Supervisory Interdisciplinary Physical Scientist / Oceanographer

About the company

You will serve as a Supervisory Interdisciplinary Physical Scientist/Oceanographer in the Ocean Collections Division (N94), Ocean Projects Department (N9) of NAVOCEANO BAY ST LOUIS.

Your tasks

• You will execute the required branch projects by assigning resources within allocated budgets, sets project objectives, priorities and schedules.
• You will prepare and submit budget requirements to support planned work, facilities and hardware acquisitions for the branch.
• You will provide direct technical and administrative supervision to Engineers, Electronic Technicians, Equipment Management Specialists Oceanographers, Physical Scientists and staff.
• You will plan and direct technical efforts in establishing requirements for acquiring and maintaining spare parts, technical manuals and related documentation, technical training, support equipment and facilities for operational survey systems.
• You will monitor the operational condition status, take appropriate action to correct deficiencies, and advise survey and scientific project managers and the Operations Office on these problem areas.

Requirements

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience in leading technical projects and supervising multi-disciplinary teams of personnel. Demonstrated ability to lead technical processes or projects; define scope; establish personnel requirements; direct multidisciplinary teams; and supervise completion of complex projects. Operational experience with autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), oceanographic sensor systems such as: multibeam echosounders; acoustic sonars; Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs); conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) systems; and associated support equipment, including maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, deployment, recovery, and at-sea operations. Demonstrated experience in Fiscal budget formulation, execution, and tracking; Allocation and management of personnel, equipment, or other resources; Requirements management; Government Purchase Card, contracts, or Defense Logistics Agency support processes; Survey cruise card preparation, coordination, or management; Serve as a Contracting Officer's Representative (COR); Property Accountability, Inventory, & Property Custodianship. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/general-physical-science-series-1301/ https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/oceanography-series-1360/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess Basic Requirements for 1301: Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. or Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Basic Requirements for 1360: Degree: major study of at least 24 semester hours in oceanography or a related discipline such as physics, meteorology, geophysics, mathematics, chemistry, engineering, geology, or biology, plus 20 additional semester hours in any combination of oceanography, physics, geophysics, chemistry, mathematics, meteorology, computer science, and engineering sciences. or Combination of education and experience -- course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Applicants who qualify on the basis of major study in biology or geology must have had at least 6 semester hours in the major directly concerned with marine science or 6 semester hours in oceanography; applicants who qualify on the basis of other physical sciences or engineering must have had differential and integral calculus and at least 6 semester hours in physics.