INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER

Full Job Description

You will serve as either a GENERAL ENGINEER, MECHANICAL ENGINEER, ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, ELECTRONICS ENGINEER, or AEROSPACE ENGINEER in the AIR SYSTEMS GROUP (ASG), SYSTEM SAFETY AND AIR SYSTEMS INTEGRATION (SSASI) DEPARTMENT, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND INTEGRATION DIVISION, AIR VEHICLE SYSTEMS INTEGRATION BRANCH of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV SUPPORTING ASG & JPO; F-35.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or DP-04 pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Ability to develop and coordinate requirements analysis, conduct functional analysis and allocation, and synthesize data to select preferred product solutions; 2) Leading the full systems engineering lifecycle for a major aerospace platform; 3) Bridging numerous technical disciplines while applying direct knowledge of air vehicle airframes, materials, and propulsion systems to assess the impact of major engineering changes on the platform's airworthiness and operational safety; 4) Managing the complete project lifecycle within a major defense acquisition program, from developing Requests for Proposals (RFPs), to identifying and mitigating technical risks; 5) Translating high-level program requirements into actionable tasks, ensuring technical recommendations support capability, schedule, and cost targets while maximizing fleet readiness; and 6) Ability to articulate complex, high-stakes technical and programmatic information through prepared briefings and written correspondence to align senior leadership, international partners, and technical experts toward common goals, even when facing conflicting interests.

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 serve as the Air Vehicle Systems Engineer providing direct access to and coordination of the Air Vehicle engineering team and other internal and external ASG team members as required to meet mission success.
• You will provide timely and technical systems engineering sound support to Program and System Safety and Air Systems Integration (SSASI) Systems Engineers, Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), Class Desks, Joint Services, Partners, and Chief Engineers.
• You will prioritize and coordinate work within the engineering team, and other teams as required.
• You will ensure appropriate technical representation and facilitating support across the NAVAIR disciplines for the Air Vehicle Airframe and Materials engineering team.
• You will provide timely and coordinated technical, contractual, and organizational inputs and guidance to the overall program and its master schedule.
• You will support preparation of program acquisition, technical documents, and briefings related to Air Vehicle, and other technical domains within the position scope.
• You will develop Requests for Proposals (RFPs), to include modification of Statements of Work (SOWs), Specs, and other applicable engineering efforts.
• You will lead and coordinate systems technical reviews including, but not limited to the traditional System Engineering Technical Reviews (SETR) efforts.
• You will develop and coordinate requirements analysis, conduct functional analysis and allocation, conduct synthesis and select preferred product solutions.
• You will ensure the team identifies, analyzes and explains risk mitigation options in accordance with program risk management plan.
• You will review relevant technical changes and major variances to ensure proper coordination and recommend approval/disapproval of such changes with regard to established requirements, plans, scheduling and funding.
• You will ensure correct resources are provided and adjusted as stakeholders require, and lead the efforts to coordinate these resources including fiduciary resources.