Summary You will serve as the Chief Engineer for Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)/Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC). Responsibilities You will serve as the NSWC/NUWC technical expert in engineering and project management policy, technical processes, and technical performance metrics owner. You will ensure that project management and technical activities related to the NSWC/NUWC missions are conducted with sound engineering practices, proper controls, and technical rigor. You will provide technical counsel to the NSWC/NUWC Commander and Executive Director regarding the execution of projects across the WC enterprise. You will collaborate with the Command Chief Engineers at each WC Division to address common WC challenges, guide the sharing of best practices and lessons learned, and identify areas where common practices benefit the WC enterprise. You will lead technical investigations and inquiries on behalf of the NSWC/NUWC Commander and Executive Director. You will lead integration and coordination activities with the Program Executive Offices (PEOs) and NAVSEA Directorates in areas of mutual interest. You will lead the digital transformation of engineering activities and operational data initiatives and partner with the Navy community to further digital engineering capabilities. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications The applicant is to provide a separate narrative statement which describes fully, but concisely, how his/her experience supports each of the following Mandatory Technical Qualifications. Each technical qualification narrative should not exceed 2 pages. Failure to address these specific qualifications in a separate narrative statement will eliminate you from consideration: 1) Strong engineering experience ensuring that project management and technical activities executed within an enterprise are conducted with sound engineering practices, proper controls and technical rigor. Worked at the senior levels influencing project management policy, engineering processes and execution metrics. Demonstrated experience in program or engineering offices, executing responsibilities for cost, schedule, and performance that resulted in program successes. 2) Demonstrated understanding of the technical capabilities across the NSWC/NUWC Warfare Center Divisions and their capability intersection points in order to establish and maintain an effective and efficient environment of proactive coordination and collaboration across technical domains. Led cross-organizational initiatives that will facilitate interfacing effectively working across the Warfare Center Divisions and/or relevant NAVSEA Codes. 3) Demonstrated ability to effectively prepare and deliver technical communications, including those that may be sensitive, convey ideas and facts, and articulate the command's position to individuals, internal and external to the enterprise, in oral and written form, preferably at the Flag/SES level. 4) Demonstrated ability to assess enterprise and system of systems integration and interoperability issues, develop courses of action, and make recommendations for enterprise solutions. Knowledge of Navy Get Real, Get Better problem-solving principles including Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC), Problem Solving Canvas, Driver Trees, and Root Cause Analysis. 5) Demonstrated experience leading Digital Engineering transformation within a large organization or across an enterprise. Digital Transformation entails Model-Based Systems Engineering (SysML-based Descriptive Models); Model-Based Engineering (Product & Performance-Based Models); Digital Product Support and Logistics; Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) capabilities; Software Factory (Includes DevSecOps) and Data Analytics. What challenges, successes have you experienced? 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=GS-PROF AND ttps://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 positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: For 0801 Professional Engineering Series: A. Degree: Engineering. Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher engineering degree from an accredited college or university. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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- 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: (I) 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; or (II) 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; or (III) 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 the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A; or (IV) 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 bachelor's 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.) An advanced degree of Master's or Ph.D. in one of the educational fields listed above is highly desirable. Additional Information Senior Scientific Technical Manager (SSTM) positions are positions which exceed the ND-05 (GS-15 equivalent). SSTMs provide a continuity of technical leadership and oversight that is needed to ensure long term stewardship of an organization's technical capabilities. Typically, applicants for SSTM positions are expected to have a graduate degree, significant research or development experience, and a national or international reputation in his/her field and are recognized throughout the applicable community as a renowned expert. SSTM positions are in the competitive service. This position is not covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program. Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments. Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees. A relocation incentive is generally a single payment intended to offset some of the relocation costs experienced by the selectee. A relocation incentive may be authorized. Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf
