Interdisciplinary Engineer

Defense Contract Management Agency; Camden (AR); On-site; USD 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Defense Contract Management Agency in Camden, AR seeks an Interdisciplinary Engineer to apply engineering principles across defense acquisition lifecycles. The role emphasizes ensuring technical rigor and contract integrity.

The position requires specialized experience in evaluating contractor compliance, conducting engineering surveillance, and contributing as a principal team member on contractual processes. This is a rigorous, mission-focused engineering role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in professional engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Specialized experience includes applying engineering principles to defense acquisition, evaluating contractor compliance, and leading team projects.

Responsibilities

• Apply engineering principles to support defense acquisition systems.
• Conduct engineering surveillance of technical processes throughout acquisition lifecycles.
• Use engineering principles to evaluate contractor compliance against contractual requirements.
• Act as a principal contributor on team-based projects related to contractual processes.

Skills

Applying engineering principles

Engineering surveillance

Contractor evaluation

Team-based project work

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Job description

See below for important information regarding this job. Additional vacancies may be filled from this announcement.

To qualify for an Interdisciplinary Engineer, your resume and supporting documentation must support:

1. A. Basic Requirement: A Bachelor's Degree or higher in professional engineering. To be acceptable, the program must:(1) be in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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 A 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 professional 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:
   • A. 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.
   • B. 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.
   • C. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the Basic Requirements above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in the Basic Requirements above.
   • D. 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.
2. B. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-13 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes:
   • Applying engineering principles, concepts, and standards in support of defense acquisition systems.
   • Conducting engineering surveillance of technical processes throughout acquisition lifecycles.
   • Using engineering principles to evaluate contractor compliance against contractual requirements.
   • Acting as a principal contributor on team-based projects related to contractual processes.