Information regarding opportunities, how to submit your resume and your contact information is located on the Air Force Civilian Careers site. In this position the overall responsibility is for the Test and System Safety (T&SS) Programs. The position formulates Test and System Safety policy and has direct interaction with T&SS offices. Incumbent develops training and performs quality control assessments of the T&SS processes. Serve as an Independent Safety Reviewer for T&SS reviews & projects.

Duties

For additional information on direct hire opportunities with the Air Force please click here. Serve as a general engineering professional within Test Safety and both the Wing and Installation level across diverse engineering disciplines to include aerospace/propulsion engineering, electrical/electronic engineering, material engineering, mechanical engineering, and system engineering. Serve as a general engineering professional within System Safety at both the Wing and Installation level across diverse engineering disciplines to include aerospace/propulsion engineering, electrical/electronic engineering, material engineering, mechanical engineering, and system engineering. Leads Safety Reviews. Serve as a Subject Matter Expert advising the Contracting Offiecer Representative responsible for evaluating contrator performance on execution of Test and System Safety programs using metrics, inspections, and surveillance.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Obtain and maintain Security clearance
• A professional engineering degree at the bachelor’s level from an ABET accredited institution in Engineering or a closely related field is required (master’s desired).
• This position has been designated as a Non-Critical Acquisition Position and is covered by the Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP).
• This position requires the ability to access and visually assess areas in the Arnold AFB industrial environment that may only be accessed via ladders, stairs, catwalks, etc.
• This position requires temporary duty travel to Geographically Separated Units which have industrial environments similar to that at Arnold AFB.
• Work may include long periods of standing/walking.
• Any significant medical threshold shifts in health status and/or medication requirements must be immediately reported to the supervisor
• Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): Approximately 20 days 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 Professional and Engineering Positions located here SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower broadband NH-02 or equivalent to the next lower grade GS-11 in the Federal Service. Specialized experiences include managing, planning, organizing, evaluating, directing and coordinating the Test Safety program and functions as a Test Safety function expert and authority. Develop/Revise System and Test Safety process and advise senior staff on System and Test issues. Develop and publish detailed instructions for conducting the System Safety and Test programs and train personnel responsible for executing the System Safety and Test programs. Experience as an Investigative Officer to conduct formal mishap investigation and prepare/deliver written/oral formal safety investigation reports when directed by the convening authority. PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week. VOLUNTEER WORK EXPERIENCE: Refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (i.e., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student and social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge and skills that can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Expert knowledge of advanced concepts, principles, and techniques of test planning and execution process tenets to Test Safety Program elements across diverse engineering disciplines. Expert knowledge of advanced concepts, principles, and techniques of system engineering, to include systems integration and system safety engineering. In-depth knowledge of aerospace testing, i.e., aerodynamic, propulsion and flight characteristics; data analysis/evaluation, modeling and simulation, technical report preparation, and administrative aspects of test programs. Ability to plan and organize work and coordinate with other engineering, test, and safety disciplines. Ability to research, analyze, interpret, and apply rules, regulations and procedures to a variety of situations and to recommend timely and economical solutions. Ability to maintain good working relations with multiple disciplines and levels of engineering and management and to provide technical guidance and project management oversight. Ability to communicate effectively with a broad range of personnel both orally and in writing and using modern computer hardware and software applications in support of communications and presentations, i.e., the SRB and training. Knowledge of standard training techniques, methods, and materials sufficient to prepare and present formal training and instructional sessions. Position specific skills and experience desired in a potential candidate: Experience in the application of Systems Engineering principles to Baseline Hazard Analyses for ground test facilities. Experience with the generation of Test Hazard Analyses for test peculiar hazards associated with wind tunnel, engine test cells, environmental chambers, directed energy, radar, and sled track testing. Knowledge/experience applying safety processes/procedures supporting effective operational/test execution. Experience in team collaborations providing team guidance and leadership. Mishap investigation experience is desired.

Education

Basic Requirements:

A. 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)2 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.

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 all inclusive.)

Contacts

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