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ELECTRONICS ENGINEER

Department of Defense
Missile Defense Agency
Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance
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Summary

The position(s) covered by this vacancy announcement is in the Department of Defense (DoD) Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo). For more information please see: AcqDemo

Overview

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Hiring complete
Open & closing dates
01/25/2021 to 02/08/2021
Salary
$112,548 to - $172,102 per year

Position filled NH-04 Medium, starting salary of 112,548.00 TO $155,853.00 includes locality of 19.85%, unless statutory or regulatory rules prevail

Pay scale & grade
NH 4
Location
Redstone Arsenal, AL
1 vacancy
Telework eligible
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Travel Required
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Relocation expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-Time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
None
Job family (Series)
Supervisory status
No
Security clearance
Not Required
Drug test
Yes
Position sensitivity and risk
Noncritical-Sensitive (NCS)/Moderate Risk
Trust determination process
Announcement number
MDA-21-DH-11012760
Control number
590215500

Duties

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As a ELECTRONICS ENGINEER at the NH-0855-4 some of your typical work assignments may include:
- Serve as a subject matter expert regarding Parts, Materials, and Processes (PMP). Plans, directs, reviews, coordinates, controls, and implements broad strategies, criteria, policies, and procedures for planning, developing, supporting, acquiring, and executing quality, mission assurance, and parts, materials, and process programs across the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS).
- Serves as subject matter expert and senior engineer with technical authority regarding electronic parts, components, assemblies, materials, and processes. Responsible for the complex research, overall development, technology, and production. Oversees the extensive component and material application studies, circuit tolerance analysis, and environmental stress analysis. Provides technical direction regarding reliability testing and analysis, failure analysis, and corrective action. Anticipates and provides resolutions for major performance deficiencies in equipment and parts testing, requirements development, electronic assembly, process evaluation, and capability analysis, and problem investigations. Serves as expert advisor collaborating within DoD, MDA, government agencies, industry, and academia to establish MDA PMP programs for electronics that address performance, reliability, and quality. Establishes and maintains standards, specifications, and practices that have major impact on military electronics.
- Responsible for the analysis of electrical and electronic components and assemblies. Provides insight and feedback during the failure review boards and engineering reviews. Attends technical interchange meetings to monitor the testing and qualification activities. Develops test plans as needed for all electronic component commodities such as, solid state active devices, passive devices, electro-mechanical devices, or modules with various commodity combinations. These briefings will include a detailed technical description of the issue, the associated risks, and recommended solutions or options.
- Develops and proposes solutions to resolve supplier issues occurring during design, fabrication, assembly, test, handling, or shipping which affect system performance, quality, and reliability. Works closely with contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers to implement effective solutions and corrective actions.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

  • Must be a U.S. Citizen
  • Occasional Travel
  • Work Schedule: Full-time
  • Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
  • Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation
  • May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
  • Overtime: Occasionally
  • Tour of Duty: Flexible
  • Recruitment Incentives: Incentive Amount approved up to $10,000 for all ABQ hiring actions.
  • Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
  • Financial Disclosure: Required
  • Telework Eligibility: This position is telework eligible
  • Must be able to obtain/maintain a Non-Critical Secret Sensitive security clearance
  • This is a Drug Testing designated position

Qualifications

You may qualify at the NH-04 , if you fulfill the following qualifications:

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-03/GS/13 grade level in the Federal service as listed below:


- Experience in the application of military, industry, and commercial Parts, Materials, and Processes (PMP) standards.
- Experience with complex technical data, in conjunction with programmatic information, to develop and defend PMP related positions and decisions.
- Experience with sneak circuit analyses to perform electrical stress analyses.
- Experience with electronic reliability and part application analyses in order to identify failures, write screening and qualification test plans, and determine potential technical solutions of electronic components.

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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational for the 0801 series.

A. Degree: Engineering. 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.

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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)1, 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)2 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.

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 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.

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 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.)

You MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated unofficial transcripts are acceptable at time of application. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours that your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that 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://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html*

NOTE: Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position.

All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

Additional information

Other Notes:
Employee is required to accumulate 80 continuous learning points (CLP's) in a year period.

ACQUISITION POSITION: This position requires Acquisition Workforce Level III Production, Quality, and Manufacturing Certification prior to hiring is not essential but must be accomplished within 24 months after entry into this position.

This position DOES NOT meet criteria for re-employed annuitant. The DoD criteria for hiring Re-employed Annuitants can be found at:
http://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/1400.25-V300.pdf

All applicants must meet qualifications and eligibility criteria by the closing date of the announcement.

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Programs: This program applies to employees who have been involuntarily separated from a Federal service position within the competitive service or Federal service employees whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed. To receive selection priority for this position, you must: 1) meet ICTAP eligibility criteria; 2) be rated well-qualified for the position; Well qualified is defined as possessing the type and quality of experience that exceeds the positions minimum qualifications. and 3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your ICTAP eligibility. For more information:
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/

Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfRegistration.aspx

How you will be evaluated

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

We will review your resume and supporting documents, to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. We will evaluate each applicant who meets the basic qualifications on the information provided and evaluate your relevant work experiences as it relates to fundamental competencies, identified below, required for this position.

Competencies:
- Engineering Principles and Concepts
- Integration, Test and Verification
- Weapon Systems
- Oral and Written Communication

Traditional rating and ranking of applications does not apply to this vacancy. Your application (resume and supporting documentation) will be evaluated to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications required as listed on the announcement under qualification requirements.

Veterans Preference: If you are entitled to veterans preference, you should indicate the type of veterans' preference you are claiming on your resume. Your veterans' preference entitlement will be verified by the employing agency.

For information on entitlement see http://www.fedshirevets.gov/job/vetpref/index.aspx


Military Spouse Preference: If you are entitled to military spouse preference, in order to receive this preference you must choose the spousal eligibility in your application package referencing MSP Military Spouse Preference. Your preference entitlement will be verified by the employing agency. If you are claiming military spouse preference and qualified for the position, your name will be placed below preference eligible veteran candidates and above non-preference candidates on a list sent to the hiring manager for employment consideration. To claim Military Spouse Preference (MSP) please complete the Military Spouse PPP Self-Certification Checklist, save the document and attach it to your application package.



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