GENERAL ENGINEER

Prescient Edge

$90K — $120K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1 year of specialized experience as a Lead Systems Engineer or Technical Domain SME.
  • Experience in developing Systems Engineering work products for program milestones and risk characterization.
  • Ability to direct integration of resources for system planning and testing.
  • Experience leading engineering and acquisition support personnel.

Responsibilities

  • Recommend operational requirements or design concepts as needed.
  • Develop project planning objectives for engineering of current and long-range programs.
  • Perform technical analyses during development phases.
  • Provide direction for Test and Evaluation Master Plan development regarding engineering requirements.
  • Assess system development test and evaluation activities and ensure resource adequacy for project execution.
  • Ensure program's technical and engineering requirements are met, including quality and safety standards.
  • Maintain contacts with R&D personnel to stay informed on new engineering developments.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including health and life insurance.
  • Access to retirement plans and savings options.
  • Opportunities for professional development and training.
  • Generous leave policies, including vacation and sick leave.
Full Job Description
Summary

This position serves as the PMA-201 Precision Strike Weapons Advanced Systems Assistant Program Manager for Systems Engineering (APMSE). You will be responsible for supporting PMA-201 strategic planning, advanced technology development, execution of existing capabilities, support for long range fires and the systems engineering efforts to start new programs. You will serve as a GENERAL ENGINEER in the AIR PLATFORM SYSTEMS ENGINEERING DIV, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING DEPT of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV.

Duties

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  • You will recommend revised operational requirements or design concepts as required.
  • You will develop project planning objectives for engineering development of current and long range programs.
  • You will perform or direct technical analyses required during the development phases.
  • You will provide direction to cognizant personnel in the planning and development of the Test and Evaluation Master Plan with regard to engineering and technical requirements and procedures.
  • You will assesse progress of system development test and evaluation activities, inventory, production, and support; to ensure adequate resources for project execution.
  • You will ensure all technical and engineering requirements of the program are met including quality assurance reliability, maintainability, system compatibility, safety engineering, etc.
  • You will maintain continuous contact with research and development personnel in order to be informed on all new engineering and scientific developments which might be applied in the design of the assigned weapon system project.


Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the DP-04 pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate some or all of the following: 1) Serving as a Lead Systems Engineer or Technical Domain Subject Matter Expert to provide authoritative engineering input and advice to program management leadership; 2) Leading the development of Systems Engineering work products to support acquisition program milestones, strategic planning, risk characterization, and decision-making on major systems; 3) Directing the integration of broad organizational resources to support engineering development, planning, and testing for assigned systems; and 4) Leading engineering, technical, acquisition, and sustainment support personnel and teams.

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.

Education

Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.

OR

Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), 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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org

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Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 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 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.

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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 under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above)

OR

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 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.

Benefits

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