MAJOR DUTIES:

The Division Chief has full responsibility for establishing, managing and providing technical direction for the Operations Division. The Chief monitors progress toward organizational goals and periodically evaluates and makes appropriate adjustments to such goals. In addition, the Chief supervises development of policies that directly impact the ability of the NWS to meet its mission requirements to protect life and property. Specifically, the incumbent has full responsibility for the discharge of the following essential organizational functions for the National Weather Service:

1. Ensures the development of policies and procedures for the acquisition, installation and maintenance of operational meteorological and hydrological equipment;

2. Ensures the development of policies and procedures for providing and maintaining adequate facilities for all NWS offices, meteorological observatories, and supporting facilities;

3. Ensures the development of plans and schedules for implementation and activation of all new equipment systems which are to be activated on an NWS field wide basis including overhaul and replacement of existing systems and facilities to maintain the operational availability;

4. Conducts technical reviews, evaluations, and analyses of the operational equipment systems to ensure conformance to specified objectives and standards, and is responsible for correcting all deviations and deficiencies from planned objectives;

5. Serves as Chairman of Technical Evaluation Committees and is a member of source evaluation boards for major national equipment procurement costing several million dollars.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

You must have one year of specialized experience at a level close to the work of this job that has given you the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities required to successfully perform. Typically we would find this experience in work within this field or a field that is closely related.

To be rated and considered for this position, applicants are requested to fully describe their experience in each of the following five (5) Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) and the (3) Professional/Technical Qualifications (PTQs). When addressing the ECQ and PTQ requirements, please use the first person. As you assess and describe your leadership qualifications.

Specialized Education: Basic Qualification Requirements

Degree: professional engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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 professional 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.

You must be a U.S. citizen to qualify for this position.

After appointment, you will be subject to random testing for illegal drug use.

In order to qualify for entry into this position, the selectee must possess a Secret security clearance.

You will be required to make occasional travel.

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