Clarification from the agency

See "Who May Apply" in the "Qualifications" section for more information on who is eligible to apply for this position.

• Serve as a Division Chief (Engineering) providing direct technical, programmatic, and managerial support.
• Serve as alternate to a manager of high rank or level, sharing the direction of all phases of the organization's program and work or program responsibilities with the manager.
• Demonstrate professional proficiency in engineering disciplines such as systems engineering, software development, project/technical management, architecture, development processes, configuration management, and/or integration test infrastructure.
• Provide leadership, oversight, mentoring and management of various product and/or service teams engaged in research, development and/or engineering.
• Participate in strategic planning for area of responsibility and implement assigned strategic objectives with a focus on improving operations to include decreased turn-around time, streamlining work processes, and enhancing customer service.
• Recommend the establishment or abolishment of teams to the Associate Director (AD) to meet overall objectives.
• Assign, oversee, and review the work of assigned teams, resolving technical and/or operating problems.
• Oversee budgets managed and executed by teams.
• Assure integration, collaboration, and coordination within the business area and across internal and external organizations.
• Represent the organization and the command at high level conferences and meetings, participating in interagency technical planning and standards committees and seminars of national and international importance.
• Serve as a direct, first-line supervisor to two or more Supervisory Branch Chiefs within the Division and second-line supervisor to several associates within the organization.
• Interview, select, manage, develop, train, mentor, and resolve performance or disciplinary issues of subordinate employees using sound management principles.
• Maintain a safe work environment, addressing allegations of noncompliance and incorporating Composite Risk Management in processes and operation of the work unit.
• Execute Management Controls for the work unit and review standard operating procedures and certifications.

Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• A three-year probationary/trial period may be required.
• This is a Defense Acquisition Workforce (AWF) position. Selectee must meet position requirements for Practitioner Level 2 certification in the Acquisition Career field Engineering and Technology Management within 60 months as of entrance on duty.
• Must obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.
• This position may require up to 20% of temporary duty (TDY) travel.
• This position requires submission of Financial Disclosure Statement, OGE-450, upon entering the position and annually thereafter in accordance with DoD Directive 5500-7-R.
• This position requires the selectee to remain in Federal service for at least 3 years and sign a DD 2888 Tenure Agreement.
• This is a Critical Acquisition Position. Unless specifically waived, selectee must be able to meet the qualifications of CAP Position at the time of permanent selection for the position or have been granted a waiver.
• One-year Supervisory probationary period may be required.
• Selectee must have a least 4 years Acquisition Experience or obtain the required waiver.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

• Current Department of Army Civilian Employees
• Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce
• Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan
• Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act
• Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible
• Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible
• Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and 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.

Basic Requirement for Engineering:
A. Degree: 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;

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)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. 1 For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http:// www.nspe.org. 2 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. 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.) All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the specialized experience requirement listed below.

Specialized Experience: To qualify for the DB-04 position, applicants must possess at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade of DB-03 pay band or grade equivalent in the Federal service performing the following duties: (1) Managing and executing programs within the DoD Acquisition Life Cycle in conjunction with DoD instruction 5000.02 and its application to major Acquisition Programs; (2) Effectively communicating critical information to senior leadership through briefings and writing examples; (3) Establishing and maintaining relationships with key individuals/groups outside immediate work unit, including across multiple competency areas and target audiences as a technical spokesperson for the organization (4) Leading projects and teams towards defined productivity metrics in a technical environment; and (5) Conducting a variety of studies utilizing evaluative methods, techniques, analyses, and reports.

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

• General Engineering
• Leadership
• Program Management
• Technical Competence

Time-in-grade documentation: If you are applying for a higher grade and your SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you meet the one year time-in-grade requirement so you will need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstrates you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of appropriate SF-50s include Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective date more than one year old).

How you will be evaluated

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

Once the announcement has closed, a review of your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared against your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If, after reviewing your resume 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.

You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in your resume as that information may be taken into consideration during the selection process. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documentation.

You may claim Military Spouse preference.

You may claim Priority Placement Program (PPP) preference.

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP). If you are a Federal employee in the competitive service and your agency has notified you in writing that you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority for this position. To receive selection priority, you must: (1) meet ICTAP eligibility criteria (2) be rated well-qualified for the position and; (3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your ICTAP eligibility. To be considered well-qualified and receive selection priority applicants must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a score of 90 or above. Additional information about the program is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website.