Public Notice for Aerospace Engineer (Direct Hire)

Summary

Direct hiring authority for the 0861 series is being used to fill this position. Public Notices serve as a resume repository, and positions may or may not be filled from this announcement.

Duties

Incumbent may perform professional engineering duties/responsibilities in planning, research, development, design, test and evaluation, analysis, production, fabrication, operation, type certification, and/or maintenance of aerospace vehicles or integrally associated equipment. Position opportunities also may include responsibilities in investigating phenomena encountered in aerospace flight, monitoring and analyzing unknown or unfamiliar aerospace vehicles, piloting aerospace vehicles, developing aviation safety standards and regulations, as well as staff/team leadership and guidance related to aerospace engineering programs. The work requires application of scientific and engineering principles in the field of aeronautics and astronautics, such as aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, astrodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, fluid mechanics, flight dynamics, flight structures, thermodynamics, flight propulsion, and energy conversion and use.

Qualifications

Reference U.S. OPM Individual Occupational Requirements for Professional Engineering Positions https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf in conjunction with the Group Qualification Standard for Professional & Scientific Positions https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=GS-PROF. BASIC REQUIREMENTS 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)1, 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)2 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). TO QUALIFY AT THE FV-G (FG/GS 5/7/9) LEVEL: You must meet the Basic Requirements as stated above. TO QUALIFY AT THE FV-H (FG/GS 11-12) LEVEL: In addition to the above Basic Requirements, you must demonstrate in your application you possess one (1) year of Specialized Experience* equivalent to FV-G (FG/GS 5/7/9) level. Specialized Experience may include but is not limited to: collecting and analyzing flight data; performing trend analyses; developing technical reports; conducting analysis related to safety of commercial space flight systems and operations. OR Education Substitution: 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, gained from an accredited college or university. The education should provide the knowledge and skills required to do the work of the position. OR Combination of education and experience may be qualifying for this position. TO QUALIFY AT THE FV-I (FG/GS-13) LEVEL: In addition to the above Basic Requirements, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of Specialized Experience* equivalent to the FV-H (FG/GS 11-12) level. Specialized Experience may include but not limited to: experience with airborne system software development, verification, configuration management; experience in the design, test, or certification of aircraft avionics and/or electrical systems, such as power generation and distribution, communication and navigation systems, automatic flight controls, air data systems, lightning protection, electronic systems integration, system safety analysis, and airborne electronic hardware. TO QUALIFY AT THE FV-J (FG/GS-14) LEVEL: In addition to the above Basic Requirements, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of Specialized Experience* equivalent to the FV-I (FG/GS-13) level. Specialized Experience may include but not limited to: experience designing, directing, and evaluating research efforts required to develop and substantiate data used in developing/refining standards and criteria for aircraft operations, flight dynamics, flight mechanics, aircraft systems and other aeronautical issues; and conducting wake turbulence analyses. TO QUALIFY AT THE FV-K (FG/GS-15) LEVEL: In addition to the above Basic Requirements, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of Specialized Experience* equivalent to the FV-J (FG/GS-14) level. Specialized Experience may include but not limited to: managing and directing the work performed by engineers, technical, & administrative personnel leading safety and flight test risk management studies and projects; utilizing analytical tools in identifying trends in flight safety; and managing resources to improve or maintain the quality and effectiveness of assigned aerospace engineering programs. *Specialized Experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular kno