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Summary
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Overview
- Job closed
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Open & closing dates
04/13/2023 to 04/26/2023
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Salary
$116,393 - $177,978 per year
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Pay scale & grade
NH 4
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Location
Few vacancies in the following location:
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Remote job
No
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Telework eligible
No
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Travel Required
Occasional travel - May be required to travel by military or commercial aircraft in the performance of TDY assignments.
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Relocation expenses reimbursed
No
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Appointment type
Permanent
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Work schedule
Full-time
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Service
Competitive
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Promotion potential
None
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Job family (Series)
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Supervisory status
Yes
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Security clearance
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Drug test
Yes
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Announcement number
AFMC-11927888-JRL-FLYER
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Control number
719287900
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Duties
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DUTIES:
- Serves as Branch Chief managing full spectrum of future digital technology activities associated with Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) while supervising government personnel assigned to Digital Futures Branch.
- Leads a diverse team of government, Federally Funded Research Center (FFRDC), University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), and government contractor personnel in developing, integrating, and implementing technical solutions to diverse, highly complex Sentinel Weapon System challenges, with a focus on future digital technology needs.
- Leads Digital Futures efforts, to include driving digital technology (DE, MBSE, etc.) strategic planning and digital technology advancement through early design, development, and testing of future capabilities (with considerations for future integration of the weapon system or enterprise capabilities).
- Promotes teamwork, mentors branch workforce, and works with the teams to solve broad organizational issues primarily through addressing future digital technological needs.
- Engages with a diverse and geographically dispersed community of stakeholders including subject matter experts from across the Sentinel Systems Directorate, support contractors, and DoD Digital SMEs/Leaders to ensure Sentinel advanced digital capabilities are successfully studied, matured, coordinated, and executed.
- Leads overall agile planning for the Branch, utilizing tools like Jira and Confluence to plan out quarterly Key Results and other "issues" to refine effort required to accomplish Objectives and Key Results.
- Position typically requires at least 8 years of engineering experience that preferably includes Inter- continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) weapon system life cycle management.
- Strong background in professional scientific or engineering principles, ICBM development, digital engineering, and model-based engineering is desired.
- Depth of experience in leading and integrating engineering activities from multiple teams within an enterprise is preferred.
- Extensive leadership and communication skills, as training and mentoring junior engineers will be a key component of the position.
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Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- U.S. Citizenship Required
- Telework may be authorized.
- PCS costs may be authorized.
- Employee must obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance and is required to handle and safeguard sensitive and/or classified information in accordance with regulations to reduce potential compromise.
- Locations are not negotiable. The actual duty locations available may be located on the Air Force Civilian Service website.
- Testing Designated Position Statement: This is a drug testing designated position. The incumbent is subject to pre-employment drug testing as as condition of employment, and participation in random drug testing.
- Supervisory requirements may be required depending upon the position being filled.
- Employee must meet Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) requirements, which includes achieving Engineering and Technical Management "Practitioner" certification category within required timeframe after appointment.
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- This position is currently designated as a Critical Acquisition Position; the employee is required to sign a three-year service agreement.
- in accordance with the Ethics in Government Act, 1978, employee may be required to file an Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Form 450, Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, upon appointment and will be required to file annually.
- A professional engineering degree at the bachelor's level from an ABET accredited institution is highly desired. An advanced engineering degree such as a Masters of PhD is preferred.
- Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): Approximately 10 days per year.
- Your resume is key to evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities; be clear and specific when describing experience. If using Microsoft Word, please use 2018 or a more recent version, as MS Word 97-2003 documents are no longer viewable.
Qualifications
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To qualify as an engineer, employee must meet the education and specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards, Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Professional and Scientific Positions: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf
BASIC QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: (All Grade Levels) Candidates for these positions must possess: A degree: professional engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum 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.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:
1. Knowledge of a wide range of advanced multidisciplinary professional engineering concepts, principles, practices, standards, methods, and techniques to apply experimental theories and new developments to problems not susceptible to treatment by accepted methods, and to plan and execute specialized programs of marked difficulty, responsibility, and significance.
2. Knowledge of the mission, roles, functions, organizational structure, and operation of the DoD, Air Force, and organizations that govern, interface with, and/or influence systems acquisition, development, and/or sustainment; and knowledge of planning, programming, and budgeting cycles, financial systems, and restrictions on expenditure of funds.
3. Knowledge of and skill in evaluating state-of-the-art and advancements in theory, application, technology, and policy affecting systems being developed, and in planning, organizing, and directing the functions and staff in critical aspects of development, production, and/or support of systems, subsystems, or equipment.
4. Knowledge of safety, security, personnel management, and EEO regulations, practices, and procedures.
5. Skill in establishing and maintaining effective relationships, building consensus and coalitions, negotiating, and resolving conflicts with a variety of individuals and organizations as well as communicating effectively, both orally and in writing.
6. Ability to plan, organize, and direct the functions of an organization, and mentor, motivate, and appraise the staff through subordinate supervisors as well as analyze, plan, and adjust work operations of one or more organizational segments to meet program requirements and objectives within available resources.
