Naval Air Systems Command — Patuxent River, Maryland
Pay: $121,785–$187,093 per year
You will serve as a Supervisory Mechanical Engineer or Supervisory Aerospace Engineer in the Air Systems Group, Air Vehicle Engineering Department, Aeromechanics Division of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV.
Duties You will serve as a Branch-level Section Head and technical expert team lead and oversees a subset of all relevant Navy, Marine Corps, and joint service aircraft programs, products, and services supported by the Branch. You will have professional knowledge of aeromechanics technical concepts, principles and practices of aeronautical engineering to enable the incumbent to serve as a leader in the Branch’s technical area. You will evaluate and apply new technical developments and to use innovative methods in solving problems not readily treatable by traditional methods. You will plan, acquire, negotiate and tracks team funding and ensures that all team members are appropriately funded for the fiscal year and coordinates funding. You will responsible for the technical control of the engineering process in terms of their technical discipline and developmental test requirements. You will provide technical advice to Branch members, establishing and improving technical processes, and for representing the US Navy to other DoD services, industry, and academia. You will review correspondence, recommendations, technical evaluations and products prepared by team members to ensure that engineering assessments are accurate, credible, and traceable to established best practices. You will provide leadership, oversight, planning, training, coaching, and guidance to the team and subordinates in the performance of their duties. You will perform supervisory responsibilities for subordinates, including the development of work performance objectives, monitoring progress, conducting performance assessments, provide feedback and assessing and rating employee performance. You will provide technical and programmatic guidance on task priorities to ensure the team effort meets the program objectives and schedule.
Qualifications Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12/13 grade level or pay band DP-04 n the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a SUPERVISORY MECHANICAL/AEROSPACE ENGINEER performing duties such as: 1) Serves as an empowered engineer and platform lead for fixed wing or rotorcraft aircraft platforms; 2) Knowledge of flying qualities and flight dynamics concepts, principles, and practices of aeronautical engineering for assigned aircraft platforms; 3) Providing support to engineering activities related to aerodynamics, flight dynamics, and simulation of aircraft, including the analysis and assessment of stability and control, and flying qualities; development of real-time piloted simulations and flight test activities; 4) Understanding of related air vehicle engineering fields such as flight controls, performance and aerodynamics, modeling and simulation, and flight testing; 5) Leading team(s) of multidisciplinary professionals; and 6) Mentoring, training, and/or coaching others.
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).
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