General Engineer (Integrated Air and Missile Defense Portfolio Manager)

Office of the Secretary of Defense; Virginia; On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Office of the Secretary of Defense seeks an experienced acquisition professional in the United States, Virginia, to advise senior leadership on procurement policy and program execution. The role focuses on integrating and protecting technology to enable warfighter capability, and on managing the defense procurement process end-to-end.

The position requires a strong engineering background and demonstrated ability to develop comprehensive acquisition plans, coordinate across milestone

Qualifications

• Professional engineering background with ability to develop acquisition plans and strategies.
• Experience coordinating cost, schedule, and technical risk analyses across program life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Develop Integrated Acquisition Management Plans (IAMP) detailing business, contracting and logistics strategies.
• Manage relationships across milestone decision points, contracting awards, and source selections.
• Conduct data-driven analysis of cost, schedule and technical risks and implement mitigation plans.
• Align requirements, budget constraints, and acquisition execution for fielding.

Skills

IAMP planning

Stakeholder mgmt

Source selection

Test & Evaluation

Risk analysis

Budget alignment

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

The Assistant Secretary of War for Acquisition (ASW(A)) is responsible for advising the Secretary of War, Deputy Secretary of War, and the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment on matters relating to acquisition and the integration and protection of technology that enable capability for the warfighter. The ASW(A) is responsible for Department policies and procedures governing the Department's procurement and acquisition process.

The General Engineering Series, 0801, has Individual Occupational Requirements that must be met in addition to the specialized experience. Basic Requirement: 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. (NOTE: You must submit your transcripts) 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. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements: You may qualify at the (GS-14/15 level, if you fulfill the following qualification requirement: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-III (GS-13) grade level in the Federal service (experience may have been gained in the private sector) that demonstrates your ability to: (1) Developing comprehensive Integrated Acquisition Management Plans (IAMP) detailing business, contracting, technical, and logistics/support strategies. (2) Managing relationships across milestone decision points, competitive contract awards, source selections, and operational/developmental test and evaluation (T&E) events. (3) Conducting rigorous, data-driven analysis of cost, schedule, and technical risks across the program life cycle, establishing mitigation plans to ensure baseline performance, and (4) Aligning requirements, budget constraints, and acquisition execution to ensure fielding sc