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This position is located in the Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Technology Security Administration (DTSA), Technology Directorate (TD). As a recognized expert, the incumbent performs professional engineering or scientific work reviewing and developing coordinated DoD recommendations on international transfers of defense-related goods, services, and technologies to ensure they are consistent with U.S. national security interest.
Major Duties
This is a Direct Hire Public Notice, under this recruitment, applications will be accepted for each location and/or installation identified in this Public Notice and selections are made for vacancies as they occur. There may or may not be actual/projected vacancies at the time you submit your application.
This Public Notice is to gather applications which may or may not result in a referral or selection.
Please read this Public Notice in its entirety prior to submitting your application for consideration.
Your typical work assignments may include the following:
- Provides engineering and scientific analyses and recommendations in area(s) of expertise, and serves as the DTSA focal point in assigned technology area(s).
- Weighs and considers relevant technical capabilities and achievements of foreign nations when decisions on the control of defense related technology is being made.
- Reviews and analyzes research, development, and production trends in area(s) of responsibility to assess the national security aspects of the particular militarily critical technology and advises senior leaders of trends which potentially impact national security.
- Keeps abreast of state-of-the-art developments and advancements in engineering and science by attending symposiums, trade shows, reviewing technical literature, and visiting private sector facilities.
Qualifications
The Engineer occupation has specific educational requirements which apply to all accountant positions. To Qualify, applicants must meet the following Basic Requirement: BASIC REQUIREMENT
A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelors 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. 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)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 registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and 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 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. 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 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.) The General Physical Science series has specific educational requirements which apply to all accountant positions. To Qualify, applicants must meet the following Basic Requirement: A. 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 B. 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. You may qualify at the GS-14 level, if you fulfill the following qualification requirement: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service (experience may have been gained in the private sector) performing duties in the following areas: resolving unique or novel problems conditions or issues; or significantly altering standard practices, equipment devices, processes and known techniques; executing projects representing an important segment of the agency's operating programs and/or methods OR applying experimental theories and/or new applications or developments to extend or modify theories, concepts, and assumptions; significantly altering standard practices, equipment, devices, processes and known techniques; provide expert advice to senior colleagues and/or agency officials responsible for broad program operations. You may qualify at the GS-15 level, if you fulfill the following qualification requirement: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service (experience may have been gained in the private sector) performing duties in the following areas: providing engineering and scientific analyses and recommendations in area(s) of expertise and serves as the Agency's focal point assigned technology area(s); analyzing and responding to technical arguments raised by industry or other executive agencies in the international technology transfer process OR designing, researching, developing, testing, evaluating, manufacturing and transferring advanced systems and technologies related to Chemical/biological agents; reviewing and analyzing research, development, and production trends in area(s) of responsibility to assess the national security aspects of the particular. 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. Current or Former Political Appointees: Beginning January 1, 2010, agencies must seek prior approval from OPM before they can appoint a current or recent political appointee to a competitive or non-political excepted service position at any level under the provisions of title 5, United States Code. If you are currently or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Non-career SES employee in the executive branch, you MUST disclose that to the Human Resources Office. ARE YOU A CURRENT OR FORMER POLITICAL SCHEDULE A, SCHEDULE C, NON-CAREER SES OR PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTEE EMPLOYEE?
1. Submit a copy of your applicable SF-50, along with a statement that provides the following information regarding your most recent political appointment: . Position title;
. Type of appointment (Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES, or Presidential Appointee);
. Agency; and,
. Beginning and ending dates of appointment.??????? All qualifications and education requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement and clearly documented in your resume.
Pay Range
$117,191.00 - $166,500.00