Interdisciplinary.
About the role
Serve as authoritative technical consultant on materiel testing, maintain technical partnerships, represent the organization at technical forums, and brief domestic and foreign VIPs.
Manage test facilities and equipment ensuring operational readiness, oversee on and off range infrastructure, and identify required upgrades for future workload.
Prepare branch updates and reports including responses to data calls and Commander's Critical Information Reports (CCIRs).
Manage data reduction and reporting by ensuring required data collection, monitoring analysis, approving reports, conducting AARs, and submitting products to the Vision Data Library.
Plan and allocate branch resources by forecasting workload, determining personnel/equipment needs, developing annual budgets, and managing reimbursable and institutional funds.
Lead test planning for open-air weapons testing, determine resource compatibility, develop executable test plans, and approve required planning and safety documentation.
Oversee financial management for assigned test programs, including cost estimating, ADSS setup, 7600A development, funding verification, and periodic financial reviews.
Requirements
Conditions of employment: Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation. This position requires the incumbent be able to obtain and maintain a determination of eligibility for a Top Secret security clearance or access for the duration of employment. A background investigation and credit check are required.
This is an Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Workforce position. Selectee must meet position requirements for Test and Evaluation certification within 60 months as of entrance on duty.
The incumbent of this position must occasionally travel away from the normal duty station up to 10% of the time.
The incumbent of this position must successfully pass a urinalysis screening for illegal drug use prior to appointment and periodically thereafter.
The position is supervisory as defined by the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) General Schedule Supervisory Guide (GSSG).
The employee must obtain and maintain the requirements for Cyber work role (except Data, AI, and/or Software Engineering) at the assigned proficiency level within assigned time frame.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authorities categories below are eligible to apply for this job.
Basic Education Requirement: For Engineering - 0800 Series, Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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.
For Mathematician (1520) Series: A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in mathematics; or a degree with the equivalent of a major that included at least 24 semester hours in mathematics. My total course work includes differential and integral calculus and, in addition, four advanced mathematics courses requiring calculus or equivalent mathematics courses as a prerequisite.
For Operations Research Analyst (1515) Series: Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in operations research; or a degree with 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 hours must have been in calculus.