GENERAL ENGINEER

You will serve as a JSF F-35 PHM Lead Engineer in the SYSTEMS AQUISITION GROUP, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, RELIABILITY/MAINTAINABILITY ENGINEERING DIVISION of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV. You will fill the role of Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Lead Engineer for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F-35 program. You will report and provide direct support to the overarching F-35 Maintenance Systems Program Management Organization (MxS PMO) Data Portfolio Lead, acting as the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead. You will be responsible for the short and long-range planning, implementation, and execution of the PHM program and the active formulation of processes and policies necessary for execution of PHM program and MxS PMO Data Portfolio activities. You will support the development, execution, coordination, and management of PHM and related tasking and will be required to provide technical/engineering guidance and project support to his/her team lead to ensure program success. You will take on, lead, and manage PHM tasking independently with little to no oversight from the Data Portfolio Lead. You will be responsible for development and execution of F-35 PHM program policies and practices in concert with guidance from PHM technical leadership. You will develop, refine, and document processes; and assist the Data Portfolio Lead to train other program personnel on those processes. You will ensure that the PHM team and Data Portfolio uses data-driven approaches, engages with technically sound systems engineering practices, and always finds ways to incorporate efficiency. You will effectively communicate risks/issues and their corresponding impacts and recommended courses of action to the Data Portfolio Lead and other program stakeholders. In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the DP-03 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Leadership Experience: Demonstrate/possess the capacity to lead as exemplified by possessing the ability to do one or more of the following: Manage a small to moderate cross-functional team(s); 2) Establish/coordinate/oversee team tasking/work and their priorities; 3) Regularly communicate efficiently and effectively up and down the chain within the PMA and the Div./Dept both orally and electronically; 4) Develop sound/novel approaches to mitigate risks/issues and to create new opportunities for the team/program; 5) Resolve team or group conflicts. Project Management Experience: Demonstrates the ability to effectively do one or more of the following: 1) Manage/prioritize a large number of tasks; 2) Ability to pivot and shift to meet new/emerging program requirements; 3) Use critical thinking and active listening to arrive at most sound and informed plans of actions; 4) Regularly track/status/report on tasking w/ focus on customer need dates; 5) Properly manage available / (acquire) new resources to ensure project success. Applicable Technical and Acquisition Skillsets: Possesses experience in one or more of the following (some being required as denoted): 1) Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) and integrated health management systems and the methodologies/techniques for implementing them (REQUIRED); 2) R&M metrics, processes, and methodologies (preferred); 3) DoW aircraft and aircraft supporting systems acquisition process and lifecycle (REQUIRED); 3) Systems Engineering and MBSE (preferred); 4) Fixed wing fighter aircraft platforms (preferred). Platform and PMA Familiarity / Experience: 1. Demonstrates working knowledge or sound familiarity with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter weapons system and all of its variants to include its design, operation, and mission; 2. Has a working understanding of or familiarity of the JSF Program Office (JPO) organization, its operation, and it's relation to PAE(A) and NAWCAD. 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 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 positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must posses: 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.ORCurrent 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.orgOREvidence 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. 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.