GENERAL ENGINEER

Summary You will serve as a GENERAL ENGINEER in the Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Division of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV. Responsibilities You will serve as senior technical expert and the Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Program Lead for the PMA-265 F/A-18 and EA-18G Program Office. You will provide team catalyst and leadership and be responsible for planning, resourcing, and executing an effective Reliability and Maintainability Engineering program for all PMA-265 programs. You will direct and organize the programmatic and technical activities for all integrated product teams (IPT) to ensure an effective and consistent engineering program for all IPTs across all acquisition life cycle phases. You will assign responsibilities, tasks, objectives, and projects to program members that include: civilian and military personnel who are members of fleet support teams, integrated project teams, and/or an integrated test force (ITF). You will document progress and report to competency leadership and the PMA-265 program office; and provide authoritative input and advice on technical and engineering issues regarding the application of processes and practices. You will be responsible for short- and long-range planning, guiding and implementing program activity through actively participating in the formulation of processes and policies for execution of development, flight-test, and sustainment programs. You will maintain regular liaison with Competency Management; In-Service Engineering Activities; PMA-265 IPTs, Program Management, Contracts, etc.; NAVAIR, Project Managers, Systems Engineering personnel, Project Engineers, and Defense Contractors. You will identify program budgetary requirements and participate in preparation of manpower and material resource requirement estimates to support all program activities. You will conduct continuing reviews and evaluations of the PMA-265 Reliability and Maintainability programs and their resources to ensure proper and effective resource application to ensure program success. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-12/13) 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: The incumbent must demonstrate a firm understanding of NAVAIR/NAWCAD R&M engineering processes and tools and must be able to effectively lead and manage a team comprised of Government and Contractor Support Services (CSS) R&M engineers, program analysts, and engineering technicians. As a team lead, the incumbent will be responsible for directing/managing and monitoring all R&ME work delegated and assigned across their R&M team. The R&M team lead must communicate both program and R&M Division communications, needs, etc., down through the team. The R&M team lead must effectively manage team staffing issues and conflicts with assistance from the R&M PEO(T) Branch Head and the Division Head. The incumbent must demonstrate expertise in all phases of acquisition with an emphasis on the Operations and Support phases. The incumbent will be expected to develop R&M program policies and practices in concert with R&ME competency guidance; develop, refine, and document processes; and train team personnel in those processes. The incumbent is responsible for interpreting policy independently on his/her own initiative while planning and accomplishing assignments, coordinating the work of others, and resolving conflicts among team members that may arise. The team lead is expected to help develop analytics products and faster methods of identifying readiness degrader root causes. The team lead is responsible for providing expertise to the team and training and learning opportunities to help develop personnel to more effectively support world class sustainment capabilities. The incumbent is expected to aggressively attack reliability issues and identify “shovel ready” investment opportunities with positive returns on investment to reduce flight hour operating costs. The team lead will ensure that the team uses data-driven approaches, engages with technically sound systems engineering practices, and effectively communicates risks/issues and their corresponding impacts and recommended courses of action to leadership and stakeholders. The following represent additional qualifications and knowledge areas that are desired for this position: Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS) process Common FRACAS (C-FRACAS) tool set Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) products/process Prognostics and Health Management (P&HM) and associated platform systems Boeing Top Tier, FAME and HMS Degrader Investigation tool sets Weibull Analysis Tableau Dashboards Deckplate and SQL Wide Area Workflow, EDA and other PIEE toolsets Condition Based Maintenance (CBM, CBM) Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) process/analysis Reliability Control Board (RCB) process Statistical analysis and methods Reliability growth predictions Reliability testing such as environmental stress screening (ESS), highly accelerated life testing (HALT) and highly accelerated stress screening (HASS) Familiarity with Reliasoft and Minitab software applications Non-R&M-specific desired skill-sets and knowledge areas: Excellent project management and leadership skills Understanding of systems engineering and corresponding processes/approaches to include Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Experience working in a PMA environment Previous experience with PMA-265 systems and/or systems utilized by PMA-265 platforms such as: F/A-18, E/A-18G, Tactical Jamming Systems, Tactical Radars, and Tactical Early Warning and Detection Systems. DoD acquisition experience (all lifecycle phases) Risk/issue/opportunity (RIO) management System Safety process Strong communication skills Ability to employ critical thinking Ability to effectively multi-task and manage/prioritize self/team workload Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Teams, etc.) 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. Education Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelors degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. OR Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org OR Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. OR 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 under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above) OR Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelors degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelors degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at 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. Additional Information This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program. Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments. During the application process you will have the option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions. Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation. ICTAP Applicants: To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority as an ICTAP candidate, displaced Federal employees must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a rating in the highly qualified category (score 85) or higher. ICTAP candidates must provide copies of all of the following documentation at the time of application: 1) agency notice; 2) most recent performance appraisal; and 3) most recent SF-50 or notification of personnel action that includes position, grade level, and duty location. Applicants who do not provide this documentation will not receive consideration as an ICTAP candidate. For more information about ICTAP eligibility please review the following link: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/federal-employees/career-transition/ Military Spouse Preference applicants will be placed at the highest grade for which they have applied and are determined Best Qualified (BQ). A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position.