You will serve as a Flight Safety Analyst (FSA) and a Missile Flight Safety Officer (MFSO) in the Range Safety Office at the PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY. Salary Range GS-12 Mechanical Engineer (0830) - $93,143 - $120,337 Computer Engineer (0854) - $98,106 - $127,533 Electronics Engineer (0855) - $98,105 - $125,299 Aerospace Engineer (0861) - $93,143 - $120,337 Physicist (1310) - $90,662 - $117,856 GS-13 All Interdisciplinary Series - $107,809 - $140,155

Duties

You will execute in-flight safety control of target and interceptor missiles. You will conduct pre-operational checks of missile command destruct systems and oversees flight simulations and countdown procedures to ensure that support instrumentation is operative. You will assume sole control of missile flight to contain it within missile hazard boundaries and may control multiple missile flights simultaneously. You will conduct range safety analyses and evaluations, develop safety policies and procedures, and recommend range safety approval prior to missile firing projects being scheduled and tested. You will conduct comprehensive reviews of project test plans and procedures to determine range hazards. You will review technical documentation of programs to ensure a comprehensive, systematic safety solution commensurate with basic range safety philosophy. You will direct analytical studies of systems and system concepts. You will analyze flight vehicles’ physical and performance capabilities. You will perform complex computations and studies to determine feasibility of limiting conditions of launch operations or to enable recommendations of PMRF’s safety policies as defined by the national Range Commanders Council. You will evaluate vehicle aerodynamics, control, propulsive, homing characteristics and failure modes. You will conduct, coordinate, and direct technical efforts in safety studies or analysis efforts concerning projects being considered for testing at PMRF. You will initiate and direct research to determine specifications for safety criteria and techniques to be employed in the preparation of safety plans for all test programs.

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.
• MSP/PPP applicants must currently hold the required security clearance.
• 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

For the GS-13: 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: professional engineering or physics experience utilizing knowledge of aerodynamics, flight mechanics, probability, and statistics relative to missile flight safety testing (e.g., missile failure modeling, missile breakup, risk analysis) to analyze range processes and safety requirements and ensure test and evaluation range operations are conducted safely.Must have experience with flight safety, flight termination systems, or range instrumentation that support range safety operations. For the GS-12: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: professional engineering or physics experience utilizing knowledge of aerodynamics, flight mechanics, probability, or statistics relative to missile flight safety testing (e.g., missile failure modeling, missile breakup, risk analysis) to analyze range processes and safety requirements to ensure test and evaluation range operations are conducted safely. 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 1310 IOR: Physics Series 1310 (opm.gov) 08XX IOR: all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf (opm.gov) 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.

For the Physics Series

Bachelor's Degree: physics; or related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics.

OR

Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in physics totaling at least 24 semester hours, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

In either of the above, the courses must have included a fundamental course in general physics and, in addition, courses in any two of the following: electricity and magnetism, heat, light, mechanics, modern physics, and sound.

Contacts

• Address PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY Bldg 105 PMRF Kekaha, HI 96752 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]