Attachment_2__-_Labor_Categories.docx

Attachment 2 - Labor Category Qualifications

Program Manager (Key Personnel)

Minimum/General Experience: MS/MA degree with ten (10) years relevant professional experience or BS/BA degree with fifteen (15) years professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for BS/BA degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Formulates and enforces work standards, assigns schedules, monitors work progress, supervises personnel, and communicates policies, goals, and objectives. Responsible for the overall management of performance and for ensuring technical solutions are designed, developed, and implemented on schedule and within budget.

Project Manager (Key Personnel)

Minimum/General Experience: MS/MA degree with five (5) years relevant professional experience or BS/BA degree with ten (10) years professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for BA/BS degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Leads teams on projects of significant volume or complexity. Analyzes project goals, and risks. Applies innovative solutions to financial, scheduling, and technological problems . Implements organizational tools and methodologies to pursue technical solutions according to a structured and scientific process.

Subject Matter Expert

Minimum/General Experience: PHD degree with five (5) years relevant professional experience or MS/MA with ten (10) years professional experience or BS/BA with fifteen (15) years professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for MS/MA or BA/BS degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Provides technical knowledge and expert study for specialized applications. Conducts systems analysis, design, integration studies, and produces applicable documentation. Generates advice regarding complex issues requiring graduate-level knowledge of the subject matter. Applies advanced principles, methods and knowledge to exceptionally difficult and narrowly defined technical problems in engineering and science.

Test Director (Key Personnel)

Minimum/General Experience: MS/MA with ten (10) years relevant professional experience or BS/BA with fifteen (15) years professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for MS/MA or BA/BS degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Manages activities related to logistics, safety, communication, and operations throughout all phases of test execution. Provides arrangements for test equipment, environments, and laboratories. Secures test clearances, permits, and other applicable approvals. Schedules test activities in accordance with test planning documents, including contingency and reserve planning. Directs contractor test participants, data collectors, and support personnel to ensure efficient operation and accomplishment of test plan goals.

Test Engineer (Key Personnel)

Minimum/General Experience: MS with five (5) years relevant professional experience or BS with ten (10) years professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for MS or BS degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Reviews, defines, and develops test standards for the testing of technologies, equipment or systems in accordance with defined requirements. Writes or assists in the development of test plans, procedures, processes, and requirements documents. Identifies risks and provides mitigation strategies. Reviews test results, trends, and recommends resulting actions. Provides technical expertise on technologies, test scenarios, equipment, and operating environments. Generates reports and reviews documents generated during test planning, execution, and reporting activities.

Statistician

Minimum/General Experience: MS/MA with no relevant professional experience or BS/BA with five (5) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for MS/MA or BA/BS degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Applies statistical theories and methods to solve practical problems in engineering and science. Provides input supporting decisions regarding what data are needed to answer specific questions or problems. Develops innovative methods for finding or collecting data. Analyzes and interprets data, conducts statistical hypothesis testing and confirmatory data analysis to develop and report conclusions.

Systems Analyst (Key Personnel)

Minimum/General Experience: MS/MA with no relevant professional experience or BS/BA with five (5) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for MS/MA or BA/BS degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Systematically investigates performance, interfaces, interactions, and impacts to guide the development of new or improved systems and processes. Utilizes analytical tools to assess capabilities, develop requirements, model systems and document system functions and attributes. Participates in reliability, logistics, maintenance, performance and organizational studies. Develops recommendations regarding process improvement, optimization and risk management for a wide variety of systems.

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Minimum/General Experience: MS/MA with ten (10) years relevant professional experience or BS/BA with fifteen (15) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for MS/MA or BA/BS degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Designs and develops computer-based tools to address a variety of requirements. Conducts requirements analysis; systems analysis and design; program design and documentation preparation using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, and other accepted design techniques. Reviews existing programs and assists in the design and development of software architectures that facilitate integration of applications.

Junior Programmer/Analyst

Minimum/General Experience: MS/MA with no relevant professional experience or BS/BA with five (5) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for MS/MA or BA/BS degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Designs and develops computer-based tools to address a variety of requirements. Conducts requirements analysis; systems analysis and design; program design and documentation preparation using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, and other accepted design techniques. Reviews existing programs and assists in the design and development of software architectures that facilitate integration of applications.

