Defense Contract Management Agency has authority to appoint
highly qualified individuals at the journeyman level, to
shortage category positions in the career fields listed below.
This authority may be used until September 30, 2015. Under the
recruitment procedures, we will accept resumes and make
selections for vacancies as they occur.
If you are interested in applying for a job with DCMA, we
have openings in the various positions listed below. Open
Continuous job announcements include the title, series, and
grade of the position (i.e., Contract Specialist GS-1102,
Quality Assurance GS-1910 etc) as well as the geographic
location. The job announcement are posted on www.usajobs.gov or for
more specific information related to jobs by location,
please visit www.dcmacareers.com and click on the "Apply Now" tab.
Please read the whole job announcement and follow directions
for applying.
Qualification Requirements: In addition to
meeting the basic OPM qualification standards, including at
least one year of specialized experience, candidates must also
meet the additional qualification requirements as shown below.
Engineering
Series (800)
Contract
Specialist (1102)
Industrial
Property Management Specialist (1103)
Industrial
Specialist (1150)
Quality
Assurance Specialist (1910) and Quality Assurance Engineers
(0801)
Earned
Value Mgmt Specialist (1515) and Earned Value Mgmt Engineers
(0801, 0830, 0850, 0855, 0861, and 0896)
Expedited
Hiring Authority for Highly Qualified (HQ) Packaging
Specialist (2032)
Criteria
for Expedited Hiring Authority For Highly Qualified (HQ)
Supply Management Specialist (2003)
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Criteria for
Expedited Hiring Authority For Highly Qualified (HQ) All
Engineering Series (800) |
All Engineering positions require at a minimum a bachelor's
degree related to this occupation from an accredited
educational institution authorized to grant baccalaureate
degrees.
The criteria for a highly qualified Engineer may be
meeting one or more of the following criteria relative to the
position being filled.
- Types of Professional Engineering Specialist Experience
as related to the specific series (i.e.,854 -Computer /
Software, 896 – Industrial & Manufacturing, 850 –
Electrical / Electronics,801 – Weapons, Space & Support
Hardware Systems, 861 – Aerospace)
- Project manager/Program manager experience
- Contract performance / delivery experience
- Experience monitoring quality assurance principles /
processes
- Negotiation experience
- Master’s or higher degree in applied engineering or
other relevant engineering disciplines
- Certification through professional organizations such as
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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Criteria for
Expedited Hiring Authority For Highly Qualified (HQ)
Contract Specialist (1102) |
All Contract Specialist positions require at a minimum a
bachelor's degree from an accredited educational institution
authorized to grant baccalaureate degrees; AND at least 24
semester hours of study from an accredited institution of
higher education in any combination of the following fields:
accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing,
economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative
methods, or organization and management obtained within or in
addition to the bachelor's degree.
This requirement applies to those entering DoD 1102
positions on or after Oct 1, 2000. Current civilian personnel
in DoD, who occupied GS-1102 positions or contracting
positions with authority to award or administer contracts
above the simplified acquisition threshold in an Executive
Department on or before September 30, 2000, are exempt from
meeting this requirement. Individuals who occupied a similar
occupational specialty to the GS-1102 while serving in the
military on or before September 20, 2000, are also exempt from
meeting this requirement.
The criteria for a highly qualified Contract
Specialist may be meeting one or more of the following
criteria relative to the position being filled.
- Financial/Credit Analysis
- Cost/Price/Economic Analysis
- Cost Estimating
- Cost Accounting
- Vendor/Supplier Selection experience
- Market Research experience
- Proposal Analysis Skills
- Negotiation experience
- Acquisition of Major Systems
- Professional Certifications such as Certified Management
Accountant, Certified Professional Contract Manager,
Certified Cost Estimator/Analyst, etc
- MBA’s, CPA, CPPM, CFA, CFP, M&A Securities, NASD
Dealer
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Criteria for
Expedited Hiring Authority For Highly Qualified (HQ)
Industrial Specialist (1150) |
The criteria for a highly qualified Industrial
Specialist may be meeting one or more of the following
criteria relative to the position being filled.
- Contract Manufacturing Systems (i.e., clothing,
subsistence, transportation, and weapons systems)
- Material requirements planning (MRP)
- Master production scheduling
- Manufacturing planning and control
- Lean manufacturing
- Root cause analysis
- Critical path analysis
- Risk assessment/analysis experience
- Pre and/or Post award experience
- Contract performance/delivery schedules
- Applied Engineering, Industrial Engineering or
comparable degrees, i.e. Statistical or Supply Chain, etc.
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Criteria for Expedited Hiring Authority For
Highly Qualified (HQ) Industrial Property Management
Specialist (1103) |
The criteria for a highly qualified Industrial
Property Management Specialist may be meeting one or
more of the following criteria relative to the position
being filled.
