Aerospace Engineer

Full Job Description

The Aerospace Engineer serves as a Compliance and Airworthiness (C&A) Technical Advisor and is called upon to provide leadership for highly complex and challenging activities under the minimal direction of a manager or an executive in the Compliance & Airworthiness Division.

To view the complete OPM qualification standard for the Group Coverage Qualification Standard for General Engineer, Series 801, please refer to: General Engineering Series 0801 Basic Requirements: Degree in 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.

To qualify for this position, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-J, FG/GS 14.

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.

Specialized Experience is: Experience applying engineering principles applicable to certification and continued operational safety programs, as it relates to 14 Code of Federal Regulations parts 23, 27, and/or 29, to include experience in performing and evaluating risk analysis' following appropriate risk analysis methodologies.

Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

Interview: If the Agency decides to interview any qualified employee on the selection list, then all on the list who are qualified must be interviewed.

If the selection list is shortened to a best qualified list through a comparative process, then the best qualified list shall be considered to be the selection list. Major Duties:

Applies experience and expert knowledge of engineering principles, theories, and concepts applicable to certification, delegation, and Continued Operational Safety (COS) programs, as well as a comprehensive understanding of new technologies and methodologies, to solve complex problems.

The incumbent applies broad technical, organizational, data management and team leadership skills to lead the oversight of assigned product types.

May serve as the representative of FAA management in critical certification, delegation, and COS decision-making processes.

In doing so, advises management and staff on schedule and prioritization recommendations, independently or in accordance with guidance from management.

These duties also include helping to prioritize workload across the division and identify local resource shortfalls for management action.

Assignments require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines and require the ability to direct and coordinate the activities of AIR-700 personnel.

Typical assignments include serving as a single point of contact (POC) for the AIR-700 division on high profile safety issues which includes serving as the liaison with other AIR and AVS organizations assigned to the issue.

Supporting other C&A Technical Advisors and Program Managers (PMs) with complex and challenging issues and risk assessments and supports management in ensuring the FAA meets the certification, delegation, and COS process requirements and metrics.

The incumbent will help monitor FAA and design approval holder (DAH) performance and provide briefings to the workforce to promote adherence to established procedures and working agreements.

Leads and coordinates activities of multiple FAA personnel from multiple FAA organizations in engaging with DAHs to arrive at best practices for certification, delegation, and COS activities, enabling consistency across DAHs relative to FAA national strategic objectives.

Leads or steers major team activities associated with major working agreements with DAHs and serves as resource for development and maintenance of those agreements.

The incumbent is responsible for supporting management in overseeing the technical activities of personnel.

This includes mentoring and coaching PMs and providing policy guidance and instruction to others, both internally and externally.

Also, provides guidance to lower-level staff to solve difficult technical issues and work with management to solve technical problems.

This will require advising the engineering workforce on the application of risk and causal analyses and ensuring consistent application of risk and causal analysis.

The incumbent will also support the engineering workforce and DAHs or foreign authorities in their duties to acquire and review operational data for potential safety issues, as well as leading a team of subject matter experts to resolve complex safety, certification, or delegation issues.

Supports management in employee performance management activities, including assessment of employee technical performance, and identification of training and development needs for personnel.

As the technical expert, the incumbent is a technical process owner for the division, providing advice and guidance on the applications of policies and procedures both internally and externally.

Speaks credibly across a range of engineering disciplines, operational, and maintenance environments.

Collaborate with other C&A Technical Advisors and use advanced engineering knowledge and experience at the product level to identify fleet safety risks and trending across product types, and coordinates safety issues with other C&A Technical Advisors and PMs for potential impact on other products.