INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER

Full Job Description

You will serve as a Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer in the Air Vehicle Engineering Department, Aeromechanics Division of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV.

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) Serving as a senior engineer and/or technical specialist for tilt rotor and rotorcraft platforms that requires the professional knowledge of flying qualities and flight dynamics concepts, principles, and practices of aerospace engineering; (2) Interfacing with Integrated Product Team (IPT) leaders and providing necessary guidance and support to ensure successful program execution and flight dynamics standards and processes are being followed; (3) Proposing and evaluating flight dynamics studies and assessments, evaluating risk associated with schedule delays, reviewing specification compliance issues, and performance or flight dynamics anomalies to brief senior leaders on current and future trends; (4) Providing real-time fleet support on assigned programs and participating in MISHAP investigation to guide and mentor other Branch engineers during MISHAP investigations, along with ensuring fleet technical issues and requests are answered in timely fashion; and (5) Displaying technical and managerial leadership in preparing design guidance, specifications, and negotiating specification changes for all flight dynamics documentation, along with leading team members in the evaluation of design proposals submitted during formal design competitions.

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 operate as a subject matter expert or project/program manager and be responsible for program development and/or oversight of major agency level programs relating to research, development, testing, evaluation, innovation, and reengineering.
• You will hold a significant number of contributions in the form of presentations, patents, and articles that have had major impacts in the specialty area, while serving on panels and committees charged with future planning of agency resources.
• You will determine the direction of the technical work subject only to administrative review, and you will also review the work of others and provide coordination and critical insight into the progress.
• You will be responsible for major system developments or the direction of technology-based research, which has the highest significance to the agency's needs.
• You will have the authority to make or recommend tradeoffs between cost, schedule, and performance along with frequently directing the technical effort of other personnel.