Electronics Engineer

Federal Aviation Administration; Atlantic City (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Federal Aviation Administration seeks an electronics engineer to lead engineering efforts within the NAS Enterprise Weather & Aeronautical Information Systems Team AJW-1710. You will guide technical teams, oversee system modifications, integrations, and service restorations to maintain NAS reliability.

You will analyze complex problems, coordinate with stakeholders across divisions, and allocate resources to deliver on-time, within-budget solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent
• ABET-accredited program preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience with professional registration or FE/other licensure

Responsibilities

• Lead technical teams and manage complex projects for NAS systems and related infrastructure.
• Act as project lead for system modifications, system integration, problem analysis, and restoration of services.
• Provide technical guidance to personnel and coordinate across organizational lines.
• Assist management in optimal resource allocation and stakeholder communication.

Job description

This position serves as electronics engineer and engineering lead within a NAS Enterprise Weather & Aeronautical Information Systems Team, AJW-1710, providing advanced expertise in support of NAS systems. The role involves guiding technical teams and managing complex projects focused on system modifications, integration, problem analysis, and service restoration.

To view the complete OPM Qualification standard for the Group Coverage Standard for Engineer Series 0801, please refer to:

all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf

Basic Requirement:

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)2 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. 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.)

To qualify for this position at the J-band, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the 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 includes:Experience leading technical teams and managing complex projects for NAS systems, specifically acting as a project lead for system modifications, system integration, problem analysis, and the restorations of services. Demonstrated ability to provide technical guidance to personnel, manage stakeholder communication across organizational lines, and assist management in optimal resource allocation.

Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their Work History.

Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.