Senior Data Analyst (Key Personnel)

Minimum/General Experience: MS/MA with ten (10) years relevant professional experience or BS/BA with fifteen (15) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for MS/MA or BA/BS degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Manages and models data with the goal of developing conclusions that assist decision making. Assesses data quality, corrects data errors, determines data reliability, identifies missing data and outliers and completes data transformations to allow for meaningful analysis of a variety of data types. Performs all aspects of the data analysis process in order to summarize conclusions and document findings.

Junior Data Analyst

Minimum/General Experience: MS/MA with no relevant professional experience or BS/BA with five (5) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for MS/MA or BA/BS degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Manages and models data with the goal of developing conclusions that assist decision making. Assesses data quality, corrects data errors, determines data reliability, identifies missing data and outliers and completes data transformations to allow for meaningful analysis of a variety of data types. Performs all aspects of the data analysis process in order to summarize conclusions and document findings.

Senior Engineer (Key Personnel)

Minimum/General Experience: MS with ten (10) years relevant professional experience or BS with fifteen (15) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for MS or BS degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Applies engineering principles and practical knowledge to design and improve materials, systems, devices, and processes. Utilizes structured methods to solve technical problems. Transforms user needs into detail and performance requirements. Completes design iteration, system performance validation, and product/system analysis during all phases of the product/system lifecycle.

Middle Engineer

Minimum/General Experience: MS degree with five (5) years relevant professional experience or BS degree with ten (10) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for MS or BS degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Applies engineering principles and practical knowledge to design and improve materials, systems, devices, and processes. Utilizes structured methods to solve technical problems. Transforms user needs into detail and performance requirements. Completes design iteration, system performance validation, and product/system analysis during all phases of the product/system lifecycle.

Junior Engineer

Minimum/General Experience: MS with no relevant professional experience or BS with five (5) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for BS degree.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Applies engineering principles and practical knowledge to design and improve materials, systems, devices, and processes. Utilizes structured methods to solve technical problems. Transforms user needs into detail and performance requirements. Completes design iteration, system performance validation, and product/system analysis during all phases of the product/system lifecycle.

Senior Physical Scientist

Minimum/General Experience: MS degree with ten (10) years relevant professional experience or BS degree with fifteen (15) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for MS or BS degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Determines data collection methods for research projects and experiments. Conducts scientific analysis of collected samples to generate experimental data and formulate conclusions. Prepares laboratory test environments and carries out experimental methods.

Junior Physical Scientist

Minimum/General Experience: MS degree with no relevant professional experience or BS degree with five (5) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for BS degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Determines data collection methods for research projects and experiments. Conducts scientific analysis of collected samples to generate experimental data and formulate conclusions. Prepares laboratory test environments and carries out experimental methods.

Senior Information Technology Specialist

Minimum/General Experience: BS/BA degree with ten (10) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for BS/BA degree.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties:

Designs, develops, engineers, and implements solutions that meet networking requirements. Performs a wide variety of tasks in software/hardware maintenance and support of IT systems. Provides system administration of network, web, and/or communication systems, including Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) systems.

Junior Information Technology Specialist

Minimum/General Experience: BS/BA with two (2) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for BS/BA degree.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Designs, develops, engineers, and implements solutions that meet networking requirements. Performs a wide variety of tasks in software/hardware maintenance and support of IT systems. Provides system administration of network, web, and/or communication systems, including Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) systems.

Senior Electronics Technician

Minimum/General Experience: Associate degree and five (5) years relevant professional experience or Vocational Certificate and eight (8) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for an Associate degree or Vocational Certificate.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Performs electronic assembly, installation, testing, equipment set-up, field service and repair. Troubleshoots electronics down to the component level to determine cause and remedy of any malfunction. Performs required repairs to return electronics to an operational state. Operates hand tools and small power tools and understands their use and function.

Junior Electronics Technician

Minimum/General Experience: Associate degree and no relevant professional experience or Vocational Certificate and three (3) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for a Vocational Certificate.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Performs electronic assembly, installation, testing, equipment set-up, field service and repair. Troubleshoots electronics down to the component level to determine cause and remedy of any malfunction. Performs required repairs to return electronics to an operational state. Operates hand tools and small power tools and understands their use and function.

