Interdisciplinary General Engineer/Operations Research Analyst

Missile Defense Agency; United States; On-site; USD 68,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Missile Defense Agency in the United States seeks a candidate to assist the Asset Manager in supporting Missile Defense System flight tests. The role requires analyzing test data, contributing to test execution, and aiding integration across agencies to ensure system interoperability.

Applicants should meet the 0801/1515 occupational requirements and possess an engineering degree with ABET accreditation. The position is within the AcqDemo framework and emphasizes rigorous testing and

Qualifications

• One year of specialized experience equivalent to NH-02/GS-11 in the Federal service; must meet 2 of 3 specialized experience items.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Asset Manager to support Missile Defense System flight tests.
• Coordinate with multiple agencies/divisions to ensure seamless integration of weapon systems.
• Support development of test concepts, policies and standards for weapon system verification and accreditation.

Education

ABET-accredited engineering program

Job description

The position(s) covered by this vacancy announcement is in the Department of Defense (DoD) Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo). For more information please see: ACQDEMO This position is part of the Department of Defense. The incumbent will be responsible for Assist the Asset Manager to support Missile Defense System (MDS) flight tests.

You may qualify at the NH-03 if you fulfill the following qualifications:

• A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH - NH-02/GS-11 grade level in the Federal service below and must meet 2 of the 3 specialized experience listed below to be qualified:
  • Assisting with the planning and/or execution of complex weapon system testing, including generating or modifying test plans, contributing to a test execution team, and/or analyzing test data.
  • Aiding with the integration of weapon systems by working with multiple agencies or directorates/divisions to ensure that various systems connect seamlessly.
  • Supporting the development of test concepts, policies and/or standards to support weapon system verification, validation, and/or accreditation.

In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 0801/1515 series.

0801 series:

• A. Degree: Engineering. 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;
  • (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 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.
  • 1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, 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)2 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.
  • 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 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.
  • 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 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 the 1515 series:

Degree: in operations research; or at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject‑matter courses requiring substantial competence in college‑level mathematics or statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hour