Summary This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will NOT be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants should review the "How to Apply" section of this flyer for more information on how to be considered. This flyer will be used as positions become available. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. This is an Interdisciplinary position and may be filled with any of the listed occupations. Responsibilities 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 Qualifications This position is being filled under the Direct Hire Authority (DHA) Bachelors Degree for Scientific and Engineering Positions (STRLs) authorized by 85 FR 78829 dtd 12/07/2020. Serve as either Senior Branch Engineer or Chief Engineer in one of the following areas: Power Electronics; Power Data & Controls; Small and Alternative Power Generation; Mobile Electric Power; Power & Environmental Systems Readiness; Energy Materials & Systems Analysis; Soldier Power Systems; or Ground/Aviation Power Systems. Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Qualified candidates must meet the Basic Requirement for the Interdisciplinary position. In addition to meeting the Basic Requirement, applicants must have one year of specialized experience at the DB-03 (GS-13 grade level or higher equivalency). Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade or band is required. It is defined as one year of specialized experience equivalent to the DB-03 pay band (GS-13 level) in the Federal Service that includes: 1) Comprehensive understanding of power and energy technologies applicable to Soldier, Ground, and Aviation platforms across power ranges from watts through multiple kilowatt power levels, 2) Leveraging commercial specifications or government standards, to include USB and MIL-STD-3071, in the development and execution of technical work 3) Leading an integrated product team (IPT) to develop and deliver an integrated product for a customer, 4) Initiating, leading, and managing acquisition and/or research & development efforts with a highly technical team 5) Creating new customer relationships and sharing technical/programmatic outcomes, 6) Using engineering analysis to assess and decompose complicated technical challenges into executable research/engineering areas, and/or 7) Developing or collaborating with others on papers, patents, and/or publications. Basic Requirement for Engineer (0801, 0830, 0850, 0855 and 0893 Series): A. Degree: 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. OR 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, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. 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 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. Education FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications. Additional Information This announcement uses the Direct Hire Authority (DHA) for Defense STRL Positions to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service. Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration. You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. Three-year trial/probationary period may be required. Direct Deposit of Pay is required. This position requires you to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter. Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees. If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet. This is a(n) 16 - Engineering and Scientists (Non-construction) Career Field position. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest. This is a Science and Technology Laboratory Personnel Demonstration Project position and incorporates the GS-14 step 01 through GS-15 step 10. This position has an education requirement; therefore, Official college or university transcript (or copies) must be submitted to be considered eligible. This is an Interdisciplinary position and may be filled with any of the listed occupations. Position has a positive education requirement; therefore, Official transcripts MUST be submitted to be considered eligible. Position is Telework eligible, as determined by agency policy. This position is a Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratory Personnel Management Demonstration Project position. The DB-4 pay band encompasses the GS-14 step 1 to GS-15 step 10 grade levels.