About this role
Job SummaryThis announcement is for two positions in the Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) Engineering Branch supporting the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Joint Program Office. The first position is to serve as the JSF Air Vehicle PHM Engineer. The other position is to serve as the Lead JSF R&M Engineer. In either position, you will serve as a General Engineer in the Systems Engineering Department, Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Branch of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV.
QualificationsYour resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-09/11) grade level or pay band (DP-03) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: (1) Providing authoritative input and advice on all engineering and technical issues while ensuring engineering requirements are met; (2) Developing project-planning objectives for engineering development of current and long range programs; (3) Delivering optimized technical solutions that are balanced to achieve required technical performance within cost, schedule, and technology constraints; (4) Functioning as a project lead, program manager, team lead, or member of an integrated team/group providing technical guidance to a technical workforce and meeting customer requirements for products and/or services; and (5) Managing a medium scale/scope or segments of a project or program applying tools such as risk management, configuration/data management, trade-off analysis, trade studies, technical performance measurement, technical reviews, modeling & simulation, or earned value management. 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.
Major DutiesYou will apply advanced theories, concepts, principles, and processes in research and engineering, test and evaluation, and logistics functions.You will identify and solve a wide variety of complex problems with many competing objectives, variables, and constraints.You will deliver optimized technical solutions that are balanced to achieve required technical performance within cost, schedule, and technology constraints.You will formulate approaches using knowledge or related projects to resolve a variety of nonrecurring technological problems, where some work may require state-of-the-art design to take advantage of new concepts.You will provide technically sound advice and guidance to managers, supervisors, peers, and sponsors on technical aspects of systems or concept development.