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Safety Engineer

Missile Defense Agency

Job Location:

Redstone Arsenal, AL - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 130987 - 130987

Posted: 6 October 2026 (22 days ago)

Application Deadline: 25 January 2027

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Summary

This position is part of the Department of War (DoW) Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The incumbent will be responsible for serving as a subject matter expert with leadership responsibilities in one or more of the functional areas of system safety; component safety management and hazard mitigations; software safety; or safety requirements management and implementing project level safety programs to ensure compliance with DOW and Agency level safety guidance.

Duties

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Acq Demo Engineering and Technical Management to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

As a Safety Engineer at the NHbroadband level some of your typical work assignments may include:

Serving as a subject matter expert with leadership responsibilities in one or more of the functional areas of system safety; component safety management and hazard mitigations; software safety; or safety requirements management.
Implementing project level safety programs to ensure compliance with DOW and Agency level safety guidance. Responsible for designing safety of the products delivered to Warfighter. Identifying hazards which may impact the end user and ensuring these hazards are mitigated to the greatest extent possible and briefed to the Warfighter and MDA senior leadership.
Leading and organizing program level System Safety Working Group (SSWG) meetings to status element software development or testing activities. Attending BMDS Level SSWGs.
Ensuring system safety engineering software safety engineering and mission flight control requirements are implemented into the field integrating and evolving systems for assigned tests maintenance and operations activities.
Providing real-time system safety status to management to identify and mitigate risks. Coordinating efforts with MDA QS ranges used by MDA and OGAs (Other Government Agencies) to resolve system safety software safety and range/flight safety issues.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

Must be a U.S. Citizen
Occasional Travel
Work Schedule: Full-time
Males born aftermust be registered for Selective Service
Suitable for Federal employment determined by a background investigation
May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
Overtime: Occasionally
Tour of Duty: Maxi Flex
Recruitment Incentives: Certain incentives (such as Recruitment Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees based on agency policy and availability.
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
Financial Disclosure: Required
Telework Eligibility: This position is not telework eligible.
This position is subject to an initial drug screening and random testing thereafter. You may be required to sign a Drug Test Statement of Understanding if you are selected for this position.
This is a drug testing designated position.
Must be able to obtain/maintain a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Investigation (TS/SCI) clearance
This is an acquisition position coded Practitioner in Engineering and Technical Management. Incumbent must obtain mandatory Back-to-Basics (BtB) certification within 60 months of entry into position.
Must acquire 80 Continuous Learning Points every 24 months.

Qualifications

You may qualify at the NH-04 Broadband Level if you fulfill the following qualifications:

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-03/GS-13 grade level in the Federal service as listed below and must meet 3 of the 5 specialized experience listed below to be qualified:

Applying Mil-std-882 to determine different theories and principles of system safety engineering.
Utilizing the methods techniques and procedures relating to the propulsion systems ordnance material handling equipment pressure systems hazardous materials computer hardware and software electrical systems flight termination systems ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and safety console design to ensure operating safely.
Developing testing producing supporting and operating safely the suitability and effectiveness of a major weapon system.
Applying Mil-std-2105 for intensive and characterization of munitions testing and site planning.
Understanding the requirements methods and techniques of accident and mishap investigation and reporting.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience including volunteer experience.

In addition to meeting qualifications your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 0803 series as listed below:

Occupational Requirements Basic Requirements:

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 1For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: . 2The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information please visit: 1 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.)

NOTE: Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information visit: information

Other Notes:

ACQUISITION POSITION: This position requires Acquisition Workforce Level Practitioner in Engineering & Technical Management Certification prior to hiring is not essential but must be accomplished within 60 months after entry into this position.

RE-EMPLOYED ANNUITANT: This position DOES NOT meet criteria for re-employed annuitant. The DoD criteria for hiring Re-employed Annuitants can be found at: applicants must meet qualifications and eligibility criteria by the closing date of the announcement.

Males born aftermust be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see Who Needs to Register Selective Service System : Selective Service System ())

This position is subject to an initial drug screening and random testing thereafter. A negative drug test result must be received by HR within 30 calendar days after the EOD (i.e. start date). The selectees inability successfully pass; or refusal to conduct the test may result in: 1) the tentative or FJO being withdrawn during the recruitment process; or 2) subsequently being removed from Federal service for failure to meet a condition of employment.
You may be required to sign a Drug Test Statement of Understanding if you are selected for this position.

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.

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