You will serve as the Air Vehicle (AV) Systems Engineer supporting the Air Systems Group and F-35 (JPO). You will provide systems engineering expertise, and leadership to the AV Engineering Department, other joint services, and country partners. You will work early acquisition requirements, development, test, and sustainment. You will manage the lead engineers for air vehicle aircraft & pilot systems, utility & subsystems, flight technology, software, and airframes on all three F-35 variants.

Duties

You will serve as the 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 technical systems engineering sound support to the Program and SSASI Systems Engineers, IPTs, Class Desks, Joint Services, Partners, and Chief Engineers. 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 and coordinated technical, contractual, and organizational inputs and guidance to the overall program and its master schedule. You will support preparation of program acquisition, technical documents, and briefings related to Air Vehicle, and other technical domains within the position scope. You will develop RFPs, to include modification of SOWs, Specs, and other applicable engineering efforts. You will lead and coordinate systems technical reviews including, but not limited to the traditional SETR efforts. You will develop and coordinate 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. Coordinating these resources and leading the efforts to ensure correct resources. This includes fiduciary resources. You will perform as the lead for model-based systems engineering (MBSE). You will perform as the lead for software. This is relevant and specific to the technical domains supported within the purview of the position.

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.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or fail the test. You will be subject to random testing.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12-13 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. Identifying and articulating the principles, theories, techniques, practices, mission, and organizational structure as it relates to Air Vehicle Engineering, JPO - partners/services, & Systems Engineering. 2. Providing high level expertise in the following: Systems Engineering; Project Management; and extensive knowledge in Air Vehicle Engineering Technical Domains, Model Based Systems Engineering, Software, Propulsion & Power, and JPO Program Mission Requirements with respect to capabilities, schedule, & costs. 3. Developing program plans, and the coordination of work efforts by field activities and contractors. 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.

Contacts

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