INTERDISCIPLINARY SUPERVISORY GENERAL ENGINEER/PHYSICAL SCIENTIST

You may qualify at the GS-15, if you fulfill the following qualifications: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the 14 grade level in the Federal service: Expert technical and operational expertise in CBRN Protection and Hazard mitigation science and technologies, including knowledge of scientific and engineering principles applicable to chemical and biological defense and specific expertise applicable to CBRN Protection and Hazard Mitigation, and extensive experience in directing the development of CBRN Protection and Hazard mitigation science and technology programs to meet DoD missions, goals and objectives. Experience directing and guiding multi-functional development teams, providing status and decisional briefs to senior leadership; experience with assessing, mentoring, and conflict resolution of team members. Experience leading and establishing interdepartmental and intergovernmental relationships and agreements necessary to accomplish programs. Extensive experience creating, building, guiding and assessing research and development programs/projects, including gap analysis, strategy development and implementation, and project initiation. Extensive experience providing direction and oversight to ensure the integrity and quality of the technical program planning and execution, compliance with policy and budget, consistency with mission priorities, and administrative productivity. Knowledge of DoD acquisition policies and procedures in order to evaluate program effectiveness, cost-efficiency, and achievement of stated goals and objectives to include the development of financial plans associated with complex multi-project research and development portfolios and managing financial resources to achieve obligation and expenditure goals and adjusting financial plans based on new/varying requirements. Extensive experience communicating both orally and in writing in order to convey technical issues in a programmatic arena to varying levels and background audiences. In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 0801/1301, series as listed below: For the General Engineering Series, 801: 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. 2. 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.). For the General Physical Science Series, 1301: Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. Or Combination of education and experience — education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education. NOTE: 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.
This position is part of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Chief Protection and Hazard Mitigation Branch in the RD and CB Department. Supervises activities to plan, coordinate, integrate, implement, and evaluate research programs in chemical and biological force protection, response and integrates research activities in acquisition programs. Represents DTRA with senior managers in OSD, Joint Chiefs of Staff, military services, foreign governments, Federal, state and local departments.