GENERAL ENGINEER

Summary

You will lead the VH-92A APMSE supporting all aspects of systems acquisition of the next Presidential Helicopter. You will be responsible for providing the Program Manager with authoritative input & advice on all engineering topics, technical issues & engineering requirements. You will serve as a General Engineer in the Systems Acquisition Group, Systems Engineering Department, Air Platform Systems Engineering Division of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV.

Duties

• You will develop, coordinate, and implement systems engineering plans and procedures, requirements analysis, system definition and integration, risk management, and other system engineering process activities.
• You will lead collaborative discussion and technical assessment of future capabilities with aircraft stakeholders, which includes the White House Military Office.
• You will ensure all technical and operational requirements are met for the development, integration, and testing of the aircraft platform across test and engineering disciplines.
• You will establish, enhance, and execute sustaining engineering to ensure zero fail mission requirements are satisfied.
• You will apply systems engineering processes to government lead developmental activities including but not limited to the Mission Communication System and Training Devices.
• You will lead preparation and execution of Systems Engineering Technical Reviews, Technical Interchange Meetings and Program Management Reviews.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-12/13) grade level or pay band (DP-04) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: (1) Developing project planning objectives for engineering development of current and long-range programs along with maintaining knowledge of current arid future capabilities, problems, and demands upon the system(s) to provide overall technical planning; (2) Directing the development of contract engineering specifications which define system requirements and parameters, as well as specifying the criteria for evaluation of engineering portions of contractor proposals; (3) Evaluating technological developments and their applicability to the assigned program and recommending appropriate technical changes throughout the design process; (4) Conducting periodic system design reviews with representatives from all agency operating groups and contractor personnel, along with ensuring all technical and engineering requirements of the program are met including quality assurance reliability, maintainability, system compatibility, and safety engineering; and (5) Managing and coordinating the technical planning, budgeting, scheduling, and evaluation aspects of proposed and authorized in-service aircraft and aircraft equipment product improvement efforts. 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 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,…