Description:
Serves as a General Engineer within one of the multiple National Airway Systems Engineering (NASE) sub-teams providing advanced engineering expertise in support of one or more NAS systems. Plans and accomplishes highly complex and challenging projects/programs and other work activities under the minimal direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced engineer.
Requirements:
BASIC REQUIREMENTS:
(A) Degree: Professional Engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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 & 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.
OR
(B) Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying professional engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
1) Professional registration or licensure - Current registration as a professional engineer by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
2) Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for the professional registration which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
3) Specified Academic Courses - Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph A above.
4) Related Curriculum - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had a least one year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g. in interdisciplinary positions. (Above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)
IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE BASIC REQUIREMENTS:
To qualify at the FV-J (FG/GS 14) level, you must demonstrate in your application you possess one (1) year of Specialized Experience equivalent to the FV-I (FG/GS 13) level. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position to be filled.
Specialized Experience includes: experience utilizing engineering principles, theories, and concepts in providing operations & maintenance support for one or more National Airway Systems (NAS); designing and implementation of system-wide hardware and/or software/firmware modifications; experience developing and issuance of associated national technical directives and maintenance guidance; development and evaluation of the operational readiness and/or supportability of new NAS systems for deployment; and technical support to new system acquisition efforts; analyzing system performance and fault information from field facilities to identify causes of system failures, defines and takes correction action; reviewing work of assigned personnel on exceptionally complex projects for technical accuracy and adequacy.
Applicants should provide examples of Specialized Experience in their work history. Qualifications must be met by the closing date of the announcement.
In addition to the above qualifications , the following has been determined to be a Quality Ranking Factor (QRF). This means applicants who possess this factor are considered to be Well-Qualified.
Quality Ranking Factor (QRF) : Well-qualified candidates will demonstrate knowledge involving design characteristics, construction practices, and/or operational/maintenance support on a national level for National Aerospace System (NAS) green, standby, and/or critical power or monitoring systems, and must demonstrate having experience in three of the following subject areas: Electrical Safety, Breaker Coordination, Arc Flash studies, National Electric Code (NEC) compliance, Switchgear (GE or SqD), Engine Generators, Automatic/Static Transfer Switches, Batteries, Uninterruptable Power Systems (UPS), fuel cells, Photovoltaic (PV/solar), Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC’s) and/or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.