• Job Description

  Req#: 856148500
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  Duties
  
  
  The United States Space Force (USSF) at Schriever SFB, CO is searching for a Mission Engineer to support MD 9 (NH-0801-03, GS-12/13 equivalent).
  
  Description:
  Mission Delta 9 (MD 9) is looking for 2 stellar engineers to support the acquisition, development, and sustainment of weapon systems, subsystems, and support equipment for the 9th Sustainment Squadron. The mission of MD 9 is to prepare, present, and project assigned and attached forces for the purpose of conducting protect and defend operations and providing national decision authorities with response options to deter and, when necessary, defeat orbital threats.
  
  Ideal Candidate:
  Candidate should have a knowledge of the theories, concepts, principles, practices, standards, methods, techniques, and materials of multidisciplinary professional engineering to effectively apply engineering theories, principles, and concepts to areas of responsibility. Should also have knowledge of the principles of planning, program management, and standard acquisition regulations, practices, and procedures. Finally, candidate must possess a professional engineering degree at the bachelor's level from an ABET accredited institution.
  
  
  Key Skills and Abilities:
  1. Knowledge of the theories, concepts, principles, practices, standards, methods, techniques, and materials of multidisciplinary professional engineering to effectively apply engineering theories, principles, and concepts to areas of responsibility.
  2. Knowledge of the principles of planning, program management, and standard acquisition regulations, practices, and procedures.
  3. Knowledge of safety, security, personnel management, and EEO regulations, practices, and procedures.
  4. Ability to plan, coordinate, or advise on work efforts, or to resolve operating problems by influencing or motivating individuals or groups who are working toward mutual goals. The work involves engineering, planning, developing, and carrying out vital administrative processes.
  5. Ability to independently research, evaluate, interpret, and apply rules, regulations, and procedures to a variety of situations and to recommend timely and economical solutions.
  6. Familiarity of military (including command level) program goals and objectives; the sequence and timing of key operational events and milestones; methods of evaluating the effectiveness of planning actions related to actual events; and the relationship of the various command entities involved in overall program planning and execution of military operations and evaluations.
  7. Knowledge of the application of military space operations expertise as they apply to programs and weapons systems.
  8. Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and with technical accuracy, both orally and in writing, as well as work in a professional manner with peers, management, contractors, academia, and other agencies.
  9. Knowledge of computer programming including Python and Java.
  
  
  
  
  Requirements
  
  
  • Must be a U.S Citizen.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret / SCI security clearance.
  • Safeguards classified or sensitive budget-related information and/or files.
  • May be required to work overtime on an unscheduled or emergency basis.
  • Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed “Unscheduled Telework”.
  • This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.
  • Employee may be required to perform travel by military or commercial passenger aircraft in the performance of temporary duty assignments.
  • PCS / Relocation funding is not authorized.
  • Employee is in a designated position that requires consent and thereafter be subject to and successfully complete, an initial, periodic and random counterintelligence (CI)-scope polygraph examination.
  • Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): 30 days a year.
  • Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP): yes
  • This is a drug testing designated position. The incumbent is subject to pre-employment drug testing as a condition of employment, and participation in random drug testing.
  • Position requires a professional engineering degree at the bachelor's level from an ABET accredited institution is required. Advanced degrees are preferred.
  • The employee must meet the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) requirements applicable to the duties of the position.

• About the company

  The United States Department of the Air Force is one of the three military departments within the Department of Defense of the United States of America. The Department of the Air Force was formed on September 18, 1947, per the National Security Act of 1947 and it is the military department the United States Air Force and the United States Space Force are organized within.

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