Job opening: INTERDISIPILNARY ENGINEER
Salary: $123 914 - 189 477 per year
Published at: Dec 10 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Position: This position is at DEVCOM, AvMC, Technology Development Directorate, Technical Integration Division, Engineering Design and Analysis Branch.
Current employees on Renewable Terms Appointment are eligible to apply for this position in accordance with P.L. 115-232, Section1112. Please make sure your supporting SF-50 for the Term Appointment reflects this remark and is attached.
Duties
Serve as a senior Mechanical Engineer to assure engineering products produced by the branch are
compliant with established structural, airworthiness and aircraft specific specifications and standards in
support of Army Aviation.
Provide technical direction and guidance for structural analysis, testing, and reporting to Aero/Mech
Engineers. Products include but not limited to test plans, test reports, stress analyses, formal
presentations, and design reviews.
Provide technical expertise and direction in tools/methods used to validate aerospace structures,
including Textbook Analysis, Finite Element Analysis, Dynamic Modes Analysis, Resonant
Assessment Profile Testing, and Structural Load Testing
Technical expert in airworthiness and qualification standards (FAA, MIL-STD-810 and aircraft
specific). Expert in Safety of Flight Review Board (SOFRB) and Airworthiness Release processes.
Provide input to directorate as a structural expert.
Provide technical expertise in the use of aerospace materials as applied to Army Aviation.
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- This position requires the incumbent be able to obtain and maintain a determination of eligibility for a Secret security clearance
or access for the duration of employment.
- This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 20% of the time.
- Selectee must be able to submit a OGE 450, Financial Disclosure Statement at the time of appointment and annually, thereafter.
- This position is a Testing Designated Position (TDP) subject to applicant testing and random drug testing.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.
Current Department of Army Civilian EmployeesDomestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel WorkforceInteragency Career Transition Assistance PlanLand Management Workforce Flexibility ActMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability RetirementPriority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference EligibleVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998
In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Applicants MUST provide a copy of your transcripts with your application package to be considered for the position.
A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree(or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET); OR (2) include diff erential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics andchemistry) 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 andproperties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamentalengineering 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), 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 manufacturingengineering positions.
2. Written Test - 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, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
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 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.
Some Federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required specialized experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for specialized experience is permitted. In addition to meeting specialized experience, you must also meet the basic positive education requirement for this position. Therefore, you MUST submit a transcript with your application package. Failure to do so will result in an incomplete application package.
Specialized Experience Statement:
To qualify for the DB-04, applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower pay band (DB-03) or equivalent grade level in the Federal government. Specialized experience includes performing the following: (1) Applying Department of Defense/Service specific acquisition policies on complex defense systems, (2) Executing and supporting projects within cost, performance, and schedule estimates, (3) Utilizing systems engineering principles related to the acquisition of complex defense systems, (4) Communicating technical guidance across a diverse audience, or (5) Providing technical leadership to multi-functional teams.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
Aerospace EngineeringApplies Technology to TasksLeadershipMechanical EngineeringTechnical Documentation
Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-12/14).
Education
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit:
https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Contacts
- Address FN-W1DFAA US ARMY COMBAT CAPABILITIES DEV CMD
DO NOT MAIL
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
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