Serves as an Airborne Science Platform Engineering Technician for the Avionics and Instrumentation Branch. Leads the avionics team on the DC-8 platform through its lifecycle, following the shifts to the ER-2 aircraft. Providing technical guidance, and management of avionics and instrumentation systems and equipment on highly modified aerospace research, science aircraft, vehicles, or airborne fixtures. Managing, planning, coordinating, and completing major complex avionics related projects.

Duties

Serves as a technical expert providing guidance, training, mentorship, and support to the assigned discipline team. Manages, coordinates, distributes, balances, monitors progress of, and evaluates the overall accuracy of the technical work performed. Ensures efficient use of resources, strategizes and assesses program effectiveness, develops methods to measure program success, establishes and communicates timelines, plans, needs, priorities, changes/assignments to supervisor and functional team. Works with project staff to plan, manage, and implement all aspects of avionics, instrumentation, and research/science modifications. This includes equipment and component selection and providing engineering design inputs to achieve desired results. Responsible for leading the discipline workforce through installation, integration, operation, testing, diagnostics, repair, modification, modernization, and maintenance of all avionics and instrumentation systems on assigned aircraft and fixtures. Uses advanced techniques to prepare layout design of avionics systems, subsystems, or equipment required by the project. Develops specifications for modifications, test, or repair of special / existing equipment, components, and related systems. Services, maintains, and repairs extremely complex analog and digital avionics systems. Performs maintenance to ensure that equipment is in safe and in an airworthy condition and is available for normal daily functions and emergencies. Prepares and performs engineering tests for prototypes of experimental hardware. Considers parameters established by engineers, ensures requirements such as adequacy of facilities, test equipment, and safety precautions are addressed. Uses comprehensive, intensive, and practical knowledge to direct and guide others in evaluating and recommending new or enhanced approaches for integration, testing, operational processes, and the safety analysis of process systems. Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork.

Requirements

• Current Federal employees must meet qualifications, time in grade, and 90 days after competitive appointment requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
• Position will require shift work, working from elevated surfaces, in confined spaces and extreme weather conditions, in areas with poor lighting, require lifting 50 lbs., etc.
• Position requires the selectee to successfully pass a vision test per NASA-STD-8739.6 and obtain and maintain a valid state and flightline driver's license and CPR certification.
• Position may require the selectee to obtain an FAA Class 3 Flight Physical clearance and to participate in flight activities as Secondary Air Crew.
• If the individual selected is currently at the GS-12 grade level, they will be detailed at their current grade and step. If the individual is a current GS-11 they will be temporarily promoted to the GS-12 level.
• Position subject to pre-employment background security investigation.

Qualifications

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. To qualify for GS-12, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in the Federal service Working on an aircraft platform or project in both the avionics and instrumentation disciplines; Performing repair, maintenance, installation, servicing, and troubleshooting of complex avionics and instrumentation systems; Assisting with assessing workloads, establishing timelines, identifying training needs and ensuring training/certification requirement compliance; Supporting the development of standards or procedures for maintenance or testing. Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Armstrong Flight Research Center 4800 Lilly Ave Edwards, CA 93523 US
• Name: NASA Shared Services Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-677-2123
• Email: [email protected]