General Engineer

Department of Transportation; Des Moines, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Department of Transportation seeks a Subject Matter Expert for NAS planning and requirements in the Western Service Center. The role leads highly complex NAS-related activities with minimal direction from the Requirements Manager, guiding the team and ensuring alignment with NAS priorities and policies.

Qualified candidates will have an ABET-accredited engineering degree, professional engineering licensure or FE equivalent, and documented NAS experience covering equipment, operations, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
• Courses in calculus and engineering science areas (five of seven listed) beyond first-year physics/chemistry.

Responsibilities

• Serve as SME/Lead for NAS requirements for Planning and Requirements team (Western Service Center).
• Provide leadership for highly complex activities under minimal direction of Requirements Manager.
• Demonstrate specialized NAS experience in NAS equipment, operations, and NAS priorities, plans, procedures and policies.

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering (ABET-accredited)

Professional Engineer (PE) licensure / FE equivalent

Job description

Serves as the Subject Matter Expert (SME), or Lead expert for ATO National Airspace System (NAS) requirements for the Planning and Requirements team for Western Service Center. Provides leadership for highly complex and challenging activities under the minimal direction of the Requirements Manager.

Applicants must meet the following requirements:

Degree: Professional Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must:

1. (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by (ABET);
2. (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

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. 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. 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. 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 section above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described above.
4. 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.)

In addition to meeting the basic requirement, 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 includes experience with the function and interrelationships of NAS equipment, functions and/or operations, and NAS priorities, plans, procedures and policies.

In addition, specialized experience includes comprehensive technical work on NAS systems, facilities, and equipment, including experience in the development, implementation, and oversight of programs and projects.

Applicants must include examples of specialized experience in their work history.

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

For additional information on qualification requirements, please visit the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801/