Supervisory General Engineer

Federal Aviation Administration •

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Position Type: Contractor

Job Description:
As a supervisor/manager, the selectee for this position will be eligible to receive a Manager Performance Incentive (MPI) provided eligibility requirements noted in agency policy are met. The MPI is an annual lump-sum incentive payment that considers agency performance, the managers individual performance, and available funding.

Serves as a Supervisory General Engineer within the FAA Logistics Center, Products Services Group.

Duties

Reports to the Engineering Team Manager within the Product Services Group. Directs engineering resources in the electrical, mechanical, industrial engineering, civil engineering and information technology disciplines. Employees in this team provide essential services for external customers including Customs & Border Protection (CBP). Performs first level management functions including the following fields: engineering, information technology, and complex system design. Requires involvement with and access to classified materials involving Customs and Border Protection Law Enforcement systems, projects, programs, files, drawings and data.

Typically directs the work of subordinate employees at the organizational unit level. Work usually includes routine project/program tasks based on established policies, procedures and guidelines. Managerial duties affect employees in one organizational unit and include: setting priorities, assigning tasks, monitoring and evaluating performance, coaching and developing employee capabilities, approving leave and taking or recommending corrective/disciplinary action as appropriate.

Applies a comprehensive knowledge of the technical aspects of the work directed, a detailed knowledge of budget, human resources and other administrative policies and procedures and a detailed understanding of the objectives of the organizational unit. Uses state-of the-art engineering concepts related to the research, development, design, maintenance and acquisition of complex and highly integrated and advanced equipment and systems required for establishing and maintaining safe, efficient, productive, and cost effective operation of mission systems for customers. Directs the design/redesign, development, and conduct of complex independent/ interdependent engineering studies (e.g., supportability and sustainability, feasibility, life-cycle costing, efficiency, risk analysis, cost benefit, and other engineering economics studies).

Established guidelines, policies and procedures typically govern work. Resolves routine problems independently, but consults with higher-level management when existing guidelines are not available or applicable to complex problems. May be called upon to assist in the development of new policies and procedures for complex systems. Directs the application of principles and practices of engineering to routine issues or problems which must be integrated with specific geographic, environmental, defense, and security factors, as well as the operating characteristics and configurations of the systems involved. Manages the preparation of technical standards for the repair and fabrication of equipment either organically or by commercial sources.

Leads a team that is multi-disciplinary, and responsible for developing engineering approaches and methodologies for resolving routine issues related to CBP and other customers systems. Coordinates with and provides technical assistance to CBP and other customers to define basic and contingent supportability/sustainability requirements, resource requirements, priorities, funding, and system costs. Directs interdisciplinary teams to research, develop, test, acquire, and/or implement engineering solutions that impact Government requirements. Makes engineering, technical and supply support decisions that affect the policies, programs, and operations of FAA and CBP organizational elements.

Job Requirements:
Requirements Conditions of Employment

US Citizenship is required.
Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
Must submit an SF50 (See Required Documents).
This position has a positive education requirement. Transcript(s) required.
Successful completion of a security investigation may be required.
A One-Year supervisory/managerial probationary period may be required.
Please review Required Documents & Additional Information.

Qualifications

BASIC REQUIREMENTS

A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s 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.

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 Board's 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 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 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).

AND

To Qualify at the FV-J (GS/FG 14) level, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least (1) one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I (FG/GS-13) level. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.

Specialized Experience includes: analyzing and evaluating systems performance and fault information to identify causes of system failures; define; leading program/project development and implementation, including aligning program thrust with operational usage, associated; experience in performing analysis to evaluate and provide direction related to the integration of capabilities into the decision to support NAS equipment; experience with engineering concepts related to the research, development, design, maintenance and acquisition of complex and highly integrated and advanced equipment and systems; preparation of technical standards for the repair and fabrication of equipment either organically or by commercial sources; providing technical services at field sites, such as on-site equipment inspections, maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO); Providing operational expertise, performs process improvement initiatives and executes Quality Management System and l5O 900.l activities.

AND

Quality Ranking Factor (QRF): Well qualified candidates will demonstrate one of the following within their resume: Experience with electronic principles and practices, performance and design characteristics of surveillance, communications, system modeling and simulation, jamming techniques and equipment, or overall engineering principles and practices.

Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history. Qualifications must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

Education

This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcement to verify qualifications. If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment. You may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS or fax it to fax number provided in the announcement (please include announcement number on each page).

Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration.

Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Accreditation may be verified at the following website: www.ed.gov/accreditation.

Foreign education must be evaluated by a private professional organization specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials or an accredited U.S. educational institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired at an American college or university. A copy of the evaluation results must be included, otherwise your foreign education will not be considered.

Information regarding KSAs.

As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.

In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate.

Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) or Other Factors listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration.

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IMPORTANT: Applicants may be rated on the extent and quality of experience, education, and training relevant to the duties of the position(s). All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantiated. Ensure that your application package/resume supports your responses.

Required Documents

Notification of Personnel Action (SF-50) required to determine area of consideration. Supplemental documentation, e.g. transcripts or veteran's documentation, will be accepted in combination with your online application. These documents should be uploaded to your USAjobs application or emailed to 9-AMC-AHF-S210@FAA.GOV on or before the closing date of this announcement. All submitted documents should reference the announcement number.

This position has a positive education requirement; college transcripts are required for ALL candidates newly appointed to the FAA in the 0800 (Engineering) series.

College transcripts must be submitted from current FAA employees applying for internal vacancies if they have never held a position in the 0800 (Engineering) series with the FAA.

College transcripts are not required from current FAA employees who are currently occupying an 0800 (Engineering) series.

If selected, official transcripts are required prior to employment.

If you are an FAA employee, you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) containing information in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organization of record by the closing date of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line application. If faxing the SF-50, please ensure you include the vacancy announcement number on the faxed copy.

If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system https://eopf.opm.gov/dot/.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

Salary Range: $108,601 - $168,362

Job Ident #: 816824400

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