Commercialization Program Manager

The Department of Energys mission is to ensure Americas security and prosperity by addressing its energy environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions.

The Office of Technology Commercialization office works to develop and oversee the delivery of the Department of Energys strategic vision and goals for technology commercialization and engagement with the business and industrial sectors across the United States.

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As a Commercialization Program Manager you will:

• Organize and administer technology commercialization programs to include the Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) to transition laboratory research into the commercial market.
• Serve as a senior technical advisor in physical sciences and engineering to evaluate the technical feasibility maturity and risks of proposed energy technologies and commercialization projects.
• Analyze technology-to-market programs to assess their effectiveness identify performance barriers and recommend strategic improvements.
• Foster collaborative partnerships and coordinate initiatives among national laboratories plants sites other federal and state agencies and private-sector stakeholders.
• Develop detailed project plans schedules and budgets to ensure milestones are met and program resources are managed efficiently.
• Prepare and deliver technical briefs reports and presentations to explain complex scientific and engineering concepts and justify program recommendations to senior leadership and external groups.

• You must be a United States Citizen.
• This employer participates in the e-Verify program.
• If you are a male applicant born after December 31 1959 you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law. See .
• If selected you may be required to complete a one year probationary period.
• If selected your appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position is not remote the selectee will be expected to report to the duty station(s) listed. If selected military spouses veteran caregivers and spouses of foreign service employees may be eligible for applicable workplace flexibilities.
• Occasional travel maybe required.
• This position is not included in a Bargaining Agreement.
• You are required to submit a Financial Disclosure Statement OGE-450 Executive Branch Personnel Confidential Financial Disclosure Report upon entering the position and annually (5CFR Part 2634 Subpart I USOGE 6/08).

BASIC REQUIREMENT:

You must meet both the Basic Requirement and the Specialized Experience to qualify for this series as described below.

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.

OR

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 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 A. 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.)

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: A qualified candidates online application and resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level GS-12 in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position is defined as meeting 2 of the following 3:

1. Provide guidance on technology commercialization lab-to-market funding programs energy end-use sectors or technology maturation processes that advance program objectives.
2. Act as a technical point of contact to build consensus among corporate partners research facilities academic institutions Tribal organizations and DOE National Laboratories for all joint technology commercialization projects.
3. Assist with writing briefing materials or reports that are used by management to develop technical recommendations that advance technology commercialization objectives.