This position may be designated as an acquisition position covered by the Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP). The incumbent may be required to acquire and maintain the appropriate certification(s); e.g., Level 3 in an area such as Test & Evaluation (T&E); Systems Planning, Research, Development, and Engineering-Systems Engineering (SPRDE-SE); or Systems Planning, Research, Development, and Engineering-Program Systems Engineer (SPRDE-PSE).
This is a Critical Acquisition Position (CAP). Unless specifically waived by the appropriate component official, i.e., the Director of Acquisition Career Management for
the component, the Service Acquisition Executive, or the Service Secretary, the following are statutorily mandated requirements.
(1) Selectee must execute a written agreement to remain in Federal service in this position for at least three years. In signing such agreement, the employee does
not forfeit any employment rights, nor does such agreement alter any other terms or conditions of employment.
(2) The selectee must meet, or be capable of achieving the APDP certification as designated on the position description within the defined grace period for that
certification level after assignment.
(3) This position also requires employee to engage in acquisition continuous learning activities achieving 80 Continuous Learning Points every 24 months.
Education
IF USING EDUCATION TO QUALIFY: If position has a positive degree requirement or education forms the basis for qualifications, you MUST submit transcriptswith the application. Official transcripts are not required at the time of application; however, if position has a positive degree requirement, qualifying based on education alone or in combination with experience, transcripts must be verified prior to appointment. An accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education must accredit education. Click here to check accreditation.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
Additional information
To ensure compliance with an applicable preliminary nationwide injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation, the Federal Government will take no action to implement or enforce the COVID-19 vaccination requirement pursuant to Executive Order 14043 on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees. Therefore, to the extent a Federal job announcement includes the requirement that applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 pursuant to Executive Order 14043, that requirement does not currently apply. Federal agencies may request information regarding the vaccination status of selected applicants for the purposes of implementing other workplace safety protocols, such as protocols related to masking, physical distancing, testing, travel, and restriction from the workplace.
Benefits
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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
How You Will Be Evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
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Benefits
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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
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If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
How to Apply
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When applying at the link below, please use Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome. Click the apply button to complete an application and upload resume (PDF or Word format) and any additional documents (e.g., certifications, DD214, SF-50, etc.).
Apply at: https://afcs.experience.crmforce.mil/s/registration?jobId=a0583000000FvvvAAC by Midnight Mountain Time APRIL 26, 2023. Recruitment/Relocation expenses may be covered.
To find all current job and internship opportunities at the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, visit the AFNWC webpage at: https://www.afnwc.af.mil/About-Us/Jobs/.
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U.S. citizenship required. AFCS is Equal Opportunity Employer. Must be of legal working age.
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Deborah Roach
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EHA DHA
550 C Street West
JBSA Randolph AFB, TX 78150
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For additional information on direct hire opportunities with the Air Force please click here.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
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How to Apply
For additional information on direct hire opportunities with the Air Force please click here.
When applying at the link below, please use Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome. Click the apply button to complete an application and upload resume (PDF or Word format) and any additional documents (e.g., certifications, DD214, SF-50, etc.).
Apply at: https://afcs.experience.crmforce.mil/s/registration?jobId=a0583000000FvvvAAC by Midnight Mountain Time APRIL 26, 2023. Recruitment/Relocation expenses may be covered.
To find all current job and internship opportunities at the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, visit the AFNWC webpage at: https://www.afnwc.af.mil/About-Us/Jobs/.
To receive additional information about current and future job openings with AFCS via email notification, please subscribe at www.Afciviliancareers.com and sign up to "Get Career Updates."
U.S. citizenship required. AFCS is Equal Opportunity Employer. Must be of legal working age.
Agency contact information
Deborah Roach
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EHA DHA
550 C Street West
JBSA Randolph AFB, TX 78150
US
Next steps
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This Job Opportunity Announcement (JOA) will be used to form a pool of qualified applicants who will be considered for direct hire vacancies as they become available.
Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC) is currently seeking a full-time Supervisory General Engineer (Branch Chief) to work in the Sentinel Systems Directorate, Futures Division at Hill Air Force Base near Layton, Utah.
*This position is not eligible for remote or full time telework; situational-based agreements may be available at the discretion of the hiring manager.
Sentinel is a major defense acquisition program charged to deliver a full system replacement for the nation's Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) System, providing a strategic deterrent to nuclear attack against the United States. This position is integral to the success of the Sentinel weapon system and the continued support of one leg of the nation's nuclear triad. The Sentinel weapon system, when fielded, will continue the critical national strategic deterrence role currently performed by the legacy Minuteman III (MMIII) ICBM System.
The primary purpose of this position is to serve as the Branch Chief for the Digital Futures Branch in the Sentinel Futures Division, to include Supervisory and Leadership responsibilities for Sentinels Weapon System future digital transformation efforts.
Agency contact information
Deborah Roach
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EHA DHA
550 C Street West
JBSA Randolph AFB, TX 78150
US