GENERAL ENGINEER
What you'd do
You will serve as a Combat Survivability Engineer in support of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office (JPO) leading the development and support of system survivability technologies for the fifth-generation joint strike fighter (JSF) for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, international partners and foreign military sales customers. You will be a General Engineer in the Systems Engineering Department, Combat Survivability Division of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV.
Major duties
You will provide support as needed to the F-35 Mission Effectiveness Team. You will coordinate with other agency platforms to ensure alignment and sharing of lessons learned and technologies across the joint force. You will provide radio frequency and infrared survivability data and expertise to outside organizations such as tactics developers and modeling and simulation organizations. You will plan and coordinate test and simulation events along with managing technical projects to improve the mission performance of the F-35.
What you need to qualify
Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-09/11) grade level or pay band (DP-03) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: (1) Developing flight and chamber test objectives while planning and coordinating test and simulation events; (2) Managing technical projects to improve mission performance and maintaining up-to-date knowledge of adversary threat capabilities and their effects on aircraft; (3) Coordinating with Science and Technology (S&T) development offices to ensure aircraft requirements are communicated correctly and assisting in transfer of technology onto the aircraft; (4) Working with radio frequency and infrared countermeasure development organizations across federal agencies to improve survivability and mission effectiveness; and (5) Providing radio frequency and infrared survivability data and expertise to outside organizations such as tactics developers and modeling & simulation organizations. 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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