What are the responsibilities and job description for the Interdisciplinary Engineer position at Army Futures Command?
Summary
This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will NOT be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants should review the "How to Apply" section of this flyer for more information on how to be considered. This flyer will be used as positions become available. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. This is an Interdisciplinary position and may be filled with any of the listed occupations.
Duties
Serves as a Maintenance and Sustainment Engineer in the Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors Division (IEWS) Division, providing support to Product Manager (PM) Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP).Conducts Maintenance Concept Engineering activities such as Failure, Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Level of Repair Analysis (LORA), development and review of Maintenance Allocation Charts (MAC) and Technical Manuals.Conducts Maintenance Concept Engineering activities such as Provisioning assistance, Core Logistics Analysis (CLA), Core Depot Analysis (CDA), Depot Source of Repair (DSOR) determination, and logistics demonstrations.Supports technical areas of the 12 Integrated Product Support (IPS) Elements in support of the PM TENCAP Product Support Manager (PSM).Provides sustainment engineering expertise, critical to lifecycle management of systems through Integrated Product Teams, Working Groups, and Program Management Reviews.Provides sustainment engineering expertise related to topics including but not limited to: Engineer Change Proposals (ECP), Configuration Management, Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Materials Shortages (DMSMS).Provides sustainment engineering expertise related to topics including but not limited to technical input and market research for contracting efforts, and Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability initiatives.Supports Production and Manufacturing tasks such as review of Technical Data Packages (TDP)/ engineer drawings.Supports Configuration Management actions, Engineering Change Proposals (ECP), development of specifications, performing Physical Configuration Audits (PCA), Manufacturing Readiness Assessments (MRA).Supports First Article Tests (FAT), Industrial Base tasks such as obsolescence mitigation and DMSMS planning.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and 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.
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade or band is required. It is defined as one year of specialized experience equivalent to the DB-02 pay band (GS-11 grade level) in the Federal Service which includes experience in one or more of the following areas: Providing lifecycle systems engineering support to the acquisition process in at least one of the following areas: requirements decomposition, technical planning, specification preparation, technical analyses, risk management, decision support, and acquisition milestones. Supporting the development, maintenance, sustainment, or testing of electronic warfare products and technologies. Analyzing system engineering/scientific data for use in program/project improvement and/or troubleshooting. Utilizing understanding of the acquisition life cycle process to help manage risk, control costs, and ensure successful delivery of capabilities. Basic Requirement for Engineering:
A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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), 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, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
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 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. Transcripts are required to meet the Basic Education for the applicable series.
Education
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show 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. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications.
Additional Information
This announcement uses the Scientific and Engineering Positions (STRLs) direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service. Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration. You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. Three-year trial/probationary period may be required. Direct Deposit of Pay is required. Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees. If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet. This is an Engineers & Scientists (Non-Construction) Career Field position. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest. This is a Science and Technology Laboratory Personnel Demonstration Project position and incorporates the GS-12 step 01 through GS-14 step 10. This position has a positive education requirement and requires proof of education for eligibility. If the selectee is not already in the 0800 series, transcripts MUST be submitted prior to the action becoming effective. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website: 0800 series: all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf (opm.gov) https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf
Civilian employees serve a vital role in supporting the Army mission. They provide the skills that are not readily available in the military, but crucial to support military operations. The Army integrates the talents and skills of its military and civilian members to form a Total Army. The Army values diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, cultures and skills, which connects employees to organizations that are committed to building an inclusive work environment where they can contribute to their fullest potential. About the Positions: The Readiness Engineering Portfolio organizes and optimizes our life-cycle engineering/sustainment functions by combining field system sustainment with current operations in quick reaction, urgent operational needs and direct field support mission areas into the same portfolio of responsibility.
This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will NOT be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants should review the "How to Apply" section of this flyer for more information on how to be considered. This flyer will be used as positions become available. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. This is an Interdisciplinary position and may be filled with any of the listed occupations.
Duties
Serves as a Maintenance and Sustainment Engineer in the Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors Division (IEWS) Division, providing support to Product Manager (PM) Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP).Conducts Maintenance Concept Engineering activities such as Failure, Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Level of Repair Analysis (LORA), development and review of Maintenance Allocation Charts (MAC) and Technical Manuals.Conducts Maintenance Concept Engineering activities such as Provisioning assistance, Core Logistics Analysis (CLA), Core Depot Analysis (CDA), Depot Source of Repair (DSOR) determination, and logistics demonstrations.Supports technical areas of the 12 Integrated Product Support (IPS) Elements in support of the PM TENCAP Product Support Manager (PSM).Provides sustainment engineering expertise, critical to lifecycle management of systems through Integrated Product Teams, Working Groups, and Program Management Reviews.Provides sustainment engineering expertise related to topics including but not limited to: Engineer Change Proposals (ECP), Configuration Management, Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Materials Shortages (DMSMS).Provides sustainment engineering expertise related to topics including but not limited to technical input and market research for contracting efforts, and Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability initiatives.Supports Production and Manufacturing tasks such as review of Technical Data Packages (TDP)/ engineer drawings.Supports Configuration Management actions, Engineering Change Proposals (ECP), development of specifications, performing Physical Configuration Audits (PCA), Manufacturing Readiness Assessments (MRA).Supports First Article Tests (FAT), Industrial Base tasks such as obsolescence mitigation and DMSMS planning.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and 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.
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade or band is required. It is defined as one year of specialized experience equivalent to the DB-02 pay band (GS-11 grade level) in the Federal Service which includes experience in one or more of the following areas: Providing lifecycle systems engineering support to the acquisition process in at least one of the following areas: requirements decomposition, technical planning, specification preparation, technical analyses, risk management, decision support, and acquisition milestones. Supporting the development, maintenance, sustainment, or testing of electronic warfare products and technologies. Analyzing system engineering/scientific data for use in program/project improvement and/or troubleshooting. Utilizing understanding of the acquisition life cycle process to help manage risk, control costs, and ensure successful delivery of capabilities. Basic Requirement for Engineering:
A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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), 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, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
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 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. Transcripts are required to meet the Basic Education for the applicable series.
Education
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show 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. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications.
Additional Information
This announcement uses the Scientific and Engineering Positions (STRLs) direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service. Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration. You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. Three-year trial/probationary period may be required. Direct Deposit of Pay is required. Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees. If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet. This is an Engineers & Scientists (Non-Construction) Career Field position. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest. This is a Science and Technology Laboratory Personnel Demonstration Project position and incorporates the GS-12 step 01 through GS-14 step 10. This position has a positive education requirement and requires proof of education for eligibility. If the selectee is not already in the 0800 series, transcripts MUST be submitted prior to the action becoming effective. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website: 0800 series: all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf (opm.gov) https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf
Civilian employees serve a vital role in supporting the Army mission. They provide the skills that are not readily available in the military, but crucial to support military operations. The Army integrates the talents and skills of its military and civilian members to form a Total Army. The Army values diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, cultures and skills, which connects employees to organizations that are committed to building an inclusive work environment where they can contribute to their fullest potential. About the Positions: The Readiness Engineering Portfolio organizes and optimizes our life-cycle engineering/sustainment functions by combining field system sustainment with current operations in quick reaction, urgent operational needs and direct field support mission areas into the same portfolio of responsibility.
