General Engineer

Federal Aviation Administration; Atlantic City, Northern (NJ, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Federal Aviation Administration located at the William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, NJ seeks engineers with strong verification and validation skills to develop test strategies, translate requirements into test plans, and oversee NAS testing across diverse environments.

The role requires ABET-accredited engineering education or equivalent plus experience in V&V and test planning. Candidates will work within the Test and Evaluation Division, V&V and Conception Visualization Branch.

Qualifications

• Requires degree in engineering with ABET-accredited program or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience applying verification and validation principles to develop test strategies.

Responsibilities

• Translate system requirements into test approaches and procedures.
• Plan, conduct, and evaluate NAS system testing across various development methods and environments.

Skills

V&V principles

Test strategy development

Requirements tracing

Education

ABET-accredited engineering program

Job description

The position is located at the William J. Hughes Technical Center for Advanced Aerospace (WJHTCAA), Test and Evaluation Division, Verification & Validation (V&V) and Conception Visualization Branch, E5A. The Branch's work focuses on V&V support, test standards development and management, and concept visualization for quality delivery of test products.

To view the complete OPM qualification standard for Engineering Series 0800, please refer to:

all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf

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)2 examination or any other written test required for professionalregistration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

To qualify for this position, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-H, FG/GS 11/12. 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 verification and validation principles to develop test strategies, translate system requirements into testapproaches, objectives and procedures, maintain requirements-to-test traceability, and plan, conduct, and evaluate testing of NAS systems across different development methods, system configurations, test environments, and deployment strategies.

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