Qualifications
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 as a professional GENERAL, ELECTRONICS, ELICTRICAL ENGINEER OR PHYSICIST experienced in electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) systems engineering, such as: 1) Development in deriving realistic and testable system and subsystem specifications based on higher level operational requirements defined by RO. Verifying contractor proposed specifications are suitable to meet higher level operational capability-based requirements; 2) Provide input to flight test and evaluation master plan to test event objectives to ensure that flight test plan is aligned to requirement verification matrix by defining analysis strategies to verify requirements and negotiates with stakeholders to arrive at consensus strategy; 3) Familiarity with integrating EO/IR systems (or other avionics/sensor systems) with platform interface; 4) Familiarity with production techniques for EO/IR system/subsystem components; 5) Ability to identify and work with stakeholders to mitigate production risks as well as identify opportunities to move production timelines to the left where possible; 6) Manage and lead a team of engineers and or scientists by clearly defining expectations for tasking (deadlines, success criteria, etc.); 7) Delegate tasking to team members while considering the team's skillset and determining areas for potential growth; 8) Mentor team members with less experience and imparting technical expertise to elevate team and promote growth; 9) Maintain strategic vision and possessing ability to communicate strategic vision with team at a level that is easy to understand and relate to current lower level tasking; 10) Experience in strategic thinking and identifying technology roadmaps and allocating resources to proactively meet the requirements of the team; 11) Coordinate with Integrated Product Team (IPT) Leadership to ensure alignment of priorities across EO/IR product portfolio; 12) Ensure that resources are aligned to higher priorities to be consistent with EO/IR IPT leadership strategic vision; 13) Work with industry partners to communicate technology and capability needs of the Navy and understand and assist with informing industry research and development efforts (technology roadmaps); 14) Oversee the lifecycle management of one or more systems (ideally EO/IR systems/subsystems); 15) Interfacing with OEM and program office stakeholders to provide engineering subject matter expertise and identify risks, issues, and opportunities while balancing performance, cost, and schedule requirements; 16) Serve as the de facto expert in the EO/IR technical domain for the PMA-265 program office to advise program managers on best practices and approaches to solve problems and leverage prior experience and lessons learned to identify risks and work with team to establish mitigation strategies.
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 PHYSICIST 1310 SERIES:
Successful completion of a bachelor's degree or higher in physics, or a related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics. Courses must have included a fundamental course in general physics and, in addition, course in any of two of the following: electricity and magnetism, heat, light, mechanics, modern physics, and sound.
FOR ENGINEER 800 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.
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