DEPLOYED REENTRY AEROSPACE ENGINEER

You will provide special technical expertise and leadership in complex coordination and management of all contractor engineering and product assurance efforts.

You will lead development efforts related to the Strategic Weapons Systems (SWS) and missile, reentry and guidance subsystems including aerodynamic structures; electronics; test equipment; support equipment; software; and ordnance engineering.

You may be required to coordinate shipping, transfer or redirecting of government owned property to other facilities or contracts to meet program needs and requirements.

You will influence, lead, monitor, and approve contractor design and product quality assurance efforts in satisfying contractual requirements for various subsystems.

You will monitor and approve efforts dealing with acceptability, utilization and sustainment of hardware, support equipment, and software including design and process changes. This includes the assessment and evaluation of aging effects.

You will assure that configuration control of weapons systems is in compliance with the approved Configuration Management processes.

You will implement program policy, engineering criteria, and provide information to the prime contractor and Navy field activities.

You will represent the command in assigned areas of responsibility when interfacing with field activities, fleet representatives, contractors, Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), laboratories, and consultants.

For the NH-02 Position In order to qualify for this position, you must meet the basic education requirement for this position outlined in the education section of this announcement (see below Education section).

For the NH-03 Position In addition to the basic education requirement, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NH-02 (GS-11 equivalent) pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: As a professional engineer providing technical oversight and direction to manage in the design, development, and implementation of aerospace programs or reentry system programs in order to devise effective solutions that solve program constraints.

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/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.