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Lead Interdisciplinary Engineer

Department of Defense
Defense Contract Management Agency
DCMA East (P6)
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Summary

See below for important information regarding this job.

Additional vacancies may be filled from this announcement.

Positions will be filled at any of the locations listed below. Site specific salary information as follows:

  • Smyrna, Georgia: $111,442 - $144,876
  • Orlando, Florida: $105,383 - $137,000
  • Fort Eustis, Virginia: $106,950 - $139,036
  • Greensboro, North Carolina: $105,383 - $137,000
  • Saint Petersburg, Florida: $105,383 - $137,000

Overview

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Open & closing dates
06/17/2025 to 07/08/2025
Salary
$105,383 to - $144,876 per year

Salary information by location is listed below.

Pay scale & grade
GS 13
Locations
1 vacancy in the following locations:
Orlando, FL
Saint Petersburg, FL
Smyrna, GA
Greensboro, NC
Remote job
No
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
Supervisory status
No
Security clearance
Secret
Drug test
No
Announcement number
DCMA-P6-25-12748073-IMP
Control number
838967000

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Duties

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  • Ensures that the organization's strategic plan, mission, vision, and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the team's strategic goals, objectives, work plans, and work products and services.
  • Coach the team in the selection and application of appropriate problem solving methods and techniques, and provides advice on work methods, practices, and procedures. Analyzes the realism of engineering schedules in contractor proposals.
  • Lead the team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload and tasks among employees in accordance with established work flow, skill level, and/or occupational specialization.
  • Assesses the contractor's ability to achieve technical objectives as stated in proposals.
  • Performs all work in accordance with agency policies, standards, metrics and standard operating procedures for effective contract administration.
  • Conducts Contract Receipt and Review functions related to contract cost, schedule and performance for buying activities and DCMA elements.
  • Provides engineering Technical Pricing Support (TPS) and cost analysis reviews for major defense acquisition program contract proposals.
  • Analyzes the proposed costs of technical aspects of contractor proposals including amounts and types of labor hours, materials required, Other Direct Costs, facilities, production capabilities.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

  • Must be a U.S. citizen
  • Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive with Secret Access
  • Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
  • Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.

Qualifications


To qualify for a Lead Interdisciplinary Engineer position, your resume and supporting documentation must support:

A. Basic Requirement: A Bachelor's Degree or higher in professional engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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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A 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 professional 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), 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) 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 in engineering that included the courses specified in the Basic Requirements above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in the Basic Requirements above.
  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.
B. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in, or related to, this position. To qualify for the GS-13 level, specialized experience must be at the GS-12 grade level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector. Creditable specialized experience includes:
  • Experience in engineering concepts, principles, and practices applicable to general engineering assignments.
  • Experience in surveillance of engineering contractor performance and contractor engineering systems.
  • Providing technical support for the administration of contracts to a group or team.
  • Performing cost analysis of contract proposals.
  • Assessing the contractor's ability to meet the technical requirements of the proposal.
  • Working with contractor personnel to conduct negotiations and make Engineering decisions.




Education

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

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.

Additional information

  • This position does not meet criteria for appointment of Reemployed Annuitants. The DoD criteria for hiring Reemployed Annuitants can be found at: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/1400.25-V300.pdf
  • Tour of Duty: Flexible
  • FLSA: Exempt
  • Bargaining Unit: Yes
  • Selectee may be required to serve a trial/probationary period.
  • Financial Disclosure Required
  • Acquisition, Technology & Logistics (AT&L) NON-CAP: Position requires DoD Acquisition Engineering and Technical Management, Practitioner certification within required timeframes. Selectee must also achieve 80 hours of Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) every 2-years. Click here for more details and Resources.

How you will be evaluated

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

The assessments for this job will measure the following Competencies:

  • General Engineering
  • Leadership
  • Project Management


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

Once the application process is complete, a manual review of your resume and supporting documentation will occur to determine if you are eligible and among the best qualified as determined by the predetermined cutoff score. Your score is based on your responses to the assessment questionnaire.

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