Missile Defense Agency · 10 hours ago
Supervisory General Engineer
Redstone Arsenal, AL
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$131K/yr - $197K/yr
1+ years expThe US Missile Defense Agency is part of the Department of Defense, focused on missile defense operations. The Supervisory General Engineer will manage the Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance Program, ensuring safe and effective systems through oversight and technical assessments.
National SecurityPolitics
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Serves as the Director and Functional Manager of the Quality, Safety and Mission Assurance (QSMA) Program within the Missile Defense Agency
Manages all aspects of the QSMA Program including Quality, Mission Assurance, Parts, Materials, and Processes (PMP), In-Plant Manufacturing Oversight, Systems Safety, Safety and Occupational Health, Operations Safety, Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS), and as required, Reliability and Configuration Management
Represents MDA as the senior QSMA official in QSMA related conferences, forums, interagency meetings and events
Establishes and implements QSMA requirements and performs independent technical assessments and verifications on the design, test and manufacture of mission and safety critical systems to ensure safe, reliable and effective systems
Ensures safe workplaces for all MDA personnel. Ensures residual safety risks are mitigated to the maximum extent practical and that they are accepted at the appropriate MDA management level
Provides sufficient matrixed QSMA support and oversight to all major MDA program elements
Ensures program and test technical mission risks are mitigated to the maximum extent practical via the MDA Risk Management process
Ensures QSMA lessons learned are shared across MDA and Industry partners
Ensures proper configuration of MDS elements during tests and operations. Develops QS budget requirements and priorities, manpower mix and contracting requirements
Serves as source selection official for QS contracts, as required
Monitors contractor performance and provides contractor feedback to ensure requirements are met
Manages the overall QS program through subordinate supervisors. Plans and assigns work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts priorities, evaluates work performance, gives advice or instruction, interviews candidates for positions, hears and resolves complaints, identifies developmental and training needs, finds ways to improve production/quality of work directed, and develops performance standards
Works within MDA, with other government agencies, and industry to identify and tailor best practices for QSMA to apply to MDA programs based on Agency priorities for schedule, cost, performance and acceptable risk
Qualification
Required
Must be a U.S. Citizen
Occasional Travel
Work Schedule: Full-time
Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation
May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
Overtime: Occasionally
Tour of Duty: Maxi Flex
Recruitment Incentives: Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees based on agency policy and availability
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
Financial Disclosure: Required
Telework Eligibility: This position is situational telework eligible
Supervisory Probationary Period: May be required to successfully complete a supervisory probationary period
This is a drug tested designate position
Employee must be able to obtain/maintain a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Investigation (TS/SCI) clearance
This is an acquisition position coded Practitioner in Engineering and Technical Management. Incumbent must obtain mandatory Back-to-Basics (BtB) certification within 60 months of entry into position
Incumbent must acquire 80 Continuous Learning Points every 24 months
This is a Critical Acquisition Position. Incumbent will be required to sign a written tenure agreement to remain, for a minimum of three years, in the Federal Service in the Critical Acquisition Position
One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-03/GS-13 grade level in the Federal service as listed below and must meet 2 of the 3 specialized experience listed below to be qualified: Experience with multiple of the following disciplines of QSMA: Quality, Mission Assurance, Parts, Materials, and Processes (PMP), Natural and Manmade Radiation Hardening and Testing of PMP, In-Plant/On Site Manufacturing Oversight, Systems Safety, Safety and Occupational Health and Operations Safety, Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM), Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS), Reliability and Configuration Management
Adapting and applying QSMA methods and techniques throughout the requirements, engineering, design, test, manufacturing, and operations processes to ensure safe, reliable and effective systems consistent with desired risk, cost and schedule considerations
Leading, managing and supervising a large QSMA related organization
Basic Requirements: 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), 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) 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
Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement
Benefits
Recruitment Incentives: Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees based on agency policy and availability.
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent.
Company
Missile Defense Agency
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is a research, development, and acquisition agency within the United States Department of Defense.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
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