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Summary You will serve as the China Lake Ranges Department Head in the Ranges, Targets Operations, Instrumentation & Laboratories Group of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) China Lake, CA. Responsibilities You will be recognized as the technical expert and advisor for test and evaluation for advanced Naval and other DoD aircraft and weapon systems. You will serve as a consultant, furnishing advanced scientific and technical guidance to top-level administrative and technical management officials within and outside the organization. You will establish future direction for China Lake Range operations and provide support for test and evaluation future requirements, investment planning and other strategic initiatives. You will carry out technical supervisory responsibilities involving technical planning and oversight of work accomplished through assigned military and federal employees. You will ensure sound fiscal management to sustain technical projects by analyzing and monitoring resources and providing planning information, recommendations, and decisions for future projected spending. You will provide overall direction, coordination, and management of all facets and functions of a major technical program or several closely related programs. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications 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. Experience in defining and implementing future programmatic and/or test and evaluation requirements including investment planning and strategic initiatives. 2. Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams in the research and/or development and/or acquisition and/or test and evaluation of aircraft and weapon systems. Skilled in communicating ideas and risks clearly and concisely resulting in motivating people to action. Experience leading workforce development efforts and mentoring/coaching technical subject matter experts in test & evaluation operations. Facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. 3. Experience in leadership, management, and supervision for major range operations including technical expertise in test and evaluation for advanced Naval and DoD aircraft and weapon systems to meet mission and customer requirements. 4. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple large, complex Test and Evaluation projects simultaneously to achieve mission requirements including managing budget, schedule, workforce, and technology. Knowledge and understanding of budgeting and execution of financial operations for a significant capability and/or organization. 5. Demonstrated skill in building strategic partnerships and alliances with other Navy test and Evaluation (T&E) sites, other DoD Ranges, Tri-Service forums, and OPNAV sponsors, as well as academia or industry to build consensus and develop solutions on critical DOD or DON goals in the area of aircraft and weapon systems engineering and/or test and evaluation. 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 1310 Physics Series 1320 Chemistry Series 1520 Mathematics Series 1550 Computer Science 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. Education Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: For 0800 Professional Engineering Series: A. Degree: Engineering. Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher engineering degree from an accredited college or university. 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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. -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: (I) 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; or (II) 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, and Puerto Rico; or (III) 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; or (IV) 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 1310 Physics Series: A. Degree: physics; or related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics. -or- B. Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in physics totaling at least 24 semester hours, plus appropriate experience or additional education. In either A or B above, the courses must have included a fundamental course in general physics and, in addition, courses in any two of the following: electricity and magnetism, heat, light, mechanics, modern physics, and sound. For 1320 Chemistry Series: A. Degree: physical sciences, life sciences, or engineering that included 30 semester hours in chemistry, supplemented by course work in mathematics through differential and integral calculus, and at least 6 semester hours of physics. -or- B. Combination of education and experience -- course work equivalent to a major as shown in A above, including at least 30 semester hours in chemistry, supplemented by mathematics through differential and integral calculus, and at least 6 semester hours of physics, plus appropriate experience or additional education. For 1520 Mathematics Series A. Degree: mathematics; or the equivalent of a major that included at least 24 semester hours in mathematics. -or- B. Combination of education and experience demonstrated by courses equivalent to a major in mathematics, including at least 24 semester hours in mathematics, plus appropriate experience or additional education. 1550 Computer Science Series: A. Bachelor's degree in computer science -or- B. Bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus. All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions. An advanced degree of Master's or Ph.D. in one of the educational fields listed above is highly desirable. Additional Information Senior Scientific Technical Manager (SSTM) positions are positions which exceed the NM-05 (GS-15 equivalent). SSTMs provide a continuity of technical leadership and oversight that is needed to ensure long term stewardship of an organization's technical capabilities. Typically, applicants for SSTM positions are expected to have a graduate degree, significant research or development experience, and a national or international reputation in his/her field and are recognized throughout the applicable community as a renowned expert. SSTM positions are in the competitive service. This position is not covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program. Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments. Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees. A relocation incentive is generally a single payment intended to offset some of the relocation costs experienced by the selectee. A relocation incentive may be authorized.