STRATEGIC SYSTEMS PROGRAMS (SSP)
CPS SENIOR HYPERSONICS RESIDENT ENGINEER
Department of the Navy · Huntsville, Alabama
- Salary
- $130,987 - $197,200 per year
- Pay grade
- NH-4
- Schedule
- Full-time
- Appointment
- Permanent
- Opened
- Oct 23, 2026
- Closes
- Nov 5, 2026
- Remote
- No
- Telework eligible
- Yes
- Openings
- 1
- Security clearance
- Top Secret
- Promotion potential
- None
- Announcement
- DE-13099370-27-NN
Who may apply: Open to the public
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Summary
This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.
Duties
- You will serve as the senior onsite technical authority and interdisciplinary professional engineer at the production facility, leading government technical oversight of weapon systems and major end items.
- You will govern the engineering baseline for weapon systems, verify contractor adherence to technical data packages, and enforce technical policies across engineering drawings and specifications.
- You will evaluate complex anomalies and unprecedented production issues, using delegated engineering authority to approve or reject waivers, deviations, and nonconforming hardware dispositions.
- You will evaluate manufacturing efficiencies and oversee supply chain technical performance, including lower-tier suppliers, to resolve critical failures and recommend actions that strengthen the industrial base.
- You will evaluate contractor proposals and engineering change proposals, providing technical recommendations to the program office on labor hours, materials, and production impacts.
- You will oversee hardware configuration audits, initial production inspections, and acceptance reviews to verify prototype and production hardware meets engineering specifications before government acceptance.
Qualifications
In addition to the basic education requirement your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or NH-03 pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate performing advanced engineering analysis, production oversight, or technical baseline management to independently evaluate, test, manage, or deliver hardware or technical capabilities. 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/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf and https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Group-Standards 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: 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 pr…
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