INTERDISCIPLINARY Job

Vacancy No. DAFN245408467614HLF Department United States Army Futures Command
Salary $139,395.00 to $191,900.00 Grade 4 to 4
Perm/Temp Permanent FT/PT Full-time
Open Date 11/29/2024 Close Date 12/9/2024
Job Link Apply Online Who may apply Public
Locations:
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MDFort Belvoir, VA


Summary

This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will NOT be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants should review the "How to Apply" section of this flyer for more information on how to be considered. This flyer will be used as positions become available. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer.

This is an Interdisciplinary position and may be filled with any of the listed occupations.

Duties

  • For Senior Engineers: Serve as the senior technical advisor for a respective technical domain area in the review of technical documentation, development of project efforts, and customer engagements.
  • Provide technical direction of branch-specific research and engineering activities to ensure work is resourced appropriately.
  • Evaluate state-of-the-art commercial and military power and energy systems to inform the feasibility and suitability of new technologies or designs.
  • Conduct exploratory research, as applicable, in the areas of electrochemical systems, power electronics, power generation, and power data and controls; documenting results in official research papers, patents, and publications.
  • Use engineering analysis to assess complex technical challenges, decompose those challenges into executable research/engineering areas, and communicate direction to junior staff.
  • Guide the technical resourcing needs of current and future efforts through close collaboration with personnel across the division.
  • Guide junior staff in the development of research papers, patents, and publications, as applicable.
  • Serve as a mentor to junior engineers conducting work within the branch.
  • Serve as laboratory manager for all branch spaces.
  • Manage laboratory standard operating procedures and equipment needs.
  • Recommend technical training needs/opportunities to their respective branch chief to maximize readiness and personnel growth.
  • For Chief Engineers: Leads the divisions strategic outreach, partnerships, and business development activities to build coalitions and address the Army's critical power and energy challenges.
  • Leverages technical expertise from across the branches to shape the development of future Science and Technology efforts. Work directly with Branch Chiefs and Senior Engineers across the division to shape proposed work.
  • Oversees the programmatic execution of high priority international and/or cross-organizational efforts across the division.
  • Provide oversight, conduct assessments, and coordinate recommendations and findings on the implementation of policies, strategies, plans, and resourcing decisions within Army and across the Department of Defense.
  • Represent division interests with key stakeholders, shaping the development of technical science and technology roadmaps and associated investment decisions at Power and Energy focused organizational bodies across the government.
  • Lead knowledge management activities in respective area to include, integrated product teams, roadmaps, guiding development of reports, info-papers, repositories, marketing materials, lunch-and-learns and division collaboration sites.
  • Support the mentoring of junior staff in effective methods of stakeholder management and program management activities.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

  • Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
  • This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement up to 25% of the time.
  • Appointment to this position is subject to a three-year probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in 5 CFR Part 315.
  • Incumbent is required to submit a Financial Disclosure Statement, OGE-450 upon entering the position and annually, in accordance with DoD Directive 5500-7-R, Joint Ethics Regulation, dated 17-Nov-2011.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.
  • Persons born after 31 December 1959 and assigned the gender of male at birth must be registered for Selective Service.
  • This is an Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Workforce position. Selectee must meet position requirements for Engineering Technical Management (ETM) within 60 months as of entrance on duty.

Qualifications

This position is being filled under the Direct Hire Authority (DHA) Bachelors Degree for Scientific and Engineering Positions (STRLs) authorized by 85 FR 78829 dtd 12/07/2020.

Serve as either Senior Branch Engineer or Chief Engineer in one of the following areas: Power Electronics; Power Data & Controls; Small and Alternative Power Generation; Mobile Electric Power; Power & Environmental Systems Readiness; Energy Materials & Systems Analysis; Soldier Power Systems; or Ground/Aviation Power Systems.

Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and or experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Qualified candidates must meet the Basic Requirement for the Interdisciplinary position.

