Interdisciplinary Engineer

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

Job summary

Defense Contract Management Agency seeks a professional engineer to assess contractor production capabilities and master planning schedules for risk identification. The role includes auditing design, development, and testing efforts to verify compliance with contract requirements.

Responsibilities also cover analyzing performance data across systems engineering, supply chain and manufacturing operations, and delivering engineering insights for pricing and cost proposals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering from an ABET-accredited program or equivalent.
• Education/experience combination demonstrating strong engineering knowledge and practical competence.

Responsibilities

• Evaluating contractor production engineering capabilities, facilities, tooling, and master planning schedules to identify cost and performance risks.
• Auditing contractor design, development, and testing efforts and ensuring compliance with requirements.
• Analyzing complex performance data trends across systems engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing operations.
• Providing Technical Support to Pricing, evaluating contractor cost proposals, and delivering engineering advice.

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

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);
   • (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:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

B. Specialized Experience

One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-12 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement.

Creditable specialized experience includes:

• Evaluating contractor production engineering capabilities, manufacturing facilities, tooling, and master planning schedules to identify cost, and performance risks prior to and during contract execution
• Demonstrating direct evaluation of contractor design, development, and testing efforts, as well as auditing systems for compliance
• Analyzing complex performance data trends across systems engineering, supply chain management, and manufacturing operations
• Conducting Technical Support to Pricing (TSP), evaluating contractor cost proposals, and delivering engineering advice regarding en