GENERAL ENGINEER

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-12/13) grade level or (DP-04) pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: The incumbent must demonstrate a firm understanding of NAVAIR/NAWCAD R&M engineering processes and tools and must be able to effectively lead and manage a team comprised of Government and Contractor Support Services (CSS) R&M engineers, program analysts, and engineering technicians. As a team lead, the incumbent will be responsible for directing/managing and monitoring all R&ME work delegated and assigned across their R&M team. The R&M team lead must communicate both program and R&M Division communications, needs, etc., down through the team. The R&M team lead must effectively manage team staffing issues and conflicts with assistance from the R&M PEO(T) Branch Head and the Division Head. The incumbent must demonstrate expertise in all phases of acquisition with an emphasis on the Operations and Support phases. The incumbent will be expected to develop R&M program policies and practices in concert with R&ME competency guidance; develop, refine, and document processes; and train team personnel in those processes. The incumbent is responsible for interpreting policy independently on his/her own initiative while planning and accomplishing assignments, coordinating the work of others, and resolving conflicts among team members that may arise. The team lead is expected to help develop analytics products and faster methods of identifying readiness degrader root causes. The team lead is responsible for providing expertise to the team and training and learning opportunities to help develop personnel to more effectively support world class sustainment capabilities. The incumbent is expected to aggressively attack reliability issues and identify “shovel ready” investment opportunities with positive returns on investment to reduce flight hour operating costs. The team lead will ensure that the team uses data-driven approaches, engages with technically sound systems engineering practices, and effectively communicates risks/issues and their corresponding impacts and recommended courses of action to leadership and stakeholders. The following represent additional qualifications and knowledge areas that are desired for this position: Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS) process Common FRACAS (C-FRACAS) tool set Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) products/process Prognostics and Health Management (P&HM) and associated platform systems Boeing Top Tier, FAME and HMS Degrader Investigation tool sets Weibull Analysis Tableau Dashboards Deckplate and SQL Wide Area Workflow, EDA and other PIEE toolsets Condition Based Maintenance (CBM, CBM+) Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) process/analysis Reliability Control Board (RCB) process Statistical analysis and methods Reliability growth predictions Reliability testing such as environmental stress screening (ESS), highly accelerated life testing (HALT) and highly accelerated stress screening (HASS) Familiarity with Reliasoft and Minitab software applications Non-R&M-specific desired skill-sets and knowledge areas: Excellent project management and leadership skills Understanding of systems engineering and corresponding processes/approaches to include Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Experience working in a PMA environment Previous experience with PMA-265 systems and/or systems utilized by PMA-265 platforms such as: F/A-18, E/A-18G, Tactical Jamming Systems, Tactical Radars, and Tactical Early Warning and Detection Systems. DoD acquisition experience (all lifecycle phases) Risk/issue/opportunity (RIO) management System Safety process Strong communication skills Ability to employ critical thinking Ability to effectively multi-task and manage/prioritize self/team workload Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Teams, etc.) 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.
You will serve as a GENERAL ENGINEER in the Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Division of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV.