GENERAL ENGINEER

Summary

You will serve as a GENERAL ENGINEER - AIR VEHICLE SYSTEMS ENGINEER in the AIR SYSTEMS GROUP, SYSTEM SAFETY AND AIR SYSTEMS INTEGRATION DEPARTMENT, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND INTEGRATION DIVISION, AIR VEHICLE SYSTEMS INTEGRATION BRANCH of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV.

Duties

• •You will serve as the Air Vehicle Engineering lead providing engineering leadership to the Air Vehicle engineering team.
• •You will manage and coordinate engineering development, requirement adherence and technical issue resolution for the Air Vehicle engineering team.
• •You will support preparation of program acquisition and technical documents and briefings.
• •You will perform requirements analysis, conduct functional analysis and allocation, conduct synthesis and select preferred product solutions.
• •You will identify, analyze, and mitigate risk in accordance with program risk management plan.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or DP-04 pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Providing comprehensive Systems Engineering expertise across the full lifecycle of air vehicle systems, from design and testing to in-service support; 2) Applying knowledge of the required technical domains (e.g., aerodynamics, flight controls, landing gear, etc.) and in the aviation systems acquisition lifecycle; 3) Familiarity with aerodynamics, store separation, aero performance, simulation, flight dynamics, flight controls, strength and fatigue, loads and dynamics, aircraft structural life surveillance, airframe technology, metals and ceramics, adhesives and sealants, non-destructive inspection, polymers and composites, environmental safety and occupational health, corrosion, environmental control systems and icing, fire protection, hydraulics and pneumatics, fuel containment and aerial refueling, mechanisms, internal and external cargo, transparencies, fasteners, bearings, landing gear, software, and system safety; 4) Ability to support well-reasoned written documentation that clearly presents and defends analyses and positions on technical or management issues for review by leadership; 5) Ability to clearly articulate and defend analyses and positions on technical or managerial issues, and present these conclusions convincingly to leadership; 6) Providing engineering technical and programmatic leadership for the development and qualification of military aviation systems; and 7) Leading multi-disciplinary, joint, and geographically dispersed engineering teams to ensure the successful design, qualification, and lifecycle support of naval air systems. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. OR 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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org OR 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 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. OR Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above) OR 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 one 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.