Major Duties (Job Description)

• You will manage professional engineering and scientific work where the incumbent has knowledge and skills in two or more professional engineering series for which no single discipline is paramount or when a discipline is not covered.
• You will be responsible for acquisition development, fielding, and sustainment of the program, this includes incorporating standardization, commonality, configuration management, risk management, design for logistics support etc.
• You will be directing, managing, chairing, advising and reporting on engineering studies, projects, and experiments.
• You will serve as a recognized expert and consultant to ensure reliability and accuracy in the identification, development and implementation of recommended solutions to highly complex problems.
• You will provide authoritative technical, scientific, and/or professional advice to senior level leadership concerning unusual or critical problems that often affect the work of internal and external stakeholders.
• You will coordinate system of systems engineering, applying lessons learned to maximize programmatic alignment and efficiencies across the technical domain.

Qualification Summary

Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band NH-03 in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Leading systems engineering efforts across the acquisition lifecycle; conducting design, development, test & evaluation, integration, or in-service engineering for system engineering projects; resolving technical issues, system-level reviews, and/or ensure mission readiness and compliance. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf 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.

NAVWAR is the Navy's systems command that designs, develops and deploys advanced communications and information capabilities from Seabed to Space.