SLCM-N TESTING AND EVALUATION BRANCH ENGINEER

Strategic Systems Programs; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Systems Programs in Washington, DC seeks a senior engineering leader to direct branch staff, set technical direction, and guide work plans for missile systems deployed on nuclear-powered vessels. You will drive cross-disciplinary collaboration to ensure system integrity and mission readiness.

You will lead IPTs, conduct analyses, coordinate testing, and manage risk to ensure safe, effective integration with propulsion and shipboard control systems.

Qualifications

• Specialized experience providing guidance to multidisciplinary engineering or test & evaluation (T&E) efforts, including technical direction and issue resolution.
• Experience coordinating across requirements, systems engineering, test infrastructure, instrumentation, and data for complex programs.

Responsibilities

• Direct branch staff by setting technical direction, priorities, and work plans and mentor engineers.
• Lead IPTs, working groups, and technical reviews in support of branch objectives.
• Develop and evaluate system requirements, technical specifications, and integration strategies for missile systems deployed on nuclear-powered vessels.
• Perform system-level analysis, modeling and simulation, and performance validation of guided missile technologies.
• Coordinate and oversee component and full-system testing, including test planning, execution, and data analysis.
• Support platform integration efforts, ensuring compatibility with nuclear propulsion safety requirements and shipboard control systems.
• Lead risk management, technical assessments, and design reviews to drive innovation and ensure technical readiness.

Skills

Technical direction

Mentor engineers

Systems engineering

Modeling & simulation

Testing

Risk management

Cross-disciplinary coordination

Education

ABET-accredited engineering

PE license

Job description

• You will direct branch staff by setting technical direction, priorities, and work plans as well as mentors engineers.
• You will lead IPTs, working groups, and technical reviews in support of branch objectives.
• You will develop and evaluate system requirements, technical specifications, and integration strategies for missile systems deployed on nuclear-powered vessels.
• You will perform system-level analysis, modeling and simulation, and performance validation of guided missile technologies.
• You will coordinate and oversee component and full-system testing, including test planning, execution, and data analysis.
• You will support platform integration efforts, ensuring full compatibility with nuclear propulsion safety requirements and shipboard control systems.
• You will lead risk management, technical assessments, and design reviews to drive innovation and ensure technical readiness.

Duties

• You will direct branch staff by setting technical direction, priorities, and work plans as well as mentors engineers.
• You will lead IPTs, working groups, and technical reviews in support of branch objectives.
• You will develop and evaluate system requirements, technical specifications, and integration strategies for missile systems deployed on nuclear-powered vessels.
• You will perform system-level analysis, modeling and simulation, and performance validation of guided missile technologies.
• You will coordinate and oversee component and full-system testing, including test planning, execution, and data analysis.
• You will support platform integration efforts, ensuring full compatibility with nuclear propulsion safety requirements and shipboard control systems.
• You will lead risk management, technical assessments, and design reviews to drive innovation and ensure technical readiness.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Acquisition Functional Area and category assigned to the position is required within established category timeframes.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or fail the test. You will be subject to random testing.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.

Qualifications

Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NH-03 (GS-13 equivalent) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: as an engineer: 1) providing guidance to multidisciplinary engineering or T&E efforts, including providing technical direction, resolving complex technical issues, and/or integrating the work of multiple engineering disciplines, organizations, or stakeholders; 2) providing technical advisement for engineering approaches, identifying technical risk, making recommendations, and/or communicating technical judgements to leadership; 3) developing or executing complex system-level test, integration, verification, or evaluation activities requiring coordination across requirements, systems engineering, test infrastructure, instrumentation, data, or other technical functions.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:??????? All Professional Engineering Positions, 0800 General Mathematics and Statistics Series 1501

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: Applicants must possess:

For Engineering (08XX)

• 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; 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.

• 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:
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.) Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch