About this role
Job SummaryYou will serve as an INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER in the HYDRAULICS & PNEUMATICS BRANCH, AIR SYSTEMS GROUP, AIR VEHICLE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, SUBSYSTEMS DIVISION of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV. This is a RE-ADVERTISEMENT of Announcement Number: ST-13054276-26-AJW. Applicants that have previously applied NEED to re-apply to this announcement. The duty location of this position is Patuxent River, MD.
QualificationsYour resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-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 technical recommendations related to Hydraulic systems for the purpose of technical improvements, qualification requirements, and operational risk mitigation; 2) Overseeing the functioning of, as well as the qualification and verification of hydraulic and/or other subsystem components; 3) Working individually or as part of a group to propose solutions to acquisitions and sustainment problems while being conscious of cost, schedule, and risks; 4) Managing competing workload priorities and effectively communicating engineering bandwidth; and 5) Demonstrating a thorough understanding of hydraulic and pneumatic concepts, components, systems, schematics, and/or engineering documentation and specifications. 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 provide risk acceptance procedures for aviation hardware to characterize and accept risk.You will use industry specifications such as SAE specs, MIL standards, and MIL-HDBK-516 requirement.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 identify, analyze, communicate, and mitigate engineering safety risks across the system life cycle.You will provide structured, safety centered responses to address technical issues without compromising minimum airworthiness requirements.You will provide a structured, repeatable approach for managing simultaneous urgent requests while protecting safety, quality, and customer commitments.You will provide a comprehensive, structured response that protects airworthiness while helping the program establish a documented, technically defensible path forward.You will develop, review, execute, approve, and/or manage functional test, maintenance, qualification, acceptance, troubleshooting, or verification procedures for aircraft hydraulic and pneumatic hardware.