General Engineer

U.S. Department of Defense; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Department of Defense in Huntsville, AL is seeking an Engineering professional under the Acquisition Workforce Demonstration Project (AcqDemo). The role requires one year of specialized experience at the 03/GS-13 level and 3 of 5 listed competencies, related to missile defense systems engineering, testing, and configuration management.

ABET-accredited education or equivalent combination is required. Applicants must demonstrate knowledge across engineering fundamentals and be prepared to

Qualifications

• One year of specialized experience equivalent to the 03/GS 13 grade level; must meet 3 of 5 listed experiences.
• Experience with missile defense systems engineering and testing.
• Experience in large-scale product engineering including design, test, qualification, and fielding of hardware for military applications.
• Experience with configuration management processes, standards and best practices.
• Experience with risk, failure investigation and root cause corrective action per MDA guidance.
• Experience with qualification/acceptance testing standards and best practices.
• Failure to provide transcripts will render an applicant ineligible for this position.

Skills

Missile defense systems engineering

Large-scale product engineering

Configuration management

Root-ccause analysis & RCF

Education

ABET-accredited engineering curriculum OR equivalent

Job description

The position(s) covered by this vacancy announcement is in the Department of Defense (DoD) Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo). For more information please see: ACQDEMO

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

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

• Experience managing the application of leading edge technology and engineering processes required to develop effective missile defense systems.
• Experience in large scale Product Engineering to include design, test, qualification, and fielding of hardware for military applications.
• Experience with Configuration Management Processes, Standards and Best Practices.
• Experience executing Risk, Failure Investigation, and Root Cause Corrective Action processes, best practices and associated MDA guidance.
• Experience with Qualification/Acceptance Testing standards/best practices.

In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 0801 series.

This position has a Basic Requirement for the 0801 series: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf

Degree: Engineering

To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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 and I have included my transcripts with my application.

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), 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.)

NOTE: Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position.