AEROSPACE ENGINEER
What you'd do
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Major duties
You will lead development and sustainment efforts related to the Strategic Weapon System (SWS) and missile, with a focus on missile structures and flight sciences analyses. You will provide comprehensive oversight of prime contractor design/product assurance activities across all program lifecycle phases, development through deployment and disposal, ensuring compliance with contractual and systems engineering criteria. You will influence, lead, monitor, and approve contractor design and product quality assurance efforts in satisfying contractual requirements for various subsystems. You will monitor hardware sustainment, evaluate environmental and aging effects, oversee configuration management compliance, and direct the investigation and corrective action for discrepant or non-conforming hardware. You will implement program policy, engineering criteria, and provide information to the prime contractor and Navy field activities. You will represent the command in assigned areas of responsibility when interfacing with field activities, fleet representatives, contractors, Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), laboratories, and consultants. You will uphold technical rigor as relates to flight science disciplines, modern development approaches, and production disciplines, to include, but not limited to Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing. You will perform engineering analyses for proposed design changes, and collaborate with key stakeholders to approve/disapprove changes as the change authority
What you need to qualify
Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NH-02 (GS-11 equivalent) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: As a professional engineer providing technical oversight and direction to manage in the design, development, and implementation of aerospace programs or reentry system programs in order to devise effective solutions that solve program constraints. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
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