- Types of Industrial Property Management Specialist
Experience (i.e., acquisition, receiving, records, storage,
physical inventory, consumption, maintenance,
identification, utilization, movement, reports)
- Surveillance of property
- Disposal of government property
- Risk assessment/analysis experience
- Property Handling (i.e., ammunition, weapons,
explosives, hazardous materials, precious metals)
- National Property Management Association Certificate, or
similar certificates
- Business Science Degrees or Equivalent, i.e. Management,
etc.
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Criteria for Expedited Hiring Authority For Highly
Qualified (HQ) Quality Assurance Specialist (1910) and Quality
Assurance Engineers (0801) |
The criteria for a highly qualified Quality
Assurance Specialist and Quality Assurance Engineers may be
meeting one or more of the following criteria relative to the
position being filled.
- Types of Quality Assurance Experience (i.e.,
Electronics, Aircraft, Clothing, Automotive, Mechanical,
Aerospace, Ammunition, Nuclear, Naval Propulsion)
- Ability to use metrology and statistical methods to
diagnose and correct improper quality control practices, an
understanding of human factors and motivation, facility with
quality cost concepts and techniques
- Knowledge and ability to develop and administer
management information systems and to audit quality systems
for deficiency identification and corrections
- Knowledge of Quality Assurance Contractual provisioning
- Quality Engineering Experience
- Ability to perform Quality Auditor analyzes on all
elements of a quality system and judges its degree of
adherence to the criteria of industrial management and
quality evaluation and control systems.
- Ability to analyzes and solves quality problems, prepare
inspection plans and instructions, selects sampling plan
applications
- Ability to prepare procedures, train inspectors, perform
audits, analyzes quality costs and other quality data, and
applies fundamental statistical methods for process control
- American Society of Quality Control Certification or
comparable certification
- Certified in Production and Inventory Management or
Certified Supply Chain Professional
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Criteria for Earned Value Management Specialist (1515)
and Earned Value Management Engineers (0801, 0830, 0850, 0855,
0861, and 0896) |
The criteria for a highly qualified Earned Value Management
Operations Research Analyst (1515) and Earned Value Management
Engineers (0801 General Engineer, 0830 Mechanical Engineer,
0850 Electrical Engineer, 0855 Electronics Engineer, 0861
Aerospace Engineer, 0896 Industrial Engineer) may be meeting
one or more of the following criteria relative to the position
being filled.
In order to qualify for an Operations Research Analyst position
(1515 series), applicants must have at a minimum, a
bachelor’s degree in operations research; or any related
degree with at least 24 semester hours in a combination of
operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics,
mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses
requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics
or statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have
been in calculus. View specific curriculum
requirements.
In order to qualify for an Engineering position (0801, 0830,
0850, 0855, 0861 or 0896 series), applicants must have
at a minimum, a bachelor’s degree in professional
engineering. View specific curriculum
requirements.
- Earned Value Management knowledge and Earned Value
Management Systems experience
- Experience in providing technical advice and assistance
to internal and external customers on earned value with an
emphasis on the analysis, evaluation, and validation of
program cost / schedules, cost / scheduling systems, and
cost / scheduling software tools
- Demonstrated ability to review and evaluate supplier's
cost / schedule data to determine whether mechanical /
systems design, production, integration, and test events are
realistic or will meet contractual requirements
- Knowledge and ability to develop and administer
management information systems and to audit supplier Earned
Value Management systems for deficiency identification and
corrections
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and solve mathematical,
predictive, and statistical modeling problems, prepare and
conduct data analysis instructions and training and conduct
technical data analysis evaluations
- Experience in providing recommendations to predict
future events or explain past events through quantifiable
trend analysis, automated tracking tools and engineering
models as they pertain to earned value management using
expert knowledge of each supplier’s management system and an
understanding of the technical parameters of the program
- Experience in directing/evaluating supplier cost /
schedule data and systems to determine whether mechanical
design, production, integration, and test events yield a
producible, effective, operational product within the
schedule, and cost requirements of the program
- Evaluation experience includes determining accurate,
effective, operational viability of cost / schedule data to
yield predictive analysis results regarding critical path
analysis, project estimates at completion, quantifiable cost
/ schedule risk assessments using automated modeling and
simulation techniques
- Experience in evaluating compliance with the ANSI/EIA
748 EVMS Guidelines by analyzing cost and schedule data from
the supplier's EVM system using COTS cost and schedule tools
including Microsoft Project, Primavera, Open Plan, Artemis,
Pertmaster, @Risk, wInsight, Cobra, MPM, Excel, Access and
SQL Server.
