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These positions are being filled under the Expedited Hiring Authority (EHA) for Defense Acquisition Workforce Positions in accordance with 10 USC § 1705(g). These positions are located at Army Evaluation Center (AEC) in various directorates, at APG, Maryland. The Directorates hiring from this announcement include: Mounted Systems Evaluation Directorate, Soldier Evaluation Directorate, Aviation and Fires Evaluation Directorate, C4ISR Evaluation Directorate.
Major Duties
This is an open continuous announcement. The initial cut-off date for referral is 02/05/2020 after this date additional referral lists will be created as vacancies are available. If you are referred and not selected or receive a letter indicating you were ineligible because of missing documents you must complete a new application package for this vacancy to receive further consideration.
The U.S. Army Evaluation Center (AEC) is participating in an alternate personnel system known as the Acquisition Demonstration Project (Acq Demo). Among other features, the Demonstration Project replaced GS grade levels with occupational families and pay bands. The band NH03 is equal to the former GS-12 step 01 through GS-13 step 10. AEC uses salary control points within the salary range to allow for differentiation in the level of positions within the same broadband. Therefore, the salary for this position will be set no higher than $133,465.00.
These positions lead and facilitate ATEC's test and evaluation efforts for systems within the Effectiveness Directorates of AEC by performing duties as a Test Manager, Safety Evaluator, Performance Evaluator, and/or AST Chair. The Effectiveness Directorates serve as the focal point within the Army Evaluation Center (AEC) for overall management responsibility of developmental testing (DT) and system evaluations (effectiveness, suitability, survivability, and safety) of materiel systems and associated software. The Effectiveness Directorates include: Mounted Systems Evaluation Directorate, Aviation and Fires Evaluation Directorate, C4, Intel, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Evaluation Directorate, and Soldier Evaluation Directorate.
- Performs a broad range of analyses for assigned weapon systems to include contract management.
- Responsible for the overall evaluation of assigned system(s),to include technical performance in critical areas, design stability/maturity, and assessment of risk and progress toward meeting key performance parameters (KPPs), key system attributes (KSAs), operational utility, and effectiveness, suitability, and survivability.
- Serves as a subject matter expert on the system or commodity being evaluated and focuses on evaluating system effectiveness.
- Responsible for overall development of test execution (planning through data delivery) with subordinate organizations and Program Manager (PM) (for contractor testing).
- Responsible for generating Safety Releases (SRs) for testing involving Soldiers and Safety Confirmations (SCs) in support of equipping, fielding, and milestone decisions for assigned system(s) and ensuring safety is addressed in evaluation reports.
- Responsible for integrating all Test & Evaluation activities and synchronizing all Army Systems Team (AST) products and coordinating with AST members for all formal products and briefings.
Qualifications
US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet BOTH the education and experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.Additional information about transcripts is in this document. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: To qualify based on your work experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as: 1) Managing projects/ programs (cost/schedule/performance) 2) Analyzing data and presenting results 3) Authoring reports and 4) Working on teams. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service NH-02/GS-11. IN ADDITION TO MEETING THE REQUIRED SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE ABOVE, ALL CANDIDATES MUST MEET THE REQURIED BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS LISTED BELOW. Biologist (0401) Basic Educational Requirement - (Transcripts Required at time of application):
Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher degree in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position.
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Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major, as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Physical Scientist (1301) Basic Educational Requirement - (Transcripts Required at time of application): 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. Operations Research Analyst (1515) Basic Educational Requirement - (Transcripts Required at time of application): Degree: in operations research;
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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. General Engineer (0801) Basic Educational Requirement-(Transcripts Required at time of application): Degree: professional engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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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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 professional 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:
-Professional registration -- Current registration as a professional engineer 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.
-Written Test-- Evidence of having successfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for professional registration, which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Applicants who have passed the EIT examination and have completed all the requirements for either (a) a bachelor's degree in engineering technology (BET) from an accredited college of university that included 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences, or (b) a BET from a program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) may be rated eligible for certain engineering positions at GS-5. Eligibility is limited to positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of the engineering technology program. Applicants for positions that involve highly technical research, development, or similar functions requiring an advanced level of competence in basic science must meet the basic requirements in paragraph A. Because of the diversity in kind and quality of BET programs, graduates of other BET programs are required to complete at least 1 year of additional education or highly technical work experience of such nature as to provide reasonable assurance of the possession of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for professional engineering competence. The adequacy of this background must be demonstrated by passing the EIT examination.
-Specified academic courses -- 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. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph A.
-Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a 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.) You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency (knowledge, skills, abilities) in the following areas:
LeadershipProgram ManagementTechnical CompetenceWritten Communication
Pay Range
$86,335.00 - $133,465.00