Experience with application of new TTP to complex hard targeting and WMD targeting problems. Creating and gaining approval for new, innovative technology-centric programs designed to solve long-standing and difficult problems. Managing contractors, technologists and program managers in the pursuit of new effects-base weaponeering, fragility and battle damage assessments. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 0801/1301, series as listed below: 0801 Series:
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.
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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 https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801/1301 Series:
Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics.
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Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
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Pay Range
$102,663.00 - $157,709.00