AEROSPACE ENGINEER

Full Job Description

You will serve as an AEROSPACE ENGINEER in the MQ-25 FST ENGINEERING DIVISION of FLEET READINESS CENTER SOUTHWEST.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Exhibiting a thorough understanding of Air Vehicle (AV) in-service fleet support and/or Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) related to reliability centered maintenance (RCM); 2) Providing AV RCM engineering guidance to others; 3) Analyzing AV RCM related issues; and 4) Drafting RCM engineering technical products.

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 Duties:

• You will coordinate the technical research of complex air vehicle engineering issues (e.g. solving uncommanded pitch inputs from unknown sources, or coordinating technical aspects of service life extension efforts).
• You will plan and conduct engineering investigations individually, as a member of a team or as team leader, depending on the complexity of the project.
• You will identify, plan, and evaluate corrective action for air vehicle deficiencies of significant proportions to improve reliability, maintainability, survivability, interchangeability, safety, accuracy and economy.
• You will conduct engineering analyses and investigations to support in-service engineering including repair, overhaul, modification, operation, maintenance, manufacture and to improve reliability and maintainability.
• You will solve air vehicle engineering problems that require modification or adaptation of standard guides, procedures, methods and techniques which require special consideration of in-service engineering planning, scheduling, and coordination.