• Evaluates current and proposed technical modifications to aircraft weapon systems and planning and executing integration and incorporation of these requirements throughout all affected maintenance and operational publications.
• Researches and evaluates all engineering modifications and technical publication deficiency reports for technical impact on maintenance and operational manuals.
• Determines the scope of modification impact establishes and chairs fleet technical reviews and conferences to identify problems and develop improvement recommendations for associated maintenance instructions.
• Interacts with program engineers, technicians, logisticians, and fleet maintenance personnel to develop the acquisition requirements for technical data packages on all program modifications.
• Authors and edits Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals formatted in S1000D and MIL-STD-3001.
• Acts as the Program Data Management (PDM) technical data expert for weapon system maintenance procedures and coordinates technical data requirements.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a US Citizen.
• Males must be registered or exempt from Selective Service. www.sss.gov
• Selectee must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Selectee may be required to successfully complete a probationary period.
• Selectee is required to participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• See Other Information section for additional requirements.

Must be able to obtain an interim and/or final (e.g., confidential/secret/top secret, etc.) security clearance prior to entrance on duty AND must be able to maintain the required level of clearance while employed in the subject position.  Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal. 

Qualifications

In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities, as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS (Your resume must demonstrate at least one of the following):

GS-11:

A. Have at least one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience in or related to the work of this position at a level of difficulty and responsibility comparable to the GS-09 grade level or equivalent experience in the public or private sector that has equipped you with the knowledge, skills, abilities, and/or competencies to successfully perform the work of the position.  Qualifying experience includes the following: 1) Performing analysis and verification on technical documentation, providing technical data management processes to include using publishing applications, illustrating and editing maintenance and operational publications; 2) Generating technical data; and 3) Providing inputs on specifications.

OR

B. Have successfully completed a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.

OR

C. Have a combination of specialized experience as described in A and education as described in B that equates to one year of experience. Your percentage of the required education plus your percentage of the required experience equal 100 percent.

GS-12:

Your resume must demonstrate at least one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience in or related to the work of this position at a level of difficulty and responsibility comparable to the GS-11 grade level or equivalent experience in the public or private sector that has equipped me with the knowledge, skills, abilities, and/or competencies to successfully perform the work of the position.  Qualifying experience includes the following: 1) Preparing budgets, cost proposals and Statement of Work for aircraft weapon system technical data modification projects including all phases of the budgeting cycle from preliminary proposal to formal change incorporation; and 2) Directing personnel in the performance and application of diverse data analysis techniques associated with technical data development and sustainment in support of complex weapon systems equipment, hardware and software modification projects.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0300/miscellaneous-administration-and-program-series-0301/.

DAWIA: This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) and requires additional education, training and experience. This position has been identified as a Career Field Lifecycle Management at Level I.  If you possess DAWIA Certification, please indicate your Certification Level and Career Field information in your resume. 
Applicants not certified may still apply and be selected, but must achieve certification within 24 months of appointment.  Certification requirements may be viewed at http://icatalog.dau.mil/onlinecatalog/CareerLvl.aspx. 

SELECTIVE PLACEMENT FACTOR: This position has a selective placement factor that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates. The selective placement factor is: Experience evaluating data sources and accordingly authoring and editing Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs) in S1000D and/or MIL-STD-3001 format using Arbortext publishing software.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week.

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.

As part of the application process, you must complete and submit an occupational questionnaire. To preview this questionnaire and determine if your experience matches the required skills for this position, click the following link: View Assessment Questions

Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating and/or appointment eligibility.

How you will be evaluated

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

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 responses to the Occupational Questionnaire, along with your supporting documentation.

You will be evaluated and rated under Expedited Hiring Authority selection procedures. Additional points are not added for veterans’ preference; however, preference is still applied. Applicants eligible for veteran's preference will receive selection priority over non-veterans.

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.