About this role
Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-12/13) grade level or pay band (DP-04) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: (1) Operating as a subject matter expert or project/program manager to be responsible for program development and the oversight of a major agency level program relating to research, development, testing, evaluation, and innovation; (2) Making substantial contributions in the form of presentations, patents, and articles that have a major impact in the specialty area along with serving on panels and committees charged with future planning of agency resources; (3) Determining the direction of the technical work subject to administrative review and reviewing the work of others to provide coordination and critical insights into the progress; (4) Directing the planning of resources to accomplish major blocks of engineering endeavors, which may involve the expenditure of major portions of the nation's industrial base and long range commitments of agency dollar allocations; and (5) Providing authority to make or recommend tradeoffs between cost, schedule, and performance as well as frequently directing the technical effort of other personnel. 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/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series AND 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.
Major Duties:
- You will perform professional, scientific, or technical work concerned with engineering or architectural projects, facilities, systems, processes, material and/or methods.
- You will operate as a subject matter expert or project/program manager to be responsible for program development and the oversight of a major agency level program relating to research, testing, and evaluation.
- You will conceive and develop major proposals for needs of the agency and may be fully responsible for planning, directing, and achieving the success of a broad program.
- You will direct the planning of resources to accomplish major blocks of engineering endeavors which may involve the expenditure of major portions of the nation's industrial base and long range commitments of agency dollar allocations.