You will serve as a GOVERNMENT FLIGHT REPRESENTATIVE in the T&E MANAGEMENT FOR PROGRAMS AND OPERATIONS DIVISION, GOVERNMENT FLIGHT REPRESENTATIVE BRANCH of NAVTESTWINGLANT NWCF.

Duties

You will be responsible for ensuring that contractor flight operations involving aircraft are conducted in a safe and efficient manner. You will ensure contractual obligations and procedures are adhered to, and that contractor personnel meet the appropriate Navy, DOD, and Civil Aviation qualifications and standards. You will approve contractor’s procedures for local operations ensuring appropriate practices and processes are in place to support safe and effective flight and/or maintenance operations. You will approve flights and aircrew, ensuring the purpose of the flights are contained within the scope and that standards are being followed in the planning, qualification, and execution of the flights. You will conduct periodic surveys of contractor flight and ground operations to detect adverse trends and reestablish procedural compliance with agreed upon methods. You will conduct initial review of contracts to ensure that accepted Navy, DOD, and civil aviation standards are included and adequately addressed as appropriate in order to identify areas of risk within the proposed flight program managed.

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.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Currently or formerly served as an aviation rated U.S. Military officer, or Government civilian in an aviation position; 2) Reviewing, approving, and ensuring compliance with organization flight, ground, and aviation safety procedures, policies, and instructions; 3) Reviewing aircrew qualifications and approving individual flights; 4) Knowledge of the requirements and techniques applied to flight testing of modern aircraft and associated systems; 5) Working in industrial spaces during the conduct of flight operations with exposure to hazardous noise levels, vision hazards, and other potentially unsafe situations which may sometimes occur. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series 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

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address NAVTESTWINGLANT NWCF NAVTESTWINGLANT NWCF Patuxent River, MD 20670 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]