Interdisciplinary EngineerScientist
Share
Job Location:
St Marys County, MD - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 101401 - 156755
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Summary
This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies through the STRL Mission Support Direct Hire Authority. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the How to Apply section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.
- You will represent the Navy as a SME working Sense and Avoid (SAA) or Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS) efforts.
- You will represent the Navy as a SME to develop and finalize SAA Minimal Operational Performance Standard (MOPS).
- You will maintain Situational Awareness of a subset of USN SAA efforts throughout the lifecycles and road-mapping SAA capabilities for the USN.
- You will support NAWCAD and Platform Customers to strategize for appropriate financial and personnel resources.
- You will serve as subject matter expert with Sense and Avoid ACASxu Systems and Due Regard Operations.
- You will represent Avionics Technical Authority for SAA and ACAS.
- You will lead the Certification efforts of SAA or ACAS Avionics Systems.
- You will provide technical design development integration qualification production and in service support of avionics systems e.g. SAA Radar TCAS Systems IFF Systems antenna systems Ground Station Interfaces Flight Management Systems etc.
- You will prepare avionics system specifications statements of work Contractor Data Deliverable Lists Engineering Change Proposals Technical Directives and other documentation technically required to execute duties.
- You will prepare innovative or novel engineering technical strategies and plans such as technical roadmaps engineering staffing and development plans and strategies to address avionics diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages.
- You will provide technical analyses in support of trade-off studies engineering investigations hardware and software architectures hardware and software compatibility avionics software and hardware modifications and related upgrades.
- You will provide subject matter expertise in support of Airworthiness processes.
- You will represent the command and our customer(s) as the technical point of contact for assigned Sense and Avoid and ACASxu Systems.
- You will be responsible for integration and validation of avionics hardware and software systems into a laboratory environment prior to aircraft integration.
Conditions of employment
- Must be a US Citizen.
- Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
- Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
- New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify including your rights and responsibilities visit
- Within the Department of Defense (DoD) the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
- Males born aftermust be registered for Selective Service.
- You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
- This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Acquisition Functional Area and category assigned to the position is required within established category timeframes.
- Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or fail the test. You will be subject to random testing.
- This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
Qualifications
Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09/11 grade level or DP-03 pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Working knowledge of collision Avoidance Systems and Transponders ground stations and Radar systems; 2) Serving as a subject matter expert responsible for leading complex development acquisition and integration of various platforms; and 3) Leading a team consisting of other subject matter experts.
Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:
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:
For 08XX Series:
A) Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable the program must: (1) lead to a bachelors degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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.
OR
B) Combination of education and experience -- college-level education training and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying 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 or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI) Engineer in Training (EIT)1 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 example an applicant who attains registration through a State Boards eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 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.
3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical mathematical and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelors 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 bachelors degree in engineering provided the applicant has had at least 1 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 related curricula are not all inclusive.)
For 1550 Series:
A) Bachelors degree in computer science;
OR
B) Bachelors degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics statistics and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus. All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions. This position serves as a Sense and Avoid Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Core Avionics Engineering Division in the Avionics Engineering Department under the Mission Systems Group of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV. Incumbent serves as a subject matter expert responsible for complex avionics systems development acquisition and integration for multiple Unmanned Naval Aviation platforms as assigned. The incumbent provides support for technical analyses analysis of alternatives Systems requirements development Risk Management Board (RMB) support sustainability industry participation in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Special Committees to develop industry standards and process management for Sense and Avoid Technology. Incumbent would need to have intermediate working knowledge of Collision Avoidance Systems and Transponders ground stations and Radar systems. Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government passionate about the ideals of our American republic and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.
Education Substitution - If you are using education to meet all or part of the qualification requirements you must submit a copy of your transcripts or an itemized list of college courses which includes equivalent information from the transcript (course title semester/quarter hours and grade/degree earned) in your resume. See OPMs General Policies for information on crediting education. Education: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the qualification requirements if the applicant can provide documentation indicating that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. It is the responsibility of the applicant to provide such evidence when applying for further information visit: information
This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program.
Several vacancies may be filled.
A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments.
Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: preference does not apply when selecting individuals under this specific hiring authority. However if you claim veterans preference you will be required to submit supporting documentation with your application as described in the Required Documents section below.
Certain incentives (such as Recruitment Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees.
A relocation incentive is generally a single payment intended to offset some of the relocation costs experienced by the selectee. A relocation incentive may be authorized.
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Immunoassays
- Machine Learning
- Biochemistry
- Assays
- Research Experience
- Spectroscopy
- Research & Development
- cGMP
- Cell Culture
- Molecular Biology
- Data Analysis Skills
