Electronics Engineer
What you'd do
Position is an Electronics Engineer (Specialist) within the Operations Engineering Support Group, Support Center A. The mission includes operational support of the National Airspace System (NAS).
Major duties
Serves as an Operations Engineering Specialist in Operations Engineering Support Group, Support Center A, whose mission includes operational support of the National Airspace System (NAS). Incumbent is responsible for providing engineering support for operations and maintenance and the establishment/upgrade of facilities and systems in the NAS. Incumbent plans and accomplishes highly complex and challenging projects/programs and other work activities under the minimal direction of a manager or higher-level professional. This is an engineering position, requiring application of professional knowledge, practices, principles, theories, concepts, techniques and abilities for the electronic engineering discipline. Dealing in particular with engineering analysis for Instrument Landing Systems (ILS). As a primary technical advisor within their specialty area, incumbent may represent Technical Operations at various service and national level meetings on these matters. Acts as a team lead to provide expertise and advice to solve complex technical problems relating to the operation, design or implementation of ILS and associated Terminal Navigation Landing Systems (TNLS) equipment and services. Provides engineering advice and proactive assistance required to resolve difficult and complex problems relating to ILS. Briefs management, peers, lines of business (LOBs) and industry experts on the impacts and benefits of design system solutions. Performs detailed obstruction evaluations (OEs) for analysis of airspace matters on affected NAS facilities. Acts as the Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR) for Continuity of Service (Cos) program. Demonstrates expertise and leadership in ILS program matters. Contacts are internal and external. Often represents FAA as a senior technical point of contact on projects, programs and other work activities. Communicates results to all levels internally (within an LOB/SO or across LOB's/SO's) and externally. Coordinates significant technical matters with representatives of external organizations. Broad policies and objectives provide general guidance for addressing issues but allow considerable discretion to develop new and innovative approaches. Draws on experience to solve unusual problems and may create new solutions and policy interpretations as the situation requires. Provides policy guidance and instruction to others, both internally and externally. Provides guidance to lower-level staff to solve difficult technical issues. Resolves all but unique technical problems without the intervention of management or a more experienced engineer. Develops plans, techniques, and policies to address current or anticipated problems and issues. Works with senior management to solve problems. Work is reviewed rarely, typically though status reports and at project completion, to ensure technical compliance and alignment with the requirements of the project or other work activity. Work activities typically impact directly on the objectives of one or more major subdivisions and/or LOB's/SO's and may impact on the objectives of the FAA.
What you need to qualify
OPMs, Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) for professional engineering positions in conjunction with the Group Qualification Standard for Professional & Scientific Positions. (A) Degree: Professional Engineering. To be acceptable, 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 & 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 & 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 & Experience - College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical & mathematical sciences underlying professional 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 - Current registration as a professional engineer by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. 2) Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for the professional registration which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners 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 in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph ¿A¿ above. 4) Related Curriculum - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least one 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 curricula are not all-inclusive). IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE BASIC REQUIREMENT: To qualify for this position at the FV-J level, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the 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 is: Experience directly related to engineering design, system performance, optimization, and installation experience with NAS Terminal Navigation facilities. Experience collecting and analyzing Flight Inspection data; performing engineering testing, adapting local solutions, and recommending modifications to the design or operation of Instrument Landing Systems (ILS), ancillary/support equipment, or processes. Experience directly relating to expert leadership level skills to support complex multi-platform electric engineering project/restoration support work on several different ILS models such as: Single and Dual MARK-1F, MARK-20/20A, ILS-420, ASII/SELEX and ILS equipment types such as Null Reference, Sideband Reference, Capture Effect, and End Fire Glideslope, V-Ring and LPDA Localizer antenna types. Experience developing tools, test procedures and training courses related to Terminal Navigation and Obstruction Evaluation. Applicants should provide examples of Specialized Experience in their Work History. Qualifications must be met by the closing date of the announcement.
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