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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in civil, mechanical, material, or industrial engineering or a closely related technical field in engineering and physical sciences.
• 10+ years of experience in Science and Technology Development.
• Documented qualification as having served in one of the following capacities: US Navy Surface Warfare Officer, US Navy Submarine Officer, Pilot in Command of a US Navy or Marine Corps Tactical Aircraft.
• Experience and proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 (specifically, Word, Power Point, Outlook, SharePoint Online, Teams, and Excel).
• Ability to communicate clearly, effectively, both orally verbally and in writing.
• Experience in working independently and collaboratively.
• Ability to organize and coordinate meetings.
• Demonstrate creativity, foresight, professionalism, and mature judgment in anticipating and addressing scientific, business, financial, or program management tasks.
• Demonstrate professionally polite, proficient and effective verbal and written communications skills that are void of slang, colloquialisms and/or phrases that could be interpreted as vulgar or offensive.
• Secret Clearance required.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.

Nice To Haves

• Communication skills to build relationships with a variety of stakeholders including ONR Program Officers, ONRG Science Advisors, warfighters, acquisition sponsors in program offices, transition sponsors in OPNAV or TYCOMs, and engineers and scientists in the NR&DE.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience working in a Department of the Navy Acquisition Program Office or Systems Command facilitating collaboration on S&T issues between US Navy Stakeholders (OPNAV, PEO/PM and Fleet Forces).
• Working knowledge of the Naval Research and Development Establishment (NR&DE) community - Naval Warfare Centers, SYSCOMS, Labs, and University Affiliated Research Centers (UARC’s).

Responsibilities

• Provide US Navy S&T Technical Services to the ONR Global Director of TechSolutions.
• Perform technical analysis to enhance the government’s ability to make highly informed decisions regarding prototype technology investments.
• Conduct technical analysis across a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines to meet the Program’s goals of delivering prototypes to the Fleet/Force.
• Utilize operational experience to understand the warfighter’s technology priorities.
• Evaluate technical proposals to assist the government in identifying the technical merits of the proposed technology.
• Represent the TechSolutions Program during intensive coordination with stakeholders.
• Engage in technically proficient communications with Fleet/Force Operators, Technical Developers (in and out the NR&DE), US Navy Acquisition/Transition Stakeholders, US Navy System Commands and the Operational Navy (OPNAV) Staff, regarding the technical merits of various prototype solutions.
• Recommend validation steps to mathematically quantify the value of new technology requests that are received from the Fleet/Force.
• Network with ONR Program Officers, other technology SME’s, ONRG Science Advisors, and NR&DE developers to assess the state of the technology that has been requested.
• Schedule and execute meetings within five business days to deliver a report on the state of technology development to the requesting warfighter and/or a representative from their command, ONR SMEs, and stakeholders, in order to validate the operational need for prototype development.
• Conduct technical analysis within five business days to determine whether a technology solution is already available, will soon become available, or require development to solve the warfighter need.
• Provide a technical analysis to mathematically quantify the maturity of specific technology within commercial industry and government solution providers.
• Conduct technical inquiries with NR&DE developers, S&T SME’s, ONR HQ Program Officers, ONR MILDEPS, and other representatives from the ONR Codes, to identify research being conducted, or existing development already underway, as potential fit as a TechSolutions requirement.
• Provide a technical analysis of the proposals and whitepapers received at TechSolutions and mathematically quantify the validation of the research that has been conducted.
• Coordinate with Technical stakeholders to collect their verbal and/or written evaluations for each new TechSolutions request.
• Coordinate with ONR SME’s, document the stakeholders’ technical stake and post the data to the TechSolutions online portal.
• Execute distribution (with 1 business day of solicitation closure) of white papers/proposals received by TechSolutions to evaluate team members.
• Coordinate with ONR HQ and the ONR Global KM Team to post a written summary of the award on the TechSolutions blog containing the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of the project.
• Update blog content weekly by documenting active projects technical highlights, technical achievements and transition success stories.
• Evaluate Project Reports for technical deficiencies and contact Principal Investigator’s (PI’s) regarding missing or technically deficient reports.
• Ensure most current Project Report information has been posted to the ONR HQ shared drive and the TechSolutions Web Portal.
• Collect, review for accuracy (reporting requirement deadlines are met and technical progress matches the proposed schedule) and distribute Monthly Technical Reports.
• Solicit input from, and coordinate with, ONR Reserve Component, ONR Command Master Chief and the TechSolutions team, to document outreach plans and events for connecting with warfighters.
• Capture and document outcomes from the engagement regarding who, what, where, when, of attendees, new requests generated and discussion results, and report to TechSolutions leadership.
• Research strategic guidance issued from Navy and Marine Corps leadership relating to operational priorities.
• Conduct technical evaluation to support topic validation to align the TechSolutions portfolio with these priorities.
• Represent the TechSolutions Program at program officer portfolio reviews and technical exchange sessions.

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• 401K
• Holidays