MECHANICAL ENGINEER

You will serve as a MECHANICAL ENGINEER in the System Safety/R&M Br (BL32100) of NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIV of NAVAIRWARCENADLKE You will serve as the team leader for assigned system safety program, managing the identification, analysis, documentation, and correction of system safety hazards You will develop system safety risk assessments in close collaboration with relevant engineering subject matter experts and facilitate risk acceptance by the appropriate authority. You will provide review of Engineering Change Proposals, Fleet Technical Publications, and evaluate Flight Clearances to ensure hazards are identified, communicated and that the appropriate hazard controls are in place You will prepare correspondence, technical reports, cost estimates for project funding, fact sheets, status reports and schedules as required to complete project assignments. Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the DP-03 (GS-9/11) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: professional MECHANICAL ENGINEER, performing some or all of the following duties: 1) Developing and processing System Safety Risk Assessments (SSRA) for risk acceptance, which include recommendations for economical and efficient engineering mitigations. Developing detailed technical safety analyses for highly complex systems to include considerations for hardware failures, software faults, and human factors behaviors. 2) Developing tailored system safety programs based on customer requirements and Navy, DOW and other government agency policies. Managing and directing safety program as the technical authority to ensure progress toward requirement completion within budget and schedule constraints. Developing clear and thoughtful contractual language for obligating safety program tasking and deliverables as required to contractor partners. 3) Serving as a system safety team leader, coordinating with internal, external, and government engineering disciplines to document and resolve system safety hazards and ensure safety-minded design features are considered during both design and mitigation program phases. Acting as chair for System Safety Working Group (SSWG) discussions to facilitate/resolve identified hazards. 4) Serving as a technical consultant and expert for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, the Laser Safety Review Board and the Weapon System Explosive Safety Review Board for cognizant systems assigned. Provides review of Engineering Change Proposals, Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization, evaluates Flight Clearances and other programmatic products and functions to ensure hazards are identified, communicated and appropriate hazard controls are in place. 5) Preparing detailed cost estimates for use in obtaining project funding. Preparing correspondence, technical reports, briefing material and presentations, fact sheets, status reports and schedules as required to complete project assignments. 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. Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. OR Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), 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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org OR Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 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 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. OR Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above) OR 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 one 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.