Aerospace Engineer-Aircraft Performance (Direct Hire)

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Lakewood (CA)

Hybrid

USD 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

4 hours ago

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Job summary

All Aviation Jobs seeks an Aerospace Engineer specializing in aircraft performance and handling qualities within Aircraft Certification. The role plans and executes highly complex projects with minimal supervision, solving technical issues and developing improved airworthiness guidance.

The incumbent will contribute across functional lines, develop standards, and communicate policy to internal teams and external partners, ensuring compliant and innovative solutions.

Qualifications

Degree in Engineering with ABET accreditation or equivalent.
Proven ability to apply engineering concepts to aircraft performance and handling qualities.
Demonstrated understanding of airworthiness standards and FAA guidance.

Responsibilities

Develop airworthiness standards and advisory material for aircraft performance and handling qualities.
Provide policy, guidance and instruction to internal and external stakeholders.
Collaborate across organizational lines to solve complex technical problems.
Address safety recommendations and implement new technologies and methodologies.

Skills

Aircraft performance

Handling qualities

Engineering principles

Problem solving

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Job description

Summary

Serves as an Aerospace Engineer specializing in aircraft performance and handling qualities within Aircraft Certification. The Aerospace Engineer will plan and accomplish 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.

This job is open to

The public

U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.

Veterans

Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces or a spouse, widow, widower or parent of a veteran, who may be eligible for derived preference

Military spouses

Military spouses of active duty service members or whose spouse is 100 percent disabled or died on active duty.

Individuals With Disabilities

Individuals who are eligible under Schedule A.

Peace Corps & AmeriCorps Vista

Individuals who have served at least 2 years with the Peace Corps or 1 year with AmeriCorps VISTA.

Special authorities

Individuals eligible under a special authority not listed in another hiring path.

Clarification from the agency

Open to all US Citizens

Duties

The incumbent will apply experience and comprehensive knowledge of engineering principles, theories, and concepts applicable to aircraft performance and handling qualities to solve complex problems and improve airworthiness standards and guidance, as well as an understanding of new technologies and methodologies, to solve complex problems and to develop improved technical processes for the organization. Considers the objectives of the major subdivision and LOB/SO when developing, integrating and implementing solutions to diverse, complex problems. Assignments frequently require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines.

The Aerospace Engineer will develop airworthiness standards and related advisory and guidance material on aircraft performance and handling qualities for the type certification of aircraft. Ensure standardized application of the FAA airworthiness requirements worldwide. Provide policy, guidance and instruction to others, internally and externally, resolving most technical issues without the intervention of management.

The incumbent develops strategies, implementation plans and responses to safety recommendations from the National Transportation Safety Board as well as from individuals or organizations within the FAA and considers the objectives of the Aircraft Certification Service and the FAA when developing, integrating and implementing solutions to technical issues. Communicates to all levels within the Aircraft Certification Service, and to counterparts in other lines of business such as the Flight Standards Service, the Office of Environment & Energy, and the public.

Contacts are internal and external. Represents the FAA as a technical specialist on projects, programs and other work activities. Proposes, defines and oversees research associated with new or novel designs or technologies.

Broad policies and objectives provide general guidance for addressing issues but allow considerable discretion to develop new and innovative approaches. Draws on experience to solve unusual problems and may create new solutions and policy interpretations as the situation requires.

Provides guidance to lower-level staff to solve difficult technical issues. Resolves all but unique technical problems without the intervention of management or a more experienced engineer.

Work is rarely reviewed, typically through status reports and at project completion, to ensure technical compliance and alignment with the requirements of the project or other work activity. The work activities impact directly on the objectives of one or more major subdivisions and/or LOB/SOs and may impact on the objectives of the FAA. The work may affect the safety and security of customers.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

US Citizenship is required.
Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
This position has a positive education requirement. Transcript(s) required.

Qualifications

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-I, FG/GS 13. 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 concepts, principles and practices to address aircraft performance and handling qualities issues.

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 li ... Selection may be made from this announcement or from ACT-AVS-26-AIR-99613.

Education

This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcement to verify qualifications. If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment. You may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS or fax it to fax number provided in the announcement (please include announcement number on each page).

Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration.

Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Accreditation may be verified at the following website: www.ed.gov/accreditation.

Foreign education must be evaluated by a private professional organization specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials or an accredited U.S. educational institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired at an American college or university. A copy of the evaluation results must be included, otherwise your foreign education will not be considered.

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Additional Information

We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions.

Position may be subject to a background investigation.

A one-year probationary period may be required.

The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days of entry on duty. FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviation-related companies. www.faa.gov/jobs/workinghere/financial-disclosure-requirements

Applications will be accepted from any U.S. citizen. On-the-Spot will be used to fill this position. The 'Rule of Three', Veterans Preference and traditional rating and ranking of applicants does not apply to this vacancy.

You may also be considered for this vacancy based on eligibility under the 30% or More Disabled Veteran Program, Veterans' Recruitment Appointment, and Persons with Disabilities/Persons with Targeted Disabilities. To be considered for one of these special hiring authorities, you must identify your eligibility in your questionnaire in the Applicant-Preferred Conditions of Employment section. In addition, you must submit documentation that provides evidence of eligibility as indicated in the Required Documents section of the announcement.

As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.

In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate.

Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the KSAs listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in alphabetical order and referred to the selecting official for consideration.

Please ensure you answer all questions and follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may impact your rating or may result in you not being considered for the job.

Applicants may be asked to verify information on your application for employment with the FAA.

This announcement will be used to make selections throughout the AIR organization.

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How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

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Agency contact information

Tara Price
Phone 1 (609) 485-4669
Fax 1 (609) 485-8995
Email tara.price@faa.gov
Address Federal Aviation Administration
ACT Regional HR Services Branch
Atlantic City International Airport, Bldg. 300
AHF-N710
Atlantic City, NJ 08405
US

Next steps

Once we receive your complete application, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluation of your qualifications. Eligible and qualified candidates will be referred to the hiring manager for consideration. You will be contacted directly if selected for an interview.

All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of political affiliation, race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Information section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodation request. Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case‑by‑case basis. Additional information on reasonable accommodations procedures or on EEO Programs is available on Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office.

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