Supervisory General Engineer

As a Supervisory General Engineer you will perform the following duties:

• Serve as the lead RF engineering expert for OSM and principal advisor for the technical assessment and analysis of federal views for domestic and international spectrum regulatory and policy development by providing technical leadership advice and assistance on complex controversial or precedent setting matters with high-level officials.
• Lead and supervise technical analyses to support the development and assessment of domestic and international spectrum policy and regulations including for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World Radiocommunication Conferences (WRCs) Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rulemakings and NTIA Manual of Regulations and Procedures for Radio Frequency Management (Redbook).
• Establish overarching methodologies and processes for conducting RF analyses and measurements across OSM.
• Serve as the supervisor of SEAD with responsibility for planning work schedules organization of work and assignment of tasks issuing guidance or instructions for nonroutine or complex assignments recruiting and selecting new employees for the division and staff career development including performance plans and reviews.
• Oversee the conducting or assessment of high-level analyses of RF propagation link budgets modulation schemes and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) for terrestrial airborne and space-based systems.
• Oversee the conduct or assessment of technical impact evaluation of new and proposed systems on shared and adjacent bands ensuring protection of critical federal systems (e.g. communications radar satellite aviation).
• Work closely with other Federal agencies and the private sector to identify opportunities for cooperation on domestic and international initiatives related to identifying new and managing existing spectrum resources.
• Apply knowledge of the statutory and regulatory frameworks that serve as the basis for spectrum management policy domestically and internationally especially the NTIA Redbook and ITU Radio Regulations.
• Represent NTIA and the U.S. government on interagency or intergovernmental working groups committees or conferences relating to technical and policy issues domestically and internationally.
• Serve as a principal speaker or panel member in a wide variety of workshops seminars and conferences.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
• This position requires a SECRET CLEARANCE: Any required investigations and clearances must be completed before the selectee can be placed in the position.
• You must successfully pass a background investigation. This may include a credit check a review of financial issues as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use of possession of drugs.
• A probationary period may be required.
• A supervisory probationary period may be required.
• Selective Service: Males born after 12/31/59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see you receive a conditional offer of employment for this position you will be required to complete an Optional Form 306 Declaration for Federal Employment and to sign and certify the accuracy of all information in your application.
• All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choosing.
• Bargaining Unit Position: No
• Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE form 450): No
• Permanent Change of Duty Station (PCS) Expense: Will not be paid
• License required: No
• Drug Test Required: This position is subject to pre-employment drug testing and random drug testing thereafter.
• Recruitment Incentive may be offered (New Federal employees only)
• Relocation Incentive may be offered (Current Federal employees only)

Qualifications

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Managements website located at:
must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps AmeriCorps) and other organizations e.g. professional; philanthropic religious; spiritual; community student social). 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.

To qualify at the GS-15 level applicants must meet the following:

BASIC REQUIREMENTS: All Applicants must meet the basic requirements listed below:A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable the program must: (1) lead to a bachelors 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.

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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 Boards eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. 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.
3. 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. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelors degree in an appropriate scientific field e.g. engineering technology physics chemistry architecture computer science mathematics hydrology or geology may be accepted in lieu of a bachelors degree in engineering provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)