Job Summary

The Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center (TAC), headquartered in Eatontown, NJ, is a multi-disciplined organization of acquisition professionals & support staff which provides streamlined business and contracting solutions for a variety of major Information Technology programs. The TAC leverages its Procurement, Engineering, and Operations Divisions to provide its customers with innovative acquisition guidance in support of their complex technology procurement needs.

Job Description

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 06/15/2026. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Individual Occupational Requirements: To qualify for this position, you must meet the individual occupational requirements for General Engineering Series, 0801: A. Degree: 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) , 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 engineering positions. 2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. 3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. 4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.) Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise. Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: evaluating the value and applicability of new or improved project technologies, strategies, trends, or applications based on program and mission objectives with unusual demands or major constraints (e.g., funding, labor, materials, and scheduling); providing expert technical advice to senior acquisition colleagues and/or agency officials responsible for systems requirements of hundred-million-dollar projects resolving unique or novel problems, conditions, or issues (i.e., interoperability, reliability, maintainability, and configuration integrity) of acquisition requirements; or exercising judgment and ingenuity in assessing and executing technical strategies and actions to affirm the integrity, economy, quality, and effectiveness of information technology programs. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/. The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be found well qualified, applicants must meet the following qualifications: five years of serving as a technical authority reviewing work for consistency with, and potential impact on, broad agency objectives and program goals, and for contribution to the advancement of the field of professional engineering (i.e., comprehensive, in-depth knowledge of mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences applicable to a specialty field of engineering); has exercised leadership, creativity, and imagination to multidisciplinary or cross-functional teams to motivate and instigate improvements in the extension, advancement, and achievement of significant objectives in science and technology; and has applied the art and science of a specialty area of an engineering or architectural discipline sufficient to formulate, evaluate, nurture, and promote the generation and exchange of new theories, concepts, principles, methods, applications, and practices. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/. Local Commuting Area: The local commuting area for this position is defined as a radius of 50 miles from Eatontown, NJ. This includes all locations that fall within a 50-mile driving distance from 23 Christopher Way, Eatontown, NJ 07724.