GENERAL ENGINEER
What you'd do
You will serve as a GENERAL ENGINEER in the NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV.
Major duties
You will develop and review program technical and mission documentation, providing authoritative input and advice on all engineering and technical issues and ensuring engineering requirements are met. You will participate in the development and design of new systems by assessing if available or imminent technology is sufficient to meet requirements or system concepts are applicable to fleet operational requirements. You will recommend revised operational requirements or design concepts as required. You will formulate engineering design concepts and performance requirements which provide the basis for overall technical and engineering planning for the assigned system. You will maintain knowledge of current arid future capabilities, problems and demands upon the system (s) and provides overall technical planning for development, engineering, and evaluation of programs. You will develop all engineering portions of Procurement Requests, Requests for Proposal, Requests for Quotations, etc.
What you need to qualify
Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the DP-05 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Specialized experience includes demonstrated experience serving as a Lead Systems Engineer or as a Lead Technical Domain Subject Matter Expert for assigned systems providing authoritative systems engineering or senior-level engineering technical domain input and advice to systems engineering and to the program management leadership; Leads the development and incorporation of Systems Engineering work products or technical domain work products required to satisfy, complement and inform the DoW System Acquisition program management process milestones, artifacts, strategic planning, risk characterization and decision making on major weapon systems; Leads or significantly master the incorporation and use of the various and broad NAWCAD resources to support engineering development, planning and testing for assigned systems; Leads engineering, technical, acquisition, and sustainment support personnel and teams.. Examples of: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROBLEM SOLVING WRITTEN COMMUNICATION ORAL COMMUNICATION 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/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series AND 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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