SUPERVISORY INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER

Summary

You will serve as a Supervisory Mechanical Engineer or Supervisory Aerospace Engineer in the Air Vehicle Engineering Department of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV. You will also function as a Science and Technology Group Lead in support of assigned aviation weapon systems.

Duties

• You will be considered an expert in Flight Controls technical discipline and associated tools and processes.
• You will lead science and technology engineering activities by facilitating technology transfer from science and technology research to programs of record, and supporting flight controls development for assigned aviation weapon systems.
• You will develop project-planning objectives for engineering development of current and long range programs.
• You will supervise and perform official supervisory responsibilities for assigned subordinates.
• You will interpret policies promulgated by authorities to determine their effect on aviation program needs.
• You will oversee the planning of resources to accomplish major blocks of the engineering endeavor.
• You will prepare written and oral presentations stakeholders on project status, technical problems, scheduling, and costs for assigned program/project.
• You will accomplish other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience as a Professional Mechanical Engineer and/or an Aerospace Engineer equivalent to the STRL NM-03 Pay Band or equivalent GS Grade Level (GS-9/12) in the Federal Service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Examples of specialized experience for this position include: (1) Performing flight controls research in one or more of the following areas: robust and adaptive control; autonomous systems; control system improvements for legacy aircraft; advanced hardware/software for sensing, actuation, or computation; integrating novel control architectures or algorithms; or verification and certification of advanced control systems; 2) Managing project requirements, objectives, and metrics in support of agency mission; 3) Resolving conflicts among schedules, funding, and resources for a major aviation program; 4) Interpreting policies promulgated by authorities to determine their effect on aviation program needs; 5) Coordinating and assigning work for technical or non-technical personnel based on aviation program initiatives and agency needs; (6) Preparing in-depth written and oral presentations for stakeholders on project/program status, technical problems, scheduling, and costs; and (7) Performing supervisory and administrative responsibilities for assigned subordinates. Additional education and qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management websites: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Occupational-Series 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.

Education

Any claims you make in your resume regarding education or degrees MUST be supported by submitting with your application official or unofficial transcripts issued from your school. While unofficial transcripts are acceptable for initial application, an official transcript will ultimately be required if you are selected for the position. See Required Documents for additional information. Additionally, all 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.

How to apply

Click the Apply Online button to create an account or log in to your existing USAJOBS account. To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Application Package which includes: 1. Complete resume. Your resume must show relevant experience, job title, duties and accomplishments. Resumes are restricted to no more than 2 pages. Illegible/unreadable resumes will not be considered. Your resume must show complete information for each job entry to support minimum qualifications. The following information should be provided in your resume: employer's name, starting and end dates (Mo/Yr), hours per week if experience was less than full time (35-40 hours per week), pay plan, series and grade level (e.g. GS-0201-09) for relevant federal experience. TIP: A good way to ensure you include all essential information is to use the Resume Builder in USAJOBS to create your resume. 2. Documentation that supports all of the claims made in your resume and assessment questionnaire Failure to submit a complete application package will result in an ineligible rating and loss of consideration. Your complete application must be received by 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 09/08/2026to receive consideration. Applications received after 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 09/08/2026 will generally not be accepted. If more than one resume is received, only the last resume received and processed will be reviewed. Please do not submit multiple resumes. For additional information on viewing your application status, click https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to/application/status. You are encouraged to apply online. Applying online will allow you to review and track the status of your application. Do not email or send hard copy resumes/applications to the Contact Information or Agency Information listed in this vacancy announcement. All resumes/applications received at the addresses listed in the Contact Information or Agency Information will be destroyed and will not be considered for this vacancy announcement. It is the applicant's responsibility to verify that all information in their resume, assessment questionnaire, and supporting documents are legible and accurate. Human Resources will not modify a resume or change an applicant's answer to a question, even upon request.