Interdisciplinary

**Duties**:

- Serves in a scientific/engineering developmental position performing specified portions or minor phases of assignments pertaining to research, design, development, testing, product quality or maintenance of armaments and/ or weapon systems.
- Investigates component, processes, test, experimental deficiencies and recommends to a project leader, possible solutions.
- Participates with higher grade scientists/engineers in developing concepts, subsystems, processes, or experiments related to mission items.
- Supports armament and/or weapon systems during various phases of the product life cycle.
- Assists with the overall development and product improvement programs including program plans, costs, facilities, time schedules and the integration of requirements.
- Studies scientific/engineering tasks, periodicals, manufacturer's publications and other technical material to obtain information on materials, equipment, and pertinent data.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- Ability to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance.
- Three year trial/probationary period may be required.
- You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
- This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 25% of the time.
- This is an Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Workforce position.
- Selectee must meet position requirements for Engineering and Technical Management Foundational Certification within 36 months of entrance on duty.
- Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act Career Field Position.
- College/university transcripts (official/unofficial) MUST include name of applicant, name of college/university, type of degree, discipline, and date degree awarded.

**Qualifications**:
**Who May Apply: US Citizens**
- **To qualify at the DB-02 (GS-05 equivalent entry level), you must meet the basic requirement below. **Applicants who meet the basic requirements described in the individual occupational requirements are fully qualified for the specified entry grade.
- Basic Requirement for Engineering:

- A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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
1. Professional registration or licensure - Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), 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.
- 2. Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
- 4. Related curriculum - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's 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 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.

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