Summary

You will serve as a SUPERVISORY ELECTRONICS ENGINEER in the FST/MRO ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT of FLEET READINESS CENTER SOUTHWEST.

Duties

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• You will serve as the technical advisor and supervisor within the E-2D FST (Fleet Support Team) Avionics Team, leading the Primary (Radar), Secondary Detections (IFF) and Mission Systems sub-team
• You will negotiate, advise, and collaborate with leadership and stakeholders across Portfolio Acquisition Execution (PAE) Aviation regarding policies and procedures to determine programmatic impacts and technical requirements of engineering actions.
• You will provide strategic leadership and supervision for the Primary, Secondary Detection and Mission System team, establishing technical objectives, balancing shifting priorities, and ensuring rapid response to emergent fleet support requirements.
• You will provide strategic leadership and supervisory oversight of the E-2D classified lab, ensuring secure, compliant facility operations that sustain E-2D mission capabilities and achieve readiness goals.
• You will plan and conduct in-depth avionics engineering investigations to evaluate and investigate critical system failures and to execute rapid engineering responses to mitigate fleet risks.
• You will provide technical expertise and oversight to incorporate the latest advancements in avionics technology, establishing evaluation and testing requirements to qualify and adopt new or emerging processes.
• You will lead, coordinate, and participate in the planning, development, and execution of funding and budgetary requirements in compliance with Fleet Support Team (FST) guidelines.
• You will evaluate subordinate employee performance, provide technical guidance and mentorship, and ensure full adherence to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) policies and merit system principles.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Applying advanced engineering theories, concepts, standards, and practices in avionics engineering specifically in sustainment of Primary Detection (Radar), Secondary Detection (IFF), and Mission Systems; 2) Managing a classified lab supporting and sustaining fleet mission requirements; 3) Managing comprehensive avionics engineering projects, including establishing strategic technical direction and exercising budgetary oversight and resource allocation; 4) Utilizing extensive aircraft avionics and electrical systems knowledge to proactively identify and mitigate technical risks on weapon system programs, ensuring seamless integration and alignment across all stakeholders; and 5) Negotiating with industry partners, contractors, and organizational leadership to drive system performance enhancements, modernize avionics capabilities, and achieve operational readiness goals.

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.

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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)

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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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