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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 Physical Scientist / General Engineer at the GS-0801/1301-13 some of your typical work assignments may include:
- Plans, organizes, directs, and evaluates materials science and other technology R&D projects/programs. Provides expert assessment and advice to Agency leadership and program managers across the Agency on requirements for, or opportunities in, the broad range of materials science research.
- Provides oversight for weaponeering / analysis efforts to include; development of target recommendation packages, and optimization efforts to enhance tactics, techniques and procedures for weaponeering solutions.
- Initiates projects, and plans, organizes, and conducts analysis of narrowly defined and interrelated areas of intelligence issues pertaining to WMD targeting. Supports the development of WMD targeting and weaponeering recommendations based on intelligence products and Combatant Command guidance.
- Evaluates the overall effectiveness and adequacy of WMD and HDBT weaponeering efforts, recognizing and responding to targeting related issues, developments and trends that impact DTRA and warfighting Combatant Commands.
- Monitors state-of-the-art in structural engineering technology and current research, and applies this knowledge to develop approaches that enhance modeling and simulation efforts to perform target recommendations and weaponeering solutions. Creates new tactics, techniques and procedures, or establishes new criteria to support weaponeering efforts.
- Isolates and defines unknown conditions and resolves critical problems that affect the development of major aspects of science and technology development programs and missions for technologies that reduce the WMD threat.
- Forms program/project review teams and leads technical evaluation for research proposals, target recommendation packages and associated weaponeering solutions, consolidates input of supporting reviewers, and makes recommendations to the decision authority.
- Serves as the Government technical representative to research institutions under contract or grant. Seeks mechanisms and opportunities for transition of successful projects to applied technology or production programs to support targeting and weaponeering needs.
- Assesses deliverable items for compliance with contract or work order specifications. Assists the Contracting Officer (CO) by conducting fact-finding of selected offers and providing that information to the CO to develop a negotiating position and assessing Economy Act compliance for procurement of supplies and services from other Government agencies.
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: Overseeing research, development, test, and evaluation efforts associated with weaponeering of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and Hard and Deeply Buried Targets (HDBTs), modeling and simulation tools, and weapons effects testing. Applying advanced engineering/physical science theories, standards, and methods to evaluate the overall effectiveness and adequacy of WMD and HDBT weaponeering efforts, and responding to targeting related issues for defeating WMD and HDBTs Planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating physical science and other technology R&D projects/programs to address long-standing and difficult problems in the counter WMD and Hard and Deeply Buried Target (HDBT) mission space. Applying program management principles to form program/project review teams, lead technical evaluations, identify potential performance issues, and lead issue resolution and risk management discussions with technical and functional experts. 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 - $133,465.00