General Engineer

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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. This position is being filled using Direct Hire Authority (DHA) authorized under the Department of War Civilian Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo) for position in the Business and Technical Management Professional Career Path (NH). Please read this Public Notice in its entirety prior to submitting your application for consideration.

Incumbents typical work assignments may include the following:

• Conducts program and cross-program evaluation of PNT acquisition programs. Conducts analytical studies on major programs, systems, and acquisitions that come under review and oversight of the Defense Acquisition Board (DAB) or as requested by the Under Secretary of War (Acquisition & Sustainment). Provides support to the DoW Chief Information Officer. Manages and coordinates scheduling reviews, ensuring system maturity prior to scheduling each review, contracting, and ensuring stakeholders have appropriate advance documentation and ensuring leadership is prepared to review and discuss the subject systems.
• Provides authoritative engineering leadership across operational, technical, and programmatic portfolios to synchronize highly complex joint and coalition warfighting capabilities.
• Applies mastery of professional engineering principles, theories, and concepts to lead the design, development, and engineering integration of PNT systems. Enforces engineering discipline across programs to ensure that technical baselines, functional configurations, and architectures are robust, resilient, and fully aligned with Department modernization priorities and digital engineering strategies.
• Directs PNT Capability Portfolio Management and resource integration activities from a highly technical standpoint, ensuring the mapping of operational requirements to robust physical and logical architectures within current and emerging PNT acquisition programs. Represents the organization in high-level Department of War and inter-agency technical forums, delivering executive briefings that directly influence Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) cycles and Department-wide engineering/acquisition decisions.
• Develops acquisition guidance and coordinates with Government and non-Governmental bodies. Determines the appropriate scope of OSW involvement in a particular area, reviews DoW and other Federal agency programs which define, bound, interface, or parallel the program area, and frames the OSW and DoW acquisition approach. Interprets and reviews established policies to assist DoW Components and determines when revisions are appropriate. Proposes and coordinates efforts to integrate OSW and DoW component systems and processes. Develops and staffs proposed regulations and procedural changes and guides DoW implementation actions. Represents the DoW on boards, committees, and other groups concerned with PNT systems acquisitions and integration/interoperability.