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INTERDISCIPLINARY (ENGINEER/PHYSICAL SCIENTIST/OCEANOGRAPHER/COMPUTER SCIENTIST)
United States Fleet Forces Command · Posted 36 days ago
Hybrid Stennis Space Center, MS $148K – $192K Apply by Aug 14, 2026 General Engineering INTJINTP Engineering
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You will serve as an INTERDISCIPLINARY (ENGINEER/PHYSICAL SCIENTIST / OCEANOGRAPHER / COMPUTER SCIENTIST) serving as the Deputy Technical Director in the OFFICE OF THE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, NAVAL METEROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY COMMAND of COMNAVMETOCCOM.
What You'll Do
- →You will serve as the primary special advisor to the Technical Director on all complex scientific, engineering, and technical matters spanning the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography (METOC) mission space.
- →You will exercise broad interdisciplinary technical oversight over the command’s scientific and engineering programs.
- →You will evaluate the technical soundness, feasibility, and scientific rigor of ongoing projects to ensure they meet mission requirements and adhere to rigorous DoD standards.
- →You will represent the command as a senior technical authority in high-level meetings, working groups, and conferences with other defense agencies, academia, and industry partners.
- →You will provide the Technical Director with authoritative, data-driven recommendations for research and development (R and D) investments.
- →You will shape the command’s strategic posture by identifying and forecasting long-term technological trends across multiple engineering and scientific disciplines.
- →You will analyze long-term trends in METOC, artificial intelligence, and physical sciences to shape the strategic posture of the command.
- →Guides the evolution of the technical workforce to ensure readiness for next generation warfare requirements.
- →You will perform a full range of first level supervisory responsibilities in, but not limited to Position Management, Personnel Management, and Professional Development for a subordinate staff.
- →You will evaluate the performance of subordinates and review evaluations made by subordinate supervisors on other employees.
- →You will provide advice, counsel and instruction to employees on work and administrative matters and makes decisions on special problems.
- →You will be responsible for carrying out Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Equal Opportunity (EO) policies and communicating support of these policies to subordinates.
- →You will perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- ✓Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the OPM Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess All Professional Engineering Positions Series, 0800 Basic Requirements: A.
- ✓Degree: Engineering.
- ✓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)1, 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)2 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.
- ✓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.
- ✓Applicants who qualify on the basis of major study in biology or geology must have had at least 6 semester hours in the major directly concerned with marine science or 6 semester hours in oceanography; applicants who qualify on the basis of other physical sciences or engineering must have had differential and integral calculus and at least 6 semester hours in physics.
- ✓Computer Science Series 1550 Basic Requirements: Bachelor's degree in computer science or bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science.
- ✓At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus.
- ✓All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions.
Personality Fit
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