Job Summary

Please limit your resume to 5 pages. If more than 5 pages are submitted, only the first 5 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications. This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: Serves as a Lead Technical Writer-Editor (Electronics) in the Integrated Logistics Support Center (ILSC).

Job Description

• Leads the team in identifying, distributing and balancing workload/tasks among employees; making adjustments to accomplish the work in accordance with established priorities; and ensuring that each employee has a role in developing the final product.
• Trains or arranges for the training of team members.
• Serves as a Staff Project Action Officer concerned with the development, preparation and processing of the US Army Communications-Electronics Equipment and Systems Publications Program.
• Performs and/or coordinates the planning, development, management, budgeting, acquisition and implementation of programs for technical manuals and equipment publications related to a total major commodity.
• Develops and maintains technical and procedural guidance to ensure assigned program publication documents are commensurate with the equipment/systems development and modification programs.
• Monitors the development, modification and integration of various electronic equipment and devices to meet changing operational requirements.
• Conducts resource impact assessments complying with those directives governing publication support for the user activities.
• Provides management direction to contracting office and/or government activities regarding all publications in support of assigned equipment/systems.
• Monitors contractor and/or government activity progress through visits to plants, government activities and sites, and through review of progress reports.
• Evaluates contractor proposals and changes, comparing requirements against specifications, cost factors, publication criteria and program essentiality.
• Participates in conferences with Government and/or industrial personnel to develop compromises affecting cost level of services and standards of technical sufficiency.
• Provides the appropriate Project Managers, government activities and contracting officials with current technical documentation changes and amendments.
• Prepares and submits appropriate reports indicating whether progress of the technical documentation of assigned equipment/systems is commensurate with the costs claimed in progress payments.
• Attends and chairs meetings, conferences and should-cost working groups within major command; and subcommands.
• Analyzes and evaluates raw engineering source data covering maintenance, repair, and test procedures and develops a more practical procedure when appropriate for inclusion in equipment publications.
• Performs Logistic Support Analysis related to program planning and control around advanced communication-electronic systems and configurations which impact a publication program.
• Develops approaches and solutions to achieve the best balance between cost, rescheduling, performance and supportability related to development of equipment publications.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the 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. Experience required: To qualify based on your work experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience: is defined as: 1) Interpreting regulatory guidance to develop equipment publications, for all levels, that articulate highly technical/complex information for communications systems; 2) Analyzing raw engineering source data to develop practical procedures for inclusion in equipment publications; 3) Developing publications utilizing extensible Markup Language (XML); AND 4) Evaluating contract documentation in order to monitor performance.

The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) is the Army’s materiel integrator for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) readiness. As a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC), CECOM collaborates with Army Commands, Program Executive Offices, other AMC commands, and industry partners to provide, integrate, and sustain world-class C5ISR hardware, software, and mission command capabilities for the joint warfighter. CECOM maintains a global team of approximately 9,000 Soldiers, civilians, and contractors and is headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), MD.