Supervisory General Engineer

Summary

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Additional vacancies may be filled from this announcement.

Duties

• Provides leadership to subordinates and technical guidance to executive/management level representatives from the Military Services DCMA and other Government Agencies.
• Manages surveillance and evaluation of the achievement of contract E/A requirements on contracts that include research design development test and production requirements.
• Advises personnel performing E/A operations in support of critical/complex ACAT I II and III system design development and integration contracts.
• Leads and serves on engineering teams responsible for E/A matters at facilities where contractors are designing and building new products and integrating components systems and subsystems for Major Defense Acquisition Programs.
• Leads engineers specialists and analysts in applying DCMA standard E/A processes.
• Reviews and recommends approval of comprehensive E/A surveillance reports which address contractor performance against all cost schedule and technical requirements.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive with Secret Access
• Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
• Selective Service Requirement: Males born aftermust be registered or exempt from Selective Service.

Qualifications

To qualify for a Supervisory General Engineer position your resume and supporting documentation must support A and B below :

A. Basic Requirement: A bachelors degree or higher in professional engineering. To be acceptable the program must:(1) Be in a school of engineering with at least one program 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 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:

• A. 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 Boards eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
• B. 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 and Puerto Rico.
• C. 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 above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in the Basic Requirements above.
• D. Related curriculum: successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelors 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 bachelors 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.

B. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify for the NH-03 level specialized experience must be at the NH-02 GS-11 or equivalent level under other pay systems in the Federal service military or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-after-competitive appointment minimum qualifications and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes:

• Directing and providing technical advice and guidance to engineering professionals; monitoring complex engineering processes.
• Providing oversight to engineering personnel performing engineering process reviews product examinations and production contract surveillance.
• Planning and managing team activities and providing leadership to functional field contract management teams.
• Formulating decisions that affect cost schedule and performance for the timely delivery of contractor systems to major Government buying commands.

Education

If the position has a minimum education requirement you MUST provide transcripts (unofficial are acceptable at the time of application) to support your educational claims. Or if you are using education to qualify in lieu of specialized experience you MUST provide transcripts (unofficial are acceptable at the time of application) to support your educational claims. The transcripts must include your name the name of the college or university class/course list completed number of credits/hours and the date degree conferred (if applicable). Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Licenses must be current at time of application.

GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours that your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate schools definition of one year of graduate study 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.

Additional information

This position does not meet criteria for appointment of Reemployed Annuitants. The DoD criteria for hiring Reemployed Annuitants can be found at: of Duty: Flexible

• FLSA: Exempt
• Bargaining Unit: No
• If selected for an interview you may be required to provide your last three performance appraisals to the panel.
• Selectee may be required to serve a trial/probationary period.
• Financial Disclosure Required
• Acquisition Technology & Logistics (AT&L) NON-CAP: Position requires DoD Acquisition Engineering and Technical Management Practitioner certification within required timeframes. Selectee must also achieve 80 hours of Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) every 2-years. Click here for more details and Resources.
• Supervisory Probation Required

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government passionate about the ideals of our American republic and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Required Experience:

Manager