Job Description:

As a supervisor/manager, the selectee for this position will be eligible to receive a Manager Performance Incentive (MPI) provided eligibility requirements noted in agency policy are met. The MPI is an annual lump-sum incentive payment that considers agency performance, the managers individual performance, and available funding.

This position is located in Next/Gen/William J. Hughes Technical Center, Aviation Research Division, Aviation Research Division, Fuels and Energy Section, ANG-E283.

Duties

The incumbent works as the Manager, Fuels and Energy Section. The Division develops scientific solutions to current and future air transportation challenges by conducting applied research and development in collaboration with industry, academia, and government to ensure a safe, efficient, and environmentally sound global air transportation system. The Structures and Propulsion Branch is responsible for conducting research primarily on aircraft systems, aircraft components, and airframe structures to support continued airworthiness requirements, catastrophic failure prevention, and safety oversight of new/ emerging technologies (such as additive manufacturing, advance material science, etc.). The Fuels and Energy section is responsible for development of certification methodology for conducting research related to new fuel and energy propulsive technologies.

Incumbent is Supervisory General Engineer responsible for managing work, leading staff, and operating laboratories in support of the Fuels and Energy Section. Serves as technical expert and advisor to branch manager section research and development efforts. Applies broad technical, engineering and policy expertise to conduct research on fuel and energy propulsive technologies. This includes management of the Propulsion and airpOWer Engineering Research (POWER) Laboratory and the Aviation Fuels Research (AFRL) Laboratory. To achieve organizational success: maintains technical rigor across the organization to achieve; ensures the responsiveness of the organization; builds, maintains, and leverages relationships and/or partnerships; and ensures research requirements are conducted on time and within budget and the results are of high quality.

Major duties include:

Responsible for managing work, leading assigned personnel, and operating and maintaining the associated laboratories in support of the organization’s research and development mission. Ensures that the organizations strategic plan, mission, vision and values are communicated to assigned personnel and integrated into project plans, work products, and services. Develops long-range goals and objectives, and sets and adjusts priorities as required. Conducts extensive coordination of staff actions and develops guidance to ensure compliance. Exercises the full range of supervisory and personnel management authorities and responsibilities in directing work of subordinate managers and/or staff. Conducts extensive coordination and integration of work with all elements within the FAA and a large variety of external organizations, including other government agencies, industry, and academia. The research and development nature of the section requires the incumbent to exercise a high level of technical expertise, creativity, and analytical skills to develop solid processes, broad thinking, managerial and leadership competence, as well as strong communication skills.

Applies a broad knowledge of several disciplines (e.g., engineering, computer scientists, etc.) and a wide range of engineering principles, practices, techniques and judgment to unique, key research and development programs. Applies integrative skills and technical functional knowledge to practices and procedures necessary to assess and evaluate research programs, results, outputs, and emerging technologies or drivers from industry, academia, and other services and agencies. Also, evaluates program challenges and risks, and identifies opportunities to collaborate and leverage technologies into existing or planned programs.

Represents the organization at high level meetings with key officials of industry, academia, and other government organizations.

Develops and coordinates international agreements. Represents the organization on boards, panels, and committees.

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.
A one-year supervisor/managerial probationary period may be required.

Qualifications

To view the complete OPM qualification standard for the Group Coverage Qualification Standard for General Engineer, Series 801, please refer to:

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801/

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.

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)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.)

To qualify for this position, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-J, FG/GS 14. 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 includes: Experience leading technical research and development in aviation safety research in the areas of liquid hydrocarbon, electric high voltage energy, and propulsion operations.

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 Danielle.C.Long@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.

Job Ident #: 827331800

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