In addition to meeting the Basic Requirement, applicants must have one year of specialized experience at the DB-03 (GS-13 grade level or higher equivalency). Specialized Experience:

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade or band is required. It is defined as one year of specialized experience equivalent to the DB-03 pay band (GS-13 level) in the Federal Service that includes: 1) Comprehensive understanding of power and energy technologies applicable to Soldier, Ground, and Aviation platforms across power ranges from watts through multiple kilowatt power levels, 2) Leveraging commercial specifications or government standards, to include USB and MIL-STD-3071, in the development and execution of technical work 3) Leading an integrated product team (IPT) to develop and deliver an integrated product for a customer, 4) Initiating, leading, and managing acquisition and/or research & development efforts with a highly technical team 5) Creating new customer relationships and sharing technical/programmatic outcomes, 6) Using engineering analysis to assess and decompose complicated technical challenges into executable research/engineering areas, and/or 7) Developing or collaborating with others on papers, patents, and/or publications.

Basic Requirement for Engineer (0801, 0830, 0850, 0855 and 0893 Series):
A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must:

(1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) 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.

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), 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) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
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 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.

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show 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. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications.

Additional information

  • This announcement uses the Direct Hire Authority (DHA) for Defense STRL Positions to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.
  • Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
  • You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
  • Three-year trial/probationary period may be required.
  • Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
  • This position requires you to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
  • Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
  • If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
  • This is a(n) 16 - Engineering and Scientists (Non-construction) Career Field position.
  • Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
  • Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
  • Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest.
  • This is a Science and Technology Laboratory Personnel Demonstration Project position and incorporates the GS-14 step 01 through GS-15 step 10.
  • This position has an education requirement; therefore, Official college or university transcript (or copies) must be submitted to be considered eligible.
  • This is an Interdisciplinary position and may be filled with any of the listed occupations.
  • Position has a positive education requirement; therefore, Official transcripts MUST be submitted to be considered eligible.
  • Position is Telework eligible, as determined by agency policy.
  • This position is a Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratory Personnel Management Demonstration Project position. The DB-4 pay band encompasses the GS-14 step 1 to GS-15 step 10 grade levels.

Benefits

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How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

As vacancies occur, the Human Resources Office will review your resume to ensure you meet the hiring eligibility and qualification requirements listed in this flyer. You will be rated based on the information provided in your resume, along with your supporting documentation.

If, after reviewing your rsum and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

Veterans and Military Spouses will be considered along with all other candidates.

If selected, you may be required to provide additional supporting documentation.

Required Documents

Your complete application includes your resume and other documents which prove your qualifications and eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further.

1. Your resume:

  • Your resume may be submitted in any format and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement.
  • If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
  • For qualifications determinations your resume must contain hours worked per week and the dates of employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete and you may not receive consideration for this position.
  • For additional information see: What to include in your resume.
2. Other supporting documents:
  • Cover Letter, optional
  • This position has an individual occupational requirement and/or allows for substitution of education for experience. If you meet this requirement based on education you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your application package or you will be rated ineligible. See: Transcripts and Licenses
NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

How to Apply

Interested Applicants must submit resumes/application packages to: usarmy.apg.devcom-c5isr.mbx.advanced-technology-hr@army.mil

Subject: EMP2 - C5ISR Power Division - Chief Engineers or EMP2 - C5ISR Power Division - Senior Engineers

To apply for this position, you must submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section above. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

Alternate applications (e.g., facsimile applications) will not be accepted.

The complete application package must be submitted to the email address provided above by 11:59 PM (EST) on 12/09/2024 to receive consideration.

Agency contact information

Army Applicant Help Desk
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Next steps

Eligible applicants will be referred to the hiring manager. The selecting official may choose to conduct interviews.

Acknowledgement and Notice of Results letters will be sent by the hiring office.

The evaluation will be based on the information you provide. You should expect that we will verify performance, suitability, and security information and take that information into account in making employment offers.


Note: We cannot accept applications on behalf of Federal Agencies. Application instructions are listed within the Job Description.


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