Duties

• For Senior Engineers: Serve as the senior technical advisor for a respective technical domain area in the review of technical documentation, development of project efforts, and customer engagements.
• Provide technical direction of branch-specific research and engineering activities to ensure work is resourced appropriately.
• Evaluate state-of-the-art commercial and military power and energy systems to inform the feasibility and suitability of new technologies or designs.
• Conduct exploratory research, as applicable, in the areas of electrochemical systems, power electronics, power generation, and power data and controls; documenting results in official research papers, patents, and publications.
• Use engineering analysis to assess complex technical challenges, decompose those challenges into executable research/engineering areas, and communicate direction to junior staff.
• Guide the technical resourcing needs of current and future efforts through close collaboration with personnel across the division.
• Guide junior staff in the development of research papers, patents, and publications, as applicable.
• Serve as a mentor to junior engineers conducting work within the branch.
• Serve as laboratory manager for all branch spaces.
• Manage laboratory standard operating procedures and equipment needs.
• Recommend technical training needs/opportunities to their respective branch chief to maximize readiness and personnel growth.
• For Chief Engineers: Leads the divisions strategic outreach, partnerships, and business development activities to build coalitions and address the Army's critical power and energy challenges.
• Leverages technical expertise from across the branches to shape the development of future Science and Technology efforts. Work directly with Branch Chiefs and Senior Engineers across the division to shape proposed work.
• Oversees the programmatic execution of high priority international and/or cross-organizational efforts across the division.
• Provide oversight, conduct assessments, and coordinate recommendations and findings on the implementation of policies, strategies, plans, and resourcing decisions within Army and across the Department of Defense.
• Represent division interests with key stakeholders, shaping the development of technical science and technology roadmaps and associated investment decisions at Power and Energy focused organizational bodies across the government.
• Lead knowledge management activities in respective area to include, integrated product teams, roadmaps, guiding development of reports, info-papers, repositories, marketing materials, lunch-and-learns and division collaboration sites.
• Support the mentoring of junior staff in effective methods of stakeholder management and program management activities.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement up to 25% of the time.
• Appointment to this position is subject to a three-year probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in 5 CFR Part 315.
• Incumbent is required to submit a Financial Disclosure Statement, OGE-450 upon entering the position and annually, in accordance with Do D Directive 5500-7-R, Joint Ethics Regulation, dated 17-Nov-2011.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.
• Persons born after 31 December 1959 and assigned the gender of male at birth must be registered for Selective Service.
• This is an Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Workforce position. Selectee must meet position requirements for Engineering Technical Management (ETM) within 60 months as of entrance on duty.

How You Will Be Evaluated

• Benefits
  
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• Required Documents
  
  As a new or existing federal employee, you and your family may have access to a range of benefits. Your benefits depend on the type of position you have - whether you're a permanent, part-time, temporary or an intermittent employee. You may be eligible for the following benefits, however, check with your agency to make sure you're eligible under their policies.
  Your complete application includes your resume and other documents which prove your qualifications and eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further.
  
  1. Your resume:
  

  • Your resume may be submitted in any format and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement.
  • If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
  • For qualifications determinations your resume must contain hours worked per week and the dates of employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete and you may not receive consideration for this position.
  • For additional information see: What to include in your resume.

  2. Other supporting documents:

  • Cover Letter, optional
  • This position has an individual occupational requirement and/or allows for substitution of education for experience. If you meet this requirement based on education you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your application package or you will be rated ineligible. See: Transcripts and Licenses

  NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.
  

  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
  
  Interested Applicants must submit resumes/application packages to: usarmy.apg.devcom-c5isr.mbx.advanced-technology-hr@army.mil
  
  Subject: EMP2 - C5ISR Power Division - Chief Engineers or EMP2 - C5ISR Power Division - Senior Engineers
  
  To apply for this position, you must submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section above. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.
  
  Alternate applications (e.g., facsimile applications) will not be accepted.
  
  The complete application package must be submitted to the email address provided above by 11:59 PM (EST) on 12/09/2024 to receive consideration.
  
  

  Agency contact information

  Army Applicant Help Desk

  Website

  https://portal.chra.army.mil/hr_public?id=app_inq

  Address

  FN-W4G8AA US ARMY COMBAT CAPABILITIES DEV CMD
  DO NOT MAIL
  Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005
  US

  Next steps

  Eligible applicants will be referred to the hiring manager. The selecting official may choose to conduct interviews.
  
  Acknowledgement and Notice of Results letters will be sent by the hiring office.
  
  The evaluation will be based on the information you provide. You should expect that we will verify performance, suitability, and security information and take that information into account in making employment offers.
  
• Fair and Transparent
  
  The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
  

  • Criminal history inquiries
  • Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
  • Financial suitability
  • New employee probationary period
  • Privacy Act
  • Reasonable accommodation policy
  • Selective Service
  • Signature and false statements
  • Social security number request

Required Documents