Senior Mechanical Technician

Minimum/General Experience: Associate degree and five (5) years relevant professional experience or Vocational Certificate and eight (8) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for an Associate degree or Vocational Certificate.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Reads blueprints, schematics, and diagrams to determine the method and sequence of assembly of a part, machine, or piece of equipment. Reviews technical manuals to understand equipment operation and controls. Operates equipment and tools to assemble, install, repair, calibrate, and test various mechanical assemblies.

Junior Mechanical Technician

Minimum/General Experience: Associate degree and no relevant professional experience or Vocational Certificate and three (3) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for a Vocational Certificate.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Reads blueprints, schematics, and diagrams to determine the method and sequence of assembly of a part, machine, or piece of equipment. Reviews technical manuals to understand equipment operation and controls. Operates equipment and tools to assemble, install, repair, calibrate, and test various mechanical assemblies.

Human Factors/Ergonomics Specialist

Minimum/General Experience: MS degree with no relevant professional experience or BS degree with five (5) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for BS degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Analyzes interactions of human operators with systems and environments to develop design requirements and optimize performance. Considers a myriad of factors such as the design of displays and controls, the allocation of functions between the machine and humans, the effects of heat, vibration, noise, and lighting on the operator, human cognition, attention, memory, sensation and perception, workload and staffing, and individual and team performance. Draws upon many disciplines in the study of humans and their environments including anthropometry, biomechanics, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, industrial design, information design, kinesiology, physiology, and psychology.

Technical Editor

Minimum/General Experience: BS/BA with six (6) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for BS/BA degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Plans, reviews, and revises content of material for documenting technical and scientific activities. Guides the production of complex technical reports and presentations to ensure effective communication and technical accuracy. Provides editing function for a range of publication formats including web-based and multimedia information products.

Technical Writer

Minimum/General Experience: BS/BA with four (4) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for BS/BA degrees.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Understands complex information and determines the optimum method to document and communicate technical plans, reports, and records. Organizes and writes supporting documents for technical and scientific activities. Utilizes photographs, diagrams, charts, and schematics to increase reader’s understanding.

Technical Illustrator CAD/CAM

Minimum/General Experience: Associate degree with four (4) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for Associate degree.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Utilizes various Computer-Aided Design/ Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) and graphics programs to create new and edit existing drawings, schematics, and 3D models. Documents dimensions, materials, and assembly procedures for fabricated products in accordance with design specifications. Designs visual representations and creates illustrations that communicate information concisely and accurately.

Senior Fabricator

Minimum/General Experience: Associate degree and five (5) years relevant professional experience or Vocational Certificate and eight (8) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for an Associate degree or Vocational Certificate.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Reads and understands blueprints, assembly schematics, and associated geometric dimensioning and tolerancing. Applies knowledge of cutting, milling, joining, and finishing processes to produce specified fabrications from an array of materials. Utilizes a multitude of fabrication shop equipment and performs basic dimensional inspection of finished components and assemblies.

Junior Fabricator

Minimum/General Experience: Associate degree and no relevant professional experience or Vocational Certificate and three (3) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for an Associate degree or Vocational Certificate.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Reads and understands blueprints, assembly schematics, and associated geometric dimensioning and tolerancing. Applies knowledge of cutting, milling, joining, and finishing processes to produce specified fabrications from an array of materials. Utilizes a multitude of fabrication shop equipment and performs basic dimensional inspection of finished components and assemblies.

Documentation Specialist

Minimum/General Experience: Associate Degree with four (4) years relevant professional experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for an Associate degree.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Applies an understanding of design and technology to efficiently complete data entry, collating, assembling, formatting, and publishing activities. Participates in the assembly of reports, data sets, and presentations. Utilizes online publication and multimedia tools in order to generate comprehensive and effective information products.

Data Collector

Minimum/General Experience: HS diploma or equivalent with four (4) years relevant professional experience.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Participates in field tests, evaluations, and experiments as a primary data gathering asset. Records and organizes data in electronic and shorthand formats for ease of compilation and analysis. Reviews and understands test plans for data gathering and measurement procedures.

Administrative Specialist

Minimum/General Experience: HS diploma or equivalent with four (4) years relevant experience.

Proposed personnel for this category shall have demonstrated experience which is the same or substantially similar to the typical duties for this category.

Typical Duties: Performs routine administrative, clerical and related duties. Utilizes automated office software suites including word processing, spreadsheets, electronic mail, graphics, database, and communications systems. Generates correspondence, reports, presentation material, briefings and memos. Provides logistical support for meetings and presentations.