Interdisciplinary Engineer, NH-08XX-03

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Eligibility Requirements

US Citizenship

Career Category

Engineer

Job Summary

  • This position is within the U.S. Army Redstone Test Center (RTC) Aviation Flight Test Directorate (AFTD).  RTC participates in an alternate personnel system known as the Acquisition Demonstration Project, AcqDemo, among other features. AcqDemo replaces GS grade levels with occupational families and pay bands.

    The NH-03 band is equal to the GS-12 step 1 through GS-13 step 10. However, this position is subject to the NH-03, Senior Professional/Evaluator/Test/Analyst control point of the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) Control Point Policy, $139,798 per year, includes locality.

Job Responsibilities

  • Incumbent will serve as a flight test engineer and test director responsible for all aspects of developmental and/or operational tests of system integrations on various aviation weapon system platforms as well as contributing to and documenting flight operations and flight test developments. 
  • As a test director or team member, conducts test planning, cost estimating, execution, data acquisition, real-time safety-of-flight and data quality monitoring, data analysis, and reporting on flight testing projects.     
  • Report research and/or engineering results through written reports and oral presentations in support of Army Acquisition testing projects.
  • Serve as a technical subject-matter expert for consultations with materiel developers and/or manufacturers on matters dealing with manned and/or unmanned military rotorcraft and fixed-wing aircraft and aircraft systems.
  • Perform engineering analysis of aviation system performance to determine if it functions according to manufacturer statements and/or government specifications in order to assess suitability for military needs and document system shortcomings and deficiencies.
  • Plan and execute testing on aviation systems, covering the full spectrum of the aeronautical, mechanical, electronics, computer, systems, and human factors engineering disciplines.

Job Qualification

  • This position requires the incumbent to be able to obtain and maintain a determination of eligibility for a Secret security clearance or access for the duration of employment. A background investigation and credit check are required.

    This announcement uses the Direct Hiring Authority (DHA) for AcqDemo Business and Technical Management Career Path (NH) direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.

    In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

    Education:

    Basic Requirement for Engineering Positions:
    A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree(or higher degree) 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.
    OR
    B. Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
    1. Professional registration or licensure - 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 example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
    2. Written Test - 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, or Puerto Rico.
    3. Specified academic courses - Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
    4. Related curriculum - 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 degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 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.

    FOREIGN EDUCATION:

    If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit:
    http://www.ed.gov/about/off ices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Specialized Experience

In addition to meeting the basic requirements above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:

Three years of specialized experience which includes 1) Applying multidisciplinary engineering principles to identify problems and make recommendations on corrective courses of action for assigned test projects and; 2) Advising and guiding other engineers and project officers in the testing of systems such as advanced flight controls, avionics, navigation, visionics, weapons, radar, and aircraft survivability equipment and; 3) Coordinating test and evaluation efforts internally and externally with other agencies.

HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED. You will be evaluated based on your level of competency in the following areas:

  • You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above. As vacancies occur, the Human Resources Office will review your resume to ensure you meet the hiring eligibility and qualification requirements listed in this flyer. You will be rated based on the information provided in your resume, along with your supporting documentation. If, after reviewing your résumé and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility. Veterans and Military Spouses will be considered along with all other candidates. If selected, you may be required to provide additional supporting documentation.

    Required Documents:
    Your complete application includes your resume and other documents which prove your qualifications and eligibility to apply.
    If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package, and you will not be considered any further.
    1. Your resume:
    Your resume may be submitted in any format and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement. If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations, and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
    For qualifications determinations, your resume must contain hours worked per week and the dates of employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete, and you may not receive consideration for this position.
    2.  Other supporting documents:
    Cover letter, optional

    This position has an individual occupational requirement and/or allows for substitution of education for experience. If you meet this requirement based on education, you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your application package, or you will be rated ineligible. See:
    Transcripts and Licenses

    NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.

Conditions of Employment

  • This announcement uses the Business & Technical Management Career Path (NH) direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.
  • Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
  • You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
  • A one-year trial/probationary period may be required.
  • Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
  • Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from the Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
  • This is a Career Program (CP) 16 - Engineers & Scientists (Non-Construction) position.
  • This position requires the incumbent to be able to obtain and maintain a determination of eligibility for a Secret security clearance.
  • Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
  • This announcement will be used to fill multiple vacancies. 

Travel Requirements

Up to 20% Travel

QUESTIONS or issues please send us a message with the vacancy announcement URL, position title, and location to:

usarmy.redstone.atec.mbx.rtc-recruiting@army.mil