Supervisory General Engineer

The New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) Division provides national and international leadership in planning, developing, initiating, and conducting new and innovative consumer information programs. The primary objective of the Division is to develop and coordinate the dissemination of consumer information on various aspects of motor vehicle and occupant protection systems that may induce market forces to enhance crash protection to adult and child occupants and vulnerable road users.As a Supervisory General Engineer, you will: The incumbent, as Division Chief, conceives, plans, directs, and supervises a series of engineering programs to develop and improve laboratory or full-scale crash test procedures for frontal, and side crash modes, test data collection, and information dissemination to fulfill legislative mandates. The incumbent serves as a national expert on crashworthiness and crash avoidance technologies in vehicles and safety assessment of these systems, occupant protection, marketing of consumer information, and consumer behavior. Duties of the incumbent are listed below: Develops and recommends the rationale and approach for testing passenger motor vehicles and associated equipment to assess crash avoidance capabilities, occupant crash protection, and vulnerable road user protection. Insures that the test results are accurate, timely, and presented in a fashion that will be beneficial and helpful to consumers in their vehicle purchasing. Assists consumers, members of Congress and other government and private organizations at the Federal, State, and local levels in understanding the agency's consumer information crash test and occupant and vulnerable road user protection programs. Assists in developing an information network to provide consumers with information on occupant protection. Provides advanced engineering assessments on the Division's programs and formulates recommendations for the agency's top management, senior technical personnel inside and outside of the agency, other government agencies, and cooperating outside organizations. The incumbent is responsible for successful accomplishment of the Division's programs, attainment of technical goals, adherence to the budget, and timely performance. In this capacity, the incumbent recommends the annual budget for the Division activities, develops detailed multi-year plans in coordination with other parts of the agency, and provides technical guidance to a staff of multi-disciplinary engineers and program analysts. Directs the dissemination of engineering test data and other technical information developed through contract and in-house programs; handles responses to non-routine requests for program information from Congress, various sources within the agency, other government agencies, private industry, and the general public; review and comments on policy matters, regulatory analyses, technical reports, research proposals, and various other matters. Leads, guides and directs members