Supervisory Aerospace Engineer

Air Force Safety Center; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Force Safety Center in Albuquerque, NM seeks a first-level supervisor to plan, direct, organize, and exercise control over engineers in the Engineering Branch, Aviation Safety Division.

You will supervise professional staff across aircrew systems, propulsion, avionics, and structures, and prepare concise analytical reports and studies for leadership.

Qualifications

• One year of specialized experience at the GS-14 level or equivalent.
• Experience supervising professional engineering positions across aircrew/pilot flight equipment, propulsion, mechanical and fluid systems, electronic/avionics systems, and structures.
• Ability to prepare timely and concise analytical reports addressing technical issues.
• Ability to conceive, plan, and conduct special studies/evaluations of laboratories' capabilities and limitations.

Responsibilities

• Supervise professional engineering positions spanning aircrew/pilot flight equipment, egress systems, propulsion systems, mechanical and fluid systems, electronic and avionics systems, and structures.
• Plan, direct, organize, and exercise control over nonsupervisory employees in the Engineering Branch, Aviation Safety Division.
• Prepare timely and concise analytical reports that address technical issues and convey complex details clearly.

Education

Engineering degree (ABET-accredited) or equivalent

Job description

The primary purpose of this position is: to serve as a first level supervisor, providing planning, directing, organizing, and exercising control over nonsupervisory employees assigned to the Engineering Branch, Aviation Safety Division, Air Force Safety Center.

In order to qualify, you must meet the basic requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, Professional and Scientific Positions

BASIC REQUIREMENT OR INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL 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.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:

Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-14, or equivalent in other pay systems. Examples of specialized experience includes supervising professional engineering positions spanning aircrew/pilot flight equipment, egress systems, propulsion systems, mechanical and fluid systems, electronic and avionics systems, and structures. Preparing timely and concise analytical reports that thoroughly and correctly address all pertinent technical issues, while conveying complex technical details in a manner that is readily understood by intended audiences. Conceives, plans, and conducts special studies and evaluations of various Air Force, other military services', and DOD scientific and engineering laboratories' capabilities and limitations to perform associated failure modes and effects analyses. Researches and determines or recommen