Job Description
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Duties
As a Flight Systems Manager within the Earth Resources Observation Science Center, some of your specific duties will include:
* Serving as a recognized authority and principal expert of Landsat flight and ground systems providing day to day flight and ground systems operations oversight and leadership for Landsat missions.
* Directing and evaluating government and contractor performance to ensure space flight and ground operations are conducted according to standard operating procedure.
* Advising and consulting with a wide range of executive leadership, program coordinators, managers, federal agency partners, and international space agency partners on flight and ground operations issues and associated impacts on Center, USGS, and national programs.
* Providing technical leadership to managers regarding satellite flight dynamics and control, spacecraft bus power systems, imaging instrument payloads, space and ground communication systems, and data processing and storage systems.
* Managing flight and ground mission contracts, budgets, schedules, and risks. Works closely with USGS and NASA contracting officers to ensure mission activity is executed according to current practices, rules, and laws.
* Creating task orders, statements of work, work breakdown structures, agreements (interagency, international, etc.), and provides input to contractor performance feedback.
Conditions of Employment for this Position:
As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest will be evaluated.
This probationary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider:
- your performance and conduct;
- the needs and interests of the agency;
- whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
- whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated.
Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Additional Information
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Requirements Conditions of employment Key Requirements: 1. Applicants must be U.S. Citizens. 2. Suitable for Federal employment, as determined by background investigation. 3. Selectee may be subject to serving a one-year probationary period. 4. Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance. 5. More requirements are listed under Qualifications and Other Information. Are There Any Special Requirements For This Position? * Prior to appointment, the selectee will be required to take and pass, at Federal expense, a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use. From thereon, the individual may be subject to random drug testing. * If selected for this position, you may be required to file one or more financial statements upon reporting and annually, some of which may be subject to public disclosure. * Because this position requires travel for official business, the selectee will be required to apply for a charge card within 30 calendar days of appointment. Individuals who have delinquent account balances from a previous Government charge card will be required to satisfy their existing obligation before a new card can be issued. * A background investigation will be required for this position. Continued employment will be subject to the applicant's successful completion of a background security investigation and favorable adjudication. Failure to successfully meet these requirements will be grounds for termination. * Throughout the recruitment and hiring process we will be communicating with you via email; therefore, it is imperative that the email address you provide when applying for this vacancy remains active. Should your email address change, please notify the point of contact identified in the vacancy announcement as soon as possible so that we can update our system. Qualifications BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENT for all Professional Engineering Positions in the 0800 series: Applicants must meet A or B below to satisfy the basic education requirement for all Engineering positions, at all grade levels. A. Degree in Engineering: To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's 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- B. 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 Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing eng
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Compensation and Benefits
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Salary Range: $143,913.00 - $187,093.00 Per Year Benefits Provided: Not Available Other Benefits: Not Available
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