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TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER
Naval Sea Systems Command · Posted 53 days ago
About the Role
You will serve as a Technical Project Manager for the Afloat Counter Unmanned Systems (ACUS) portfolio within the Integrated Engagement Systems Department (E), Gun Weapon Systems Division (Code E30) or the Advanced Hypersonic Weapons & Guided Munitions Division (Code E20) of NAVSURFWARCENDLD. This position is part of the Warfare Centers Personnel Demonstration Project. ND-05 is equivalent to GS-14/15.
What You'll Do
- →You will serve as a Technical Project Lead (TPL) for the Afloat Counter Unmanned Systems (ACUS) portfolio.
- →You will be responsible for the technical baseline and risk management, employing an agile, iterative approach to evaluate emerging technologies and ensure the continuous delivery of safe, authorized, and effective C-UxS solutions.
- →You will lead technical efforts by coordinating activities across Ship Integration and Certification, Launcher and Gun-Based Effectors, Fire Direction, and Systems Engineering.
- →You will provide hands-on guidance to a diverse engineering team, ensuring strict adherence to engineering best practices and driving the technical review of all deliverables.
- →You will lead a cross-functional team to ensure successful project execution and alignment with program and sponsor goals, while fostering collaboration across technical and programmatic disciplines to achieve project success.
- →You will evaluate emerging technologies and systems to accelerate delivery of rapid capabilities to the Fleet, employing a highly agile, iterative engineering approach focused on continuous/rapid deployment of effective ship self-defense solutions.
- →You will provide hands-on technical leadership to a diverse engineering team, resolving complex system issues, enforcing engineering best practices, and validating all technical deliverables prior to fleet release.
- →You will serve as the primary technical engineering authority, owning the engineering approach, driving key design decisions, and actively managing technical risks to ensure system viability.
- →You will formulate strategic technical guidance and roadmaps in collaboration with the ACUS leadership team to ensure project activities integrate seamlessly into the overall program strategy and support the long-term viability of C-UxS capabilities.
- →You will lead the technical execution and delivery of project products to the Fleet, interfacing directly with program offices, InService Engineering Agents (ISEA), and stakeholders to ensure seamless integration.
- →You will manage, execute, and report on project operations, serving as the first line of escalation for project-specific successes and challenges, and collaborating closely with program leadership to address and resolve issues.
- →You will execute rigorous administrative project management duties, including developing Statements of Work (SOW), spend plans, and ensuring compliance with NSWCDD, E Department, Division, and Afloat Counter Unmanned Systems (ACUS) policies.
- →You will serve as the primary project representative, communicating effectively with team members, sponsors, and external organizations (as delegated by the PM) to ensure complete transparency and alignment with overarching program goals.
Requirements
- ✓This is an interdisciplinary position and may be filled by a General Engineer (0801 series), a General Physical Scientist (1301 series), an Operations Research Analyst (1515 series), a Mathematician (1520 series), or a Computer Scientist (1550 series) depending upon the qualifications of the candidate.
- ✓Applicants in positions with occupational series other than those listed (0801, 1301, 1515, 1520 and 1550) may apply; however, you must apply directly to the series listed in this vacancy that is most applicable to your qualifications.
- ✓Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: FOR THE 0801 - General Engineering Series: A.
- ✓Successful completion of a professional engineering degree.
- ✓Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
- ✓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.
- ✓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 The FE examination is not administered by the U.
- ✓Office of Personnel Management.
- ✓For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.
- ✓Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above).
- ✓The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above) OR E.
- ✓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.
- ✓FOR THE 1520 - Mathematics Series: A degree in mathematics or the equivalent of a major that included at least 24 semester hours in mathematics; or, a combination of education and experience demonstrated by courses equivalent to a major in mathematics (including at least 24 semester hours in mathematics, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
- ✓FOR THE 1550 - Computer Science Series: A degree in computer science or degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science.
Personality Fit
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