Information regarding opportunities, how to submit your resume and your contact information may is located on the Air Force Civilian Careers LinkedIn site. In this position you will provide technical and professional engineering expertise for the planning, provisioning, conduct, evaluation, and reporting of open air, installed vehicle, system integration laboratory, and hardware-in-the-loop tests of air vehicles. The incumbent provides overall test planning expertise for assigned projects.

Duties

For additional information on direct hire opportunities with the Air Force please click here. Serves as Combined Test Force (CTF) Participant in the development of the overall plans such as the Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP), Test Plan (TP), Test Cards, and other management and technical documents. Participates in and provides integrated engineering support for source selections, requests for proposal, design reviews, test planning working groups, test plan technical and safety reviews, test card preparation and execution, and other test planning and execution activities. Formulates, directs, interprets, and applies test planning and test philosophy and policy for the organization to ensure technical validity, efficiency, safety, and credibility in test and evaluation of the weapon system and subsystems. Incumbent is responsible for implementing and executing an integrated approach to test activities. Develops and/or presents engineering and program review reports, and conducts briefings to local and higher-level command officials and domestic dignitaries, as required. Participates in and provides integrated engineering support for source selections, requests for proposal, design reviews, test planning working groups, test plan technical and safety reviews, test card preparation and execution, and other test planning and execution activities.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Telework may be authorized. Up to 20% telework is possible (Must reside in the local area)
• If authorized, PCS will be paid IAW JTR and AF Regulations. If receiving an authorized PCS, you may be subject to completing/signing a CONUS agreement. More information on PCS requirements, may be found at: https://afciviliancareers.com/regulatory/
• Requires Top Secret/SCI security clearances as well as possible clearances with special access programs or other accesses.
• Locations are not negotiable. The actual duty locations available may be located on the Air Force Civilian Service website.
• This is a designated Drug Testing Position. Random drug testing may be required depending upon the position being filled.
• For additional information on direct hire opportunities with the Air Force please go to https://afciviliancareers.com/find-a-job/
• ABET Accredited BS in Aeronautical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering
• Physical Exam Required when duties require flying: Member must obtain and maintain a valid FAA Second Class Medical Certificate and abide by the rules and regulations documented in the FAR/AIM associated with the medical certificate
• Obtain and maintain a certified AF Flying Class III IAW DAFMAN 48-123, Section 1.2.6. and the Medical Standards Directory (MSD).
• Comply with AFI 48-123 and MSD for continued flying class III qualifications and requirements to see flight surgeon for DNIF/RTFS determination.
• This position also requires the employee to engage in acquisition continuous learning activities achieving 80 Continuous Learning points every 24 months.

Qualifications

For additional information on direct hire opportunities with the Air Force please click here. In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, All Professional Engineering positions located here SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower broadband NH-02 or equivalent to the next lower grade GS-11 in the Federal Service. Specialized experience providing technical and professional engineering expertise for the planning, provisioning, conduct, evaluation, and reporting of open air, installed vehicle, system integration laboratory, and hardware-in-the-loop tests of air vehicles. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities 1.Knowledge of advanced concepts, principles, and techniques across multiple inter-related and integrated technical and test engineering disciplines. 2.Knowledge of combat aircraft avionics, armament, radar, sensor, survivability, or electronic warfare systems correlated systems and subsystems. 3.Knowledge of flight and laboratory air vehicles/missile test conduct, coordination, and supervision, data analysis/evaluation and applicable flight test truth sources, modeling/simulation, technical report preparation, and administrative aspects of flight test programs. 4.Ability to plan and organize work, coordinate between various electronic/aerospace/mechanical engineering and test disciplines, and coordinate with other Air Force, DOD, and other domestic and foreign government agencies. 5.Ability to research, analyze, interpret, and apply rules, regulations, and procedures to a variety of situations and to recommend timely and economical solutions. 6.Ability to maintain good working relations; provide project management oversight; and provide technical direction, leadership and training to matrixed engineers. Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

Education

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.)

All transcripts must be submitted with application.

Contacts

• Address EHA DHA 550 C Street West JBSA Randolph AFB, TX 78150 US
• Name: Air Force Test Center Recruitment
• Email: [email protected]