INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER

Summary

You will serve as an INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER in the HYDRAULICS & PNEUMATICS BRANCH, AIR SYSTEMS GROUP, AIR VEHICLE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, SUBSYSTEMS DIVISION of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV. This is a RE-ADVERTISEMENT of Announcement Number: ST-13054276-26-AJW. Applicants that have previously applied NEED to re-apply to this announcement. The duty location of this position is Patuxent River, MD.

Duties

• •You will provide risk acceptance procedures for aviation hardware to characterize and accept risk.
• •You will use industry specifications such as SAE specs, MIL standards, and MIL-HDBK-516 requirement.
• •You will identify and solve a wide variety of complex problems with many competing objectives, variables and constraints.
• •You will deliver optimized technical solutions that are balanced to achieve required technical performance within cost, schedule and technology constraints.
• •You will identify, analyze, communicate, and mitigate engineering safety risks across the system life cycle.
• •You will provide structured, safety centered responses to address technical issues without compromising minimum airworthiness requirements.
• •You will provide a structured, repeatable approach for managing simultaneous urgent requests while protecting safety, quality, and customer commitments.
• •You will provide a comprehensive, structured response that protects airworthiness while helping the program establish a documented, technically defensible path forward.
• •You will develop, review, execute, approve, and/or manage functional test, maintenance, qualification, acceptance, troubleshooting, or verification procedures for aircraft hydraulic and pneumatic hardware.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-11) grade level or pay band (DP-03) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Providing technical recommendations related to Hydraulic systems for the purpose of technical improvements, qualification requirements, and operational risk mitigation; 2) Overseeing the functioning of, as well as the qualification and verification of hydraulic and/or other subsystem components; 3) Working individually or as part of a group to propose solutions to acquisitions and sustainment problems while being conscious of cost, schedule, and risks; 4) Managing competing workload priorities and effectively communicating engineering bandwidth; and 5) Demonstrating a thorough understanding of hydraulic and pneumatic concepts, components, systems, schematics, and/or engineering documentation and specifications. 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.