General Engineer
What you'd do
Located within the Office of Projects and Acquisition under the Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Front Office (NA-20). This General Engineer position focuses on formulating and executing acquisition strategies, lifecycle evaluations, and program delivery. The incumbent actively manages and supports a diverse portfolio of domestic and international programs, ensuring all projects and acquisition instruments directly align with and strategically advance the critical NA-20 nonproliferation mission.
Major duties
As a General Engineer you will: Monitor technical execution of highly complex, high-risk systems development and contracts to ensure strict engineering compliance and acquisitions. Demonstrated performance in supervising the technical execution of highly complex, high-risk systems development, or contracts to ensure strict compliance with government requirements. Monitor contractor progress, assessing technical data/metrics, and executing quality assurance surveillance to assure that the government gets what it has bargained for. Analyze technical proposals, managing engineering change requests, reviewing contractor cost-reimbursement vouchers, and ensuring strict fiscal stewardship. Collaborate and Interface between the Contracting Officer, Program Office, and Contractor, leading technical teams, and preventing or resolving technical disputes.
What you need to qualify
A qualified candidate's online application and resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower NNSA pay band level or GS grade level in the Federal Service, i.e.. NQ-03 or GS- 13/14. Specialized experience for this position is defined as: Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) & Performance Oversight: Experience serving as a COR or in an equivalent technical oversight capacity, including actively monitoring complex contractor activities, managing technical performance, ensuring on-time deliverable milestones, maintaining rigorous budgetary controls, and preparing formal contractor performance evaluation reports (e.g., CPARS). Examples of Qualified Experience: Generated comprehensive CPARS ratings, evaluating contractor responsiveness and quality management systems while maintaining a highly collaborative working relationship to resolve performance variances proactively. Evaluated technical proposals as an evaluator, ensuring compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) guidelines and agency-specific procurement standards. Authored detailed Statements of Work (SOW) defining precise scope boundaries, deliverable schedules, and security requirements. Constructed robust Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans (QASP) incorporating targeted checklists and performance thresholds to systematically verify vendor output quality. Developed detailed, resource-loaded Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCE) that served as the foundational benchmark for contract negotiations and budget requests. Your application and resume should demonstrate that you possess the following competencies. Do not provide a separate narrative written statement. Rather, you must describe in your application how your past work experience demonstrates that you possess the KSAs identified below. Cite specific examples of employment or experience contained in your resume and describe how this experience has prepared you to successfully perform the duties of this position. DO NOT write "see resume" in your application! "Experience" refers to paid and unpaid experience. Examples of qualifying unpaid experience may include: volunteer work done through National Service programs (such as Peace Corps and AmeriCorps); as well as work for other community-based philanthropic and social organizations. Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills; and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. You must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
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