- Demonstrated ability to further analyze cost and
schedule data by developing ad-hoc analysis tools using
Visual Basic for Application (VBA), Structured Query
Language (SQL), Microsoft Excel and Access
- Certified in Earned Value Management or Project
Management
- Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in mathematics,
engineering, related field or equivalent
Duty Locations are limited to: Dallas TX, Boston MA, Tucson
AZ, Orlando FL, Carson CA, Minneapolis/St. Paul MN, and Fort
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Expedited Hiring Authority for Highly Qualified (HQ)
Packaging Specialist (2032) |
The criteria for a highly
qualified packaging Specialist may be meeting one or
more of the following criteria relative to the position being
filled. Minimum requirements include Military
Logistics and formal instructor training. The ideal
candidate will possess much of the below experience or
training.
Supply Chain Management or Military Logistics
experience such as:
- Ability to read, interpret and apply contracting clauses
from DoD contracts
- Military Leadership training such as ROTC, OCS or senior
enlisted leadership academies (descriptions vary between
services, but generally have been attended military
personnel at the E7 and above levels in all services)
- Corporate Leadership/Management training or equivalent
formal education.
- Participation in or leadership of Integrated Process
Teams (IPT), team leadership or supervisory experience
- Military Preservation, Packaging and Packing knowledge
and experience
- Experience in directing/evaluating supplier cost /
schedule data and systems to determine whether mechanical
design, production, integration, and test events yield a
producible, effective, operational product within the
schedule, and cost requirements of the program
- Evaluation experience including incident, trend and root
cause analysis of problems such as shipping damage
- Customer Service experience
- Military Logistics experience including familiarity with
some or all of the following shipping, receiving, packaging,
packing, preservation, Radio Frequency Identification
(RFID), Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) handling, shipping and
storage
Quality Assurance background or experience such as:
- Knowledge of Quality Assurance Contractual provisioning
- Quality Engineering Experience
- Ability to perform Quality Auditor analyzes on all
elements of a quality system and judges its degree of
adherence to the criteria of industrial management and
quality evaluation and control systems
- Ability to analyzes and solves quality problems, prepare
inspection plans and instructions, selects sampling plan
applications
- Ability to prepare procedures, train inspectors, perform
audits, analyzes quality costs and other quality data, and
applies fundamental statistical methods for process control
- Demonstrated ability to review and evaluate supplier's
cost / schedule data to determine whether mechanical /
systems design, production, integration, and test events are
realistic or will meet contractual requirements
Training Background and experience such as:
- Formal training as an instructor
- Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver training
materials
- Experience as a Teacher, Trainer or Instructor of
vocational subjects of similar complexity to Military
Packaging, Marking, RFID and Hazardous Materials regulations
and instructions
- Deployment/Redeployment planning or execution in support
of DoD operations
Desirable Education and Certifications (any of the below
add value)
- DAWIA – any field, but level 2 in Life Cycle Logistics
is preferred
- Associates Degree or above desirable
- Military Packaging Professional (MPP)
- Certified in Production and Inventory Management or
Program Management or Supply Chain Management
- American Society of Quality Control Certification or
comparable certification
- Military Senior Enlisted, Warrant or Company Grade
Officer (E7-O3)
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Criteria for Expedited Hiring
Authority For Highly Qualified (HQ) Supply Management
Specialist (2003) |
The criteria for a highly qualified Supply Management
Specialist (2003) may be meeting one or more of the following
criteria relative to the position being filled.
- Experience in initiating, developing, installing, or
administering Procurement Systems, Material Requirements
Planning (MRP) Systems, and Production Planning and Control
(PPC) systems
- Experience in Statistical Process Control (SPC) and
Statistical Application and Evaluation to the level of
performing calculations and working resolutions to out of
tolerance values. Developing confidence levels as it
pertains to establishment of service levels as well
experience in Poisson distributions and probability
distributions as related to supply chain issues such as on
time delivery, parts failures or scrap and rework issues
- Experience in initiating, developing, installing, or
administering Business Systems Evaluations, such as but not
limited to MRP systems, SAP, or systems such as Advanced
Planning & Scheduling systems, with emphasis on
evaluation of Industry Supply Operations or Supply
Management Programs as to determine operation adequacy
and/or system deficiencies
- High Proficiency with computer software with specific
emphasis on database programs such as Access or SQL and
demonstrated proficiency developing applications in these
type databases utilizing MS Excel, visual basic or other
tools and programming languages.
- Experience in initiating, developing and determining
appropriate specifications, metrics or values to assess
procurement, supply chain and/or manufacturing system
performance. This experience should include methodologies
for mining data to proactive determine trends, methods or
techniques which facilitates data driven decision making
- Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering or
comparable degrees, i.e. Applied Engineering, Statistics,
Mathematics, etc.
- Certified Supply Chain Professional, Production and
Inventory Management, Black Belt and/or Lean Six Sigma
Certifications
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