You will serve as a GENERAL ENGINEER in the Air Systems Group, Air Vehicle Engineering Department, Subsystems Division, Fuel Systems & Aerial Refueling Branch of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV. Salary range for Lakehurst, New Jersey $134,468 - $191,900 Salary range for Paxtuent River, Maryland $ 139,395 - $191,900

Duties

You will serve as the NAVAIR Senior Engineer responsible to ensure the integrity, technical excellence, responsiveness, balanced perspective, and operational relevance of the fuel and thermal management systems. You will serve as technical liaison with in-service engineers, industrial organizations, and committees for aircraft fuel and thermal management systems. You will organize, direct, and provide technical leadership for other engineering personnel, who are responsible for establishing design, test, performance, support, quality, and physical requirements used in fuel and thermal management systems. You will mentor and coach personnel at all levels on fuel and thermal management systems matters requiring advanced levels of knowledge and expertise to address issues of considerable consequence or importance. You will ensure technical, management, and support elements of the various aircraft fuel and thermal management systems that are integrated into a quality product for fleet implementation. You will coordinate approval authority for aircraft fuel and thermal management systems specifications, standards, qualification, testing and applications. You will manage NAWCAD and contractor projects to define and develop system specification changes to improve safety, performance, capability, availability, affordability, reliability, and maintainability. You will ensure engineering requirements are consistent with CNO Vision and Command goals as well as Mission Aligned Organization (MAO) policies and guidelines. You will be responsible for the quality of engineering work, including generation of original concepts, ideas, approaches, system level trade-offs, and risk management. You will review operational, test and evaluation reports, and evaluate research findings and technical progress in related areas for their application toward developing new concepts and innovative approaches for fuel and thermal management systems.

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 pay band (DP-04) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1. Offering technical leadership for other engineering personnel who are responsible for establishing design, test, performance, support, quality, and physical requirements used in fuel and thermal management systems. 2. Providing cradle to grave support of fuel and thermal management systems, including the establishment and direction of aircraft weapon systems and research management of requirements during systems design and development, and the resolution of assigned programs. 3. Resolving novel and complex fuel and thermal systems design and operational problems where available guidance is lacking and innovation and original techniques and solutions. 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]