Summary
The Technical Director serves as a key technical expert and authority directing federal oversight activities, project goals, and nuclear safety/engineering facilities operations at the Project Management Office. The position is responsible for providing technical leadership, administrative direction, and programmatic oversight for a complex multi-billion-dollar project portfolio supporting NNSA's national nuclear weapons stockpile mission.
Duties
As a General Engineer you will: Evaluate contractor performance to determine whether contractor-performed work meets standards of adequacy. Engages in the project technical, cost, and schedule status along with budget formulation and execution. Ensures rigorous implementation of the contract requirements and identification of quality project performance indicators. Reviews and approves project costs to ensure proper classification and use of funds. Monitors and assists the Federal Project Directors with the controls of the Total Project Cost baselines for projects. Ensures the project performance baselines are established and maintained. Lead effective long-term planning, collaborating with the Federal Project Directors and NNSA Construction Contracting Officers in the development of annual, multi-year, or similar types of long-range work plans and schedules for Project Management Office work, including any NNSA direct contracted work. Provide expert advice to the Project Management Office managers, and other management officials on broad project and program technical engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) execution. Provides significant and innovative recommendations for advancing the projects and programs and/or EPC systems, processes, and procedures. Provides technical direction and guidance to contractors to ensure that long-range project plans are properly developed by providing EPC expertise in one or more designated engineering functional area(s) relevant to the project and or the PMO. Implements the principles of the Department's Safety Management System Policy in programs for which the Associate Administrator is responsible. This includes the demonstration of an appropriate emphasis on ensuring the technical competence of the Federal staff associated with those programs, and the conduct of effective oversight in the accomplishment of the related work products and schedules. Implement the principles of the Department's Safety Management System Policy in programs for which the Associate Administrator is responsible, including emphasis on ensuring the technical competence of the Federal staff associated with those programs, and the conduct of effective oversight in the accomplishment of the related work products and schedules. Provides subject matter expertise to identify problem areas, evaluate hazards, develop cost beneficial corrective action, and assure timely implementation to keep risks, issues and opportunities to the site, personnel, and facilities as low as practical. Leads Integrated Project Team(s) which consists of members responsible for coordination and resolution of issues associated with high hazard and/or technically complex projects in the areas of business management, contract management, EPC management, operational start-up, Environmental Safety and Health (ES&H), nuclear safety, and nuclear security. Directs, coordinates, and facilitates integrated Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Security, Environmental, and Industrial ES&H requirements within the PMO and projects. Be responsible for the supervision of engineers/physical scientists typically at the NN/EN-III to NN/EN-IV level. Selects new employees for vacant positions; establishes and evaluates work performance of subordinates. Hears and resolves complaints from employees, referring group grievances and more serious unresolved complaints to higher level manager. Effects minor disciplinary measures such as warnings and reprimands, recommending other actions in more serious cases. Identifies developmental and training needs of employees, providing or arranging for needed development and training.
Requirements
Subject to Random Drug Testing Must pass a pre-employment drug test. Favorable suitability determination required. Financial Disclosure is required. Must be able to obtain/maintain a Q level Security Clearance. You must be a United States Citizen. This employer participates in the e-Verify program. Males must abide by Selective Service registration requirements. Compliance with Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-12) governing personal identity which will require that you provide two forms of identification. A two (2) year trial period may be required. Employees serving on a trial period may be terminated at any time during the trial period for performance, conduct, or business-related reasons in the interest of Federal service. More than one position may be filled from this vacancy announcement. Please limit your resume to no more than two (2) pages. If more than two pages are submitted, only the first two pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualifications. Your full resume will be made available to the hiring manager if you are referred. Trial periods are required for all excepted service employees. Trial periods served in the same position and agency with no break in service will satisfy the requirement.
Education
You must meet the positive education requirement in addition to the specialize experience to be considered. This position has a positive education requirement defines as: General Engineer 0801: A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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)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. If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements: EDUCATION: Education must be obtained from an accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Applicants who have completed part or all of their education outside of the U.S. must have their foreign education evaluated by an accredited organization to ensure that the foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the U.S. A written evaluation of any foreign education must be provided with your application in response to this vacancy announcement or be received by the closing date of this announcement. Failure to provide this evaluation will result in you being found unqualified for the position. For special instructions pertaining to foreign education, see the Department of Education website, and for a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, visit The National Association of Credential Evaluation Services. Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. **If you are selected, official transcripts will be required. **FOREIGN EDUCATION: Applicants who have completed part or all of their education outside of the U.S. must have their foreign education evaluated by an accredited organization to ensure that the foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the U.S. A written evaluation of any foreign education must be provided with your application in response to this vacancy announcement or be received by the closing date of this announcement. Failure to provide this evaluation will result in you being found unqualified for the position. For special instructions pertaining to foreign education, see the Department of Education website, and for a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, visit The National Association of Credential Evaluation Services. Please Note: If your foreign education has already been accepted by an accredited U.S. educational institution as part of a degree program with that institution, you do not need to provide an evaluation of foreign education but must submit a copy of the transcripts listing the degree from the U.S. accredited institution that accepted your foreign education. Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
How you will be evaluated
Your application will be rated by our application system using the Self-Assessment Rating procedure. THE APPLICATION REVIEW PROCESS WILL BE IN TWO STAGES: Minimum Qualifications: Once the application process is complete, the Human Resources Office will review the first two pages of your resume and supporting documentation to determine whether you meet the minimum job qualifications. Structured Resume Review: The Human Resources Office will review the first two pages of your resume to determine your technical qualifications. Additional documentation (e.g., cover letter, links embedded in your resume) may not be considered. Your application and resume shall 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 Competencies 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. If your resume is incomplete or does not support the responses you provided in your online questionnaire, or if you fail to submit all required documentation before the vacancy closes, you may be rated 'ineligible', 'not qualified'. To preview the application questionnaire, click the link below. https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13039885