You will serve as a General Engineer in the Air Systems Group, System Safety and Air Systems Integration Department, System Engineer and integration Division, Air Vehicle Systems Integration Branch of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV. This position is the air vehicle systems engineer position that will support Air Systems Group and PMA 271.

Duties

You will serve as Air Vehicle Systems Engineer providing direct access to and coordination of the Air Vehicle engineering team and other internal and external ASG team members as required to meet mission success. You will provide timely and technically systems engineering sound support to the Program and SSASI Systems Engineers, IPT Lead, Class Desk, and Chief Engineer. You will prioritize and coordinate work within the engineering team, and other teams as required. You will ensure appropriate technical representation and facilitating support across the NAVAIR disciplines for the Air Vehicle engineering team. You will provide timely, coordinated technical inputs and guidance to the overall program master schedule. You will support preparation of program acquisition and technical documents and briefings related to Air Vehicle and other technical disciplines as required. You will assist with the development of RFPs, to include modification of SOWs, Specs, and other applicable engineering efforts. You will assist with performing requirements analysis, conduct functional analysis and allocation, conduct synthesis and select preferred product solutions. You will ensure the team identifies, analyzes and explains risk mitigation options in accordance with program risk management plan. You will review relevant technical changes and major variances to ensure proper coordination and recommends approval/disapproval of such changes with regard to established requirements, plans, scheduling and funding. You will ensure correct resources are provided and adjusting as stakeholders require.  This includes fiduciary resources. You will lead teams that are multidisciplinary and senior within the NAWCAD organization. You will perform as the model-based systems engineering (MBSE) architect in CAMEO or other designated MBSE modeling software.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Acquisition Functional Area and category assigned to the position is required within established category timeframes.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least I have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower pay band DP-04 or grade level (GS-12/13) in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional Engineer/Scientist. Examples of specialized experience for this position include: 1) Applying professional systems engineering working knowledge and experience concerning the technical oversight of aircraft weapon system and associated subsystems and components; 2) Evaluating aviation program objectives to identify and correct deficiencies within an established aviation program, 3) Providing technical guidance to project managers, customers, and integrated product teams on specific technical aspects for an air weapons system; 4) Utilizing technical acumen and expertise to identify, analyze, solve problems and mitigate risks in accordance with program requirements, and 5) Interpreting policies promulgated by authorities to determine their effect on aviation program needs. Additional education and qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management websites: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series 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.

NOTE: YOUR RESUME REFLECTS THAT YOU COMPLETED SUCH EDUCATION AND/OR YOU HAVE SUBMITTED COLLEGE TRANSCRIPT(S) AS EVIDENCE TO SUBSTANTIATE YOUR CLAIM IN COMPLETING SUCH EDUCATION FOR THIS POSITION. ALSO, YOU UNDERSTAND THAT IF YOU DO NOT PROVIDE SUCH INFORMATION, THEN YOU COULD BE RATED AS LACKING EDUCATION REQUIREMENT(S) FOR THIS POSITION.

Additional education and qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management websites:

• https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf
• https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series

Contacts

• Address NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV Naval Air Warfare Center Patuxent River, MD 20670-5304 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]