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These vacancies are for two Interdisciplinary positions located in the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, Army Evaluation Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. The mission of the US Army Evaluation Center (AEC) is to plan, support, conduct, and provide independent evaluations, assessments, and experiments in order to provide essential information to decision-makers supporting the American Warfighter.
Major Duties
- Performs a broad range of analyses for difficult-to-define, controversial, new, or novel systems/functions of major agency, national, or international impact within assigned portfolio.
- Works at a senior level to define, integrate, and implement strategic direction which results in long-term impact to Army evaluation processes and procedures.
- As a recognized technical authority on test planning, provides guidance to AST; and oversees development of test execution (planning through data delivery) with subordinate organizations and Program Manager (PM) (for contractor testing).
- Identifies and resolves issues that cross-organizational boundaries (PEO, PM, materiel developer, LCMC safety offices, etc.); and develops measures to evaluate safety of assigned systems.
- Represents the Commanding General (CG), sets reasonable suspense dates for development and review of documents; reports to multiple levels of leadership; and presents briefings to stakeholders for approval.
- Oversees evaluation of assigned system(s); and identifies and resolves highly complex evaluation problems.
Qualifications
US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the 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.
Experience required: 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) Planning, analyzing, and reporting of test and/or evaluation programs AND 2) Providing solutions to mission critical test and/or evaluation problems; AND 3) Managing the projects and studies of a test and/or evaluation program. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service NH-03/GS-13. In addition to meeting the specialized experience, you must also meet the Minimum/Basic Education requirement for this position. Basic Educational Requirement - General Natural Resources Management and Biological Sciences Series, 0401:
Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher degree in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position.-OR-Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major, as shown in above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Basic Educational Requirement - Engineering Series - 0801 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.) Basic Educational Requirement - Physical Scientist - 1301:
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. or 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. Basic Educational Requirement - Operations Research Analyst - 1515:
Degree: in operations research; or 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.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Planning & Evaluating Systems Testing and Evaluation Modeling & Simulation Leadership Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, no substitution of experience is allowed.
Pay Range
$121,316.00 - $170,800.00