Information regarding opportunities, how to submit your resume and your contact information is located on the Air Force Civilian Careers LinkedIn site. The Test and Range Safety Office provides Range safety support to ensure that the general public, test area personnel, public and private lands, and test area resources are provided an acceptable level of safety, and that test operations adhere to public laws and Department of Defense directives.

Duties

For additional information on direct hire opportunities with the Air Force please click here. Serves as supervisor/rating official for personnel assigned to the office. Serves as Chief of the Range Safety Division within the Test Wing Safety office, serving as the Test Wing's range safety subject matter expert. Responsible for: laser operations, directed energy operations, range ground and explosive safety, landing zone/drop zone operations, weapons impact footprints, flight termination debris footprints. Advises the Test Wing Commander on safe conduct of range operations and highlights program aspects with elevated risk to make leadership aware of the impacts.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Telework may be authorized.
• 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/
• This position requires a top secret clearance and may require clearances with special access.
• This is a drug testing designated position. The incumbent is subject to pre-employment drug testing as a condition of employment, and participation in random drug testing.
• Supervisory requirements may be required depending upon the position being filled.
• Promotion potential may be authorized depending upon position being filled.
• For additional information on direct hire opportunities with the Air Force please go to https://afciviliancareers.com/find-a-job/
• This position has been designated as an Non-Critical Acquisition Position and is covered by the Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP).
• The employee must meet, or be capable of meeting Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) certification requirements applicable to the career category designated on the position description within 24 months of assignment.
• This position also requires the employee to engage in acquisition continuous learning activities achieving 80 Continuous Learning points every 24 months.
• This position may require some flying as a flight test engineer.
• This position, although performed in the general office environment, may require frequent CONUS and/or foreign travel away from the AFTC for periods of up to three weeks or more at a time, depending on project requirements.
• Engineering degree required.
• DAWIA Certification at Advanced level.
• Approximately three weeks of travel per year.

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 All Professional Engineering Positions positions located here SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower broadband NH-03, equivalent to the next to lower grade GS-13 or equivalent in the Federal Service. Specialized experience must include: Supporting customers through the development of weapon safety footprints, flight termination system design and certification compliance with Range Commander's Council standards, laser safety analysis, and real-time mission support. This includes inter- and intra-range safety analysis, planning, coordination, and test execution; Deep engineering experience serving at the CTF level with experience in the test safety review process; Familiar with range operations and safety; Supervisory experience desired (hiring employees, annual appraisals, etc.); and Familiarity with flight termination system engineering. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: 1. Expert knowledge of advanced concepts, principles, and techniques across multiple interrelated and integrated technical and test engineering disciplines. 2. Expert knowledge of test and range safety evaluation involving flight sciences, avionics systems, and electronic warfare disciplines. 3. Expert knowledge of flight and laboratory air vehicle/missile/weapon test conduct, coordination and supervision, data analysis/evaluation and applicable flight test truth sources, modeling and simulation, safety package preparation, and administrative aspects of flight test programs. 4. Strong 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. Strong ability to research, analyze, interpret, and apply rules, regulations, and procedures to a variety of situations and to recommend timely and economical solutions. 6. Strong ability to maintain good working relations and to provide supervision and training to subordinate technical and clerical personnel as well as to provide technical leadership and project management oversight. 7. Strong ability to communicate effectively with a broad range of personnel both orally and in writing and to use modern computer software applications in support of communications and presentations.

Education

Basic Requirements:
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) 2examination 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 allinclusive.) Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise.

Contacts

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