Electronics Engineer

United-States-Department-of-Defens; Alabama; Presencial; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) seeks a senior engineer to serve as a technical authority on electrical, electronic, and electro-mechanical parts, assemblies, and materials. You will lead reliability and mission assurance efforts across PMP-related decisions and supplier assessments.

Ideal candidates have an engineering degree (ABET-accredited) with professional licensure or FE/related credentials, and substantial experience in EEE reliability and program policy support.

Formación

• Degree in engineering from an ABET-accredited program or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Professional registration as EI/EIT or PE, or other licensure by a state licensure board.
• FE examination or equivalent written test for professional engineering.
• 60 semester hours of physical, mathematical and engineering sciences with specified courses.
• Related curricula may be accepted if accompanied by substantial professional engineering experience.

Responsabilidades

• Serve as the subject matter expert and senior engineer with technical authority on electronic parts, components, assemblies, materials, and processes.
• Provide PMP policy and issues guidance to ensure reliability, mission assurance, and service life.
• Conduct PMP supplier, technical, or mission assurance assessments and propose resolutions for identified risks.
• Advise on procedures to minimize counterfeit electrical, electronic, and electro-mechanical (EEE) parts risks and containment.
• Apply standard engineering practices to ensure compliance with MDA policies and procedures.

Conocimientos

PMP analysis

Supplier assessments

Counterfeit EEE testing

Mission assurance

EEE reliability

Educación

Engineering degree

ABET-accredited program

EI/EIT/PE licensure

FE exam

Related curriculum

Descripción del empleo

This position is part of the Department of War (DoW), Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The incumbent will be responsible for serving as the subject matter expert and senior engineer with technical authority regarding electronic parts, components, assemblies, materials, and processes.

You may qualify at the NH-04 Broadband Level, if you fulfill the following qualifications:

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-03/GS-13 grade level in the Federal service as listed below and must meet 3 of the 5 specialized experience listed below to be qualified:

• Defending parts, materials, and process (PMP)-related positions and decisions by analyzing complex technical data in conjunction with programmatic information.
• Conducting PMP supplier, technical, or mission assurance assessments, identifying issues, concerns, and risks, and proposing resolutions.
• Understanding the procedures and authenticity test methods used to minimize the risk of procuring counterfeit electrical, electronic, and electro-mechanical (EEE) parts and materials, including prevention, detection, and containment.
• Serving as a technical consultant on PMP policy and issues affecting program reliability, mission assurance, and service life, ensuring that functions and operations are performed uniformly, economically and in accordance with MDA and other applicable policies and procedures.
• Experience in EEE reliability and EEE part application analyses, identifying failures, writing screening and qualification test plans, and determining potential technical solutions of EEE components.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 0855, series as listed below: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf

Individual Occupational Requirements Basic Requirements:

A. Degree: 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.

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 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 an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, 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 example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.

2. Written Test

Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional. For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org. 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. Registration by an engineering licensure board 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 that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.

4. Related curriculum

Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's 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 bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.)

NOTE: Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.