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This position serves as the Technical Director at the DNFSB.
Learn more about this agency11/17/2023 to 01/04/2024
$141,022 - $212,100 per year
The salary range is subject to adjustment in January 2024.
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1 vacancy in the following location:
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Yes—This position is Telework eligible based on Agency policy and supervisor approval.
Occasional travel - Approximately once per quarter.
Yes—You may qualify for reimbursement of relocation expenses in accordance with agency policy.
Permanent - Permanent - Career
Full-time - Permanent
Senior Executive
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DNFSB-DHR-2024-0001
761174700
U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
Those who meet the five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs).
This job is open to the public.
Participates in executive direction of agency efforts, including policy determination, policy making, and resource management and provides expert technical assistance to the Executive Director of Operations and the Board members.
Plans, directs and manages the efforts of professional engineers responsible for reviewing and evaluating the technical adequacy of complex processes and systems of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) defense nuclear facilities.
Interacts closely with the Executive Director of Operations, Board Members, and senior DNFSB leaders to resolve and recommend agency resolution of policy and programmatic issues at the highest level.
Maintains systems to monitor, control and evaluate technical work.
Ensures subordinate supervisors identify and correct problems, improve operations, and meet organizational deadlines. Communicates agency organizational goals and objectives and develops staff through personal leadership, assignments, and training.
Interacts with DOE officials and contractors, scientific groups and committees, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, other Federal agencies, and state and local governments to assist the Board in assessing DOE activities and in developing Board analysis, advice, and recommendations to the Secretary of Energy.
Reviews DOE’s implementation plans for compliance with Board recommendations. Analyzes and assesses the adequacy of DOE’s systems engineering approach to the design, construction, operation, and decommissioning of defense nuclear facilities. Identifies and proposes DOE facilities, activities and programs for Board review that would be of major importance to the Board and the nation and have the potential for significantly affecting the National Security of the country.
Reviews work products of colleagues, consultants, contractors, and others. Serves as primary or secondary author of Board technical issue papers.
As a basic requirement for entry into the SES, applicants must provide evidence of progressively responsible executive leadership that is indicative of senior executive level management capability. Typically, experience of this nature will have been gained at or above the GS 15 grade level in the federal service or its equivalent in the private sector.
Failure to address all Mandatory Technical and Executive Core Qualification factors will result in determining your application to be "not qualified."
EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): Applicants must submit a written narrative to address the 5 ECQs. Your narrative must address each ECQ separately and should contain at least two examples per ECQ describing your experiences and accomplishments/results. The narrative should be clear, concise, and emphasize your level of responsibilities, scope and complexity of programs managed, program accomplishments, policy initiatives undertaken and the results of your actions. Applicants should not enter "Refer to Resume" as a written narrative.
The narrative must not exceed 10 pages. NOTE: Current career SES members, former career SES members with reinstatement eligibility, and SES Candidate Development Program graduates who have been certified by OPM do NOT need to address the ECQs.
1. Leading Change: This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.
2. Leading People: This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organizations vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.
3. Results Driven: This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.
4. Business Acumen: This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically.
5. Building Coalitions: This core qualification involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.
Additional information about the SES and Executive Core Qualifications can be found on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) SES Website. You are strongly encouraged to review OPM's Guide to SES Qualifications for specific examples and guidance on writing effective ECQ narrative statements. Applicants are encouraged to follow the Challenge, Context, Action and Result (C-C-A-R) model outlined in the guide.
Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs)
Applicants are required to submit a narrative statement for each MTQ. MTQs are designed to assess an applicant’s experience relevant to the specific position requirements. Each MTQ narrative statement must 1) not exceed two pages; 2) include specific examples of your experience, education, and/or accomplishments; and 3) address specific challenges, contexts, actions, and results.
MTQ1 – Demonstrated experience in the principles and practices of technical management, requirements for technical qualifications, and the administration of senior technical and professional personnel.
MTQ2 – Demonstrated experience in reviewing and evaluating engineering issues of significantly complex scope and effect related to the safety of processes and systems at nuclear facilities.
MTQ3 – Demonstrated experience in balancing and mediating competing technical demands, expectations, and perspectives among senior officials, technical staffs, and external entities.
Basic Requirements:
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; 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.
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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. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
1. 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.
2. 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.
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.)
If you do not meet the education requirement, your application will be assigned a "not qualified" status.
Telework may be approved at the discretion of the supervisor, per Agency policy.
Veteran’s preference does not apply to the Senior Executive Service (SES).
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Upon receipt of your completed application package, a review of your application will be made to ensure you meet the qualification requirements. Our determination will be based on your separate narrative statement responses to the Executive Core Qualifications and Mandatory Technical Qualifications using the CCAR Model in addition to the information stated in your resume and transcript(s). If you are among the best qualified applicants, then your application may be referred to the Selecting Official for consideration. Interviews are exclusively at the discretion of the Selecting Official.
A legible copy of your unofficial transcript(s) which contains the name of the accredited educational institution, academic major, course titles, number of credits, grades, cumulative GPA, courses currently in progress (if applicable), date of completion, and degree conferral (if degree is completed). If you fail to submit a transcript(s) with your application, you will be considered not qualified and will no longer be considered. Applicants are highly encouraged to proactively order a copy of their official transcripts to be delivered to their home address, so transcripts will be readily available if selected. Applicants can verify accreditation at the following website: https://www.ed.gov/accreditation. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
Candidates who do not submit complete application packages will be eliminated from consideration.
All materials submitted with your resume become the property of the U.S. Government and will not be returned.
DO NOT SUBMIT ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. Extraneous materials such as award certificates will not be considered.
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.
**You MUST apply online. Online applications allow you to review and track the status of your application. **
Your complete application package must be received by 11:59 p.m. EST on the closing date in order to be considered. Please read all instructions before you begin. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Applicants are responsible for verifying an application package is complete, accurate, and submitted by the closing date.
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All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
Applicants will be notified about the status of their application.
After all application packages have been received, we will review your application to ensure you meet the qualification requirements. You will be notified to inform you if you do not meet the qualification requirements. We will evaluate each applicant who meets qualifications on the information provided and may interview the best qualified applicants. After making a tentative job offer, we will conduct a suitability and/or security background investigation.
The Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) of the selectee are subject to prior approval by the Office of Personnel Management Qualifications Review Board (OPM QRB). Unless you have already been certified by an OPM QRB, your ECQs must be certified by an OPM QRB before your appointment can occur.
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DNFSB provides independent analysis, advice, and recommendations to the Secretary of Energy to inform the Secretary, in the role of the Secretary as operator and regulator of the defense nuclear facilities of the Department of Energy, in providing adequate protection of public health and safety at such defense nuclear facilities.
