Electronics Engineer

Federal Aviation Administration •

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Position Type: Contractor

Job Description:

This position retains responsibility for the management and oversight of airline customers desiring participation with digital departure clearances and/or digital automatic terminal information services (D-ATIS).

Duties

As industry becomes more familiar with the capability of Tower Data Link Services (TDLS) to provide departure clearances as text messages, they must request participation. The individual meets with airline industry customers to identify interface requirements, message formats, and connection requirements through the FAA boundary to collaborate on development and testing of their interface, and ensures the customer passes critical test and operational parameters to allow participation. This position also supports a high level of responsibility with the oversight and technical management of TDLS information security actions.

The position oversees the management of certificates and authentication for any airline customer connecting to TDLS for departure clearance messages or D-ATIS messages. The individual in the position maintains the proper security protocols between industry and TDLS. Additionally, this position works with the Information System Security office on identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities and risks with TDLS and its connection to other FAA systems, operational IP circuits through the Federal Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI), and industry customers through the FAA NAS Enterprise Security Gateway (NESG) boundary.

a. Assigned as the agency’s technical expert providing highly complex and challenging work activities for a system or family of systems in the National Airspace System (NAS). Within assigned area, provides guidance and technical direction, and serves as senior consultant on matters relating to problems with these systems from acquisition and initial implementation through the life cycle. Has considerable latitude in determining technical approach to resolving problems.

b. Frequently represents the organization as technical expert in assigned area to other organizations of the ATO, other organizations of the FAA, other government organizations, contractors, and airline customers.

c. Analyzes performance of equipment and systems in assigned areas and identifies the need to investigate and resolve problems that affect system performance, reliability, or service continuity. Conducts engineering studies of system-wide scope to develop and implement solutions to these problems. Problems are often complex and unique. Engineering studies often involve extensive research across engineering disciplines. Solutions often apply new technologies and develop new and innovative methods of testing.

d. Identifies the need for, and adequacy of, technical documentation required to maintain and certify NAS equipment in assigned area. Sets maintenance policy for systems in assigned area. Oversees the review, development, and enhancement of technical instruction books and maintenance handbooks by contractors and project engineers. Identifies new maintenance and testing technologies and practices, and initiates efforts to incorporate these into maintenance documentation for assigned systems.

e. Reviews work of project engineers on exceptionally complex projects for technical accuracy and adequacy. Maintains an awareness of the status and progress of all projects within the assigned technical area and recommends adjustments in accordance with established priorities. Provides input to management on performance, progress, and training needs of project engineers and computer scientists.

Incumbent applies experience and comprehensive knowledge of engineering principles, theories, and concepts applicable to electronics engineering as well as an understanding of new technologies and methodologies to solve complex problems and develop improved technical processes for the organization.

Broad policies and objectives provide general guidance for addressing issues, but allow considerable discretion to develop new and innovative approaches.

Work is reviewed rarely, typically though status reports and at project completion, to ensure technical compliance and alignment with the requirements of the project or other work activity.

Job Requirements:

Requirements
Conditions of Employment

US Citizenship is required.

Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.

Must submit an SF50 (See Required Documents).

This position has a positive education requirement. Transcript(s) required.

Qualifications

To view the complete OPM qualification standard for the Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Electronics Engineering Series, 0855, please refer to: Electronics Engineering Series 0855 (opm.gov)

Basic Requirements:

A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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.

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)1, 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)2 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.

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 the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.

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 bachelor’s 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

In addition to the Basic Requirements, to qualify for this position you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I / FG/GS 13. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.

Specialized experience is: Experience providing operational engineering support (modification engineering; technical assistance in restoration) for NAS Communications equipment and systems.

A Quality Ranking Factors (QRFs) have been identified for this announcement. A QRF is a KSA or competency that could be expected to significantly enhance performance in a position. Possession of the QRF is not mandatory for minimum qualifications, however may determine the best qualified.

Quality Ranking Factor(s)(QRF's):

Skill working with commercial airlines to develop requirements and testing procedures to receive digital clearances from the Tower Data Link Services (TDLS) equipment.

Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history.

Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

Errors or omissions may impact your rating or may result in you not being considered for the job.

Interview Policy: If the Agency decides to interview any qualified employee on the selection list, then all on the list who are qualified must be interviewed. If the selection list is shortened to a best qualified list through a comparative process, then the best qualified list shall be considered to be the selection list.

Education

This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcement to verify qualifications. If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment. You may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS or fax it to fax number provided in the announcement (please include announcement number on each page).

Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration.

Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Accreditation may be verified at the following website: www.ed.gov/accreditation.

Foreign education must be evaluated by a private professional organization specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials or an accredited U.S. educational institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired at an American college or university. A copy of the evaluation results must be included, otherwise your foreign education will not be considered.

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IMPORTANT: Applicants may be rated on the extent and quality of experience, education, and training relevant to the duties of the position(s). All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantiated. Ensure that your application package/resume supports your responses.

Required Documents

Notification of Personnel Action (SF-50).

Only supplemental documentation, e.g. transcripts or veteran's documentation will be accepted in combination with your on-line application. These documents must be uploaded or emailed to Courtney.A.Rowan@faa.gov on or before the closing date of this announcement. All submitted documents should reference the announcement number.

This position has a positive education requirement; college transcripts are required for ALL candidates newly appointed to the FAA in the 0800 (Engineering) series.

College transcripts must be submitted from current FAA employees applying for internal vacancies if they have never held a position in the 0800 (Engineering) series with the FAA.

College transcripts are not required from current FAA employees who are currently occupying an 0800 (Engineering) series.

If selected, official transcripts are required prior to employment.

If you are an FAA employee, you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) containing information in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organization of record by the closing date of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line application. If faxing the SF-50, please ensure you include the vacancy announcement number on the faxed copy.

If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system https://eopf.opm.gov/dot/.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

Salary Range: $108,601 - $168,362

Job Ident #: 813500800

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