Job Summary
- This position may be filled by temporary promotion or temporary reassignment. - Temporary promotion/reassignment may be extended up to a maximum of five years. - Competitive temporary promotion or reassignment may be made permanent without further competition.
Major Duties
- General Engineer on the ULCANS and Protection Systems Team under the Combat Capabilities Development Command- Soldier Center's (CCDC-SC) Expeditionary Maneuver Support Division (EMSD).
- This position is matrixed to the Product Manager Force Sustainment Systems (PM-FSS) Expeditionary Support Division.
- You will be responsible for advancing the state of the art and creating, testing, developing, modifying, and training others on the use of new or substantially improved end items in the form of:
- Camouflage, concealment, and other large-scale protection equipment, systems, materials, processes, procedures and techniques.
- You will furnish technical advice and scientific data regarding advanced technologies, specifications and standards in extremity protection systems technology areas to engineers within the center and to other government agencies and contractors.
- You will conduct complex studies with respect to anthropometric changes in body measurements and movements related to the development of military protective footwear and extremity protection systems.
Qualifications
Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Department of Army Civilian EmployeesInteragency Career Transition Assistance PlanMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible In order to qualify, you must meet the 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. Basic Requirement for General Engineer: A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) 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. 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: 1. 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. 2. 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, or Puerto Rico. 3. 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. 4. 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 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. Basic Requirement for Physical Scientist: A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in 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. OR B. Combination of Education and Experience: Courses equivalent to one of the majors, as 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. Basic Requirement for Operations Research Analyst: Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in operations research; or a degree with 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. In addition to meeting the basic requirement(s) above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience for DB-03 high end of the Pay Band equivalent to GS-13 and/or GS-14: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1) Organizing and directing basic and applied research, technology integration, product development, project engineering, acquisition program management, testing and standardization pertaining to protection projects/systems; 2) Organizing and carrying out developmental or operational testing, evaluations, providing training, and/or fielding of military equipment; 3) Identifying problems and/or deficiencies and generating reports or briefings to stakeholders; 4) Planning programs/projects involved with manpower, milestones, and funding schedules; and 5) Experience building customer/partnership initiatives between different organizations and agencies. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service DB-02. Please note: Pay Band DB-03 is equivalent to a GS-12 through GS-14 grade level and Pay Band DB-02 is equivalent to a GS-05 through GS-11 grade levels. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
Engineering and TechnologyPlanning and EvaluatingProgram/Project ManagementProject ManagementSystems Testing and Evaluation
Pay Range
$85,428.00 - $156,053.00