Job summary

You will serve as an Interdisciplinary Engineer/Physicist/Computer Scientist in the Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Battlespace Division, Advanced Technologies Development Department of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV.

Major duties

You will serve as the Chief Technologist for the Airborne ASW Systems Engineering Division providing technical advice to leaders on all matters relating to airborne ASW systems, strategic direction, and acquisition. You will advise the division and customers on acquisition strategies and trends to meet warfighting requirements as defined by OPNAV. You will analyze threat and geopolitical assessments in establishing near-term and future ASW strategic plans and ensure there is a continuing assessment of ASW strategies, goals, and objectives. You will assist division leaders to establish the vision for future airborne initiatives and also ensuring programs are executing cost, schedule and performance requirements, and complying with cyber and system operational certifications. You will recommend program staffing levels, training needs, and personnel qualifications as well as assess changes to organic facilities and equipment. You will be responsible for assessing gaps and developing solutions via new processes/technologies, or the modification of existing processes or capabilities in the airborne ASW mission area. You will develop and utilize engineering trade-offs along with tactical implication studies for conceptual design and development of improvements. You will demonstrate the knowledge and experience to provide expertise in the planning and execution for acoustic system developments. You will support airborne ASW programs, internal and external customers, and the fleet for experimental and tactical operations along with providing expertise in the validation of Navy training systems and tools. You will represent the agency, program sponsors, and the U.S. Navy at technical reviews and symposia concerning ASW systems. You will initiate contact and generate sponsor support that results in additional tasking and funding for the division.

Qualification

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-12/13) grade level or pay band (DP-04) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: (1) Providing technical advice to leaders on all matters relating to airborne systems, strategic direction, and acquisition to ensure strategies, goals and objectives are met; (2) Advising the division and customers on acquisition strategies and trends to meet warfighting requirements as well as analyzing threats and geopolitical assessments in establishing near-term and future strategic plans; (3) Assisting division leaders in ensuring programs are executing cost, schedule, and performance requirements to meet required delivery dates and are complying with cyber and system operational certifications; (4) Assessing gaps and developing solutions via new processes, new technologies, or the modification of existing processes and capabilities in the airborne mission area to include signal processing, mission planning/tactical decision aid models, systems/subsystems, and platforms; and (5) Serving as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on acoustic data analysis while maintaining knowledge of airborne system technologies and underwater acoustic systems/ subsystems. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: FOR THE 0801 JOB SERIES: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. OR 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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org OR 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 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. OR 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 under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above) OR 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 one 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. FOR THE 1310 JOB SERIES A) Degree: physics; or related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics. OR B) Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in physics totaling at least 24 semester hours, plus appropriate experience or additional education. In either A or B above, the courses must have included a fundamental course in general physics and, in addition, courses in any two of the following: electricity and magnetism, heat, light, mechanics, modern physics, and sound. FOR THE 1550 JOB SERIES: A) Bachelor's degree in computer science OR B) Bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus. All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions.

Evaluations

When the application process is complete, we will review your resume to ensure you meet the hiring eligibility and qualification requirements listed in this announcement. You will be rated based on the information provided in your resume and application package, along with your supporting documentation to determine your ability to demonstrate the following competencies: Research and Development Systems Engineering Systems Testing and Evaluation This recruitment will utilize the following technical assessment tools: Structured Resume Review; Structured Interview. You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in your resume as that information may be taken into consideration during the selection process. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documentation. If after reviewing your resume and supporting documentation, a determination is made that you inflated your qualifications and/or experience, your score may be adjusted to more accurately reflect your abilities or you may be found ineligible/not qualified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment. All eligibility, qualifications, and time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.