You will serve as a Senior Scientific Technical Manager (SSTM) in the position of Oceans Technical Department Head in the Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (EXWC) of the Naval Facilities and Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC). This position is part of the Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (NAVFAC EXWC) Personnel Demonstration Project. The ND-05 pay band encompasses positions above the GS-15 level.
This position has a Selective Placement Factor that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates. The Selective Placement Factor is: You must currently be a licensed Professional Engineer (PE). Your license must be held in a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States. NOTE: You must submit a copy of your current license with your application package. The applicant is to provide a separate narrative statement which describes fully, but concisely, how his/her experience supports each of the following Mandatory Technical Qualifications. Each technical qualification narrative should not exceed 2 pages. Failure to address these specific qualifications in a separate narrative statement will eliminate you from consideration: 1. Ability to lead large interdisciplinary teams of technical experts to determine and execute long-term strategies to impact mission, DON and DoD policies and goals involving Ocean Systems, Facilities, Equipment, and Seabed engineering and technologies. 2. Subject Matter Expert in Ocean/Seabed infrastructure domain with the ability to deliver high quality, innovative results to complex engineering issues leading to accelerated capability delivery and effective sustainment outcomes. 3. Knowledge of research and development (R&D), test and evaluation (T&E) and life cycle sustainment programs in areas associated with one or more of the following domains: Naval shore infrastructure, expeditionary, and ocean systems, subsystems, and equipment. 4. Knowledge of Department of Defense acquisition policy, process, and strategy. 5. Ability to negotiate complex solutions and manage conflict within specific functional areas with multiple major stakeholders to include but not limited to program offices, SYSCOMs, Fleet, technical, financial, and contracting. 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=GS-PROF AND 0801 Professional Engineering Series 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.
You will review and approve Oceans Technical Department manpower plans and budget requirements and oversee execution of projects assigned to the Ocean Mission Portfolio.
You will plan, organize, direct, integrate and manage a major EXWC mission capability area involving the execution of research, development, and engineering for the Navy and other Services.
You will provide leadership of Oceans Technical Department staff concerning major programmatic objectives, tie-in of research and end item development and production engineering.
You will organize and direct basic and applied research, development, testing and evaluation, technology integration, product development, in-service engineering, acquisition program management, and standardization for EXWC Oceans Mission Portfolio.
You will exercise management responsibilities on behalf of the Technical Director and carry out the full range of both immediate and intermediate supervisory tasks consistent with a SSTM position.