Aerospace Engineer

**Duties**:
Plans and accomplishes highly complex and challenging projects/programs and other work activities under the mínimal direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced engineer. May act as a principal technical specialist or as a project/program manager or team leader for large work activities.

Broad policies and objectives provide general guidance for addressing issues but allow considerable discretion to develop new and innovative approaches. Draws on experience to solve unusual problems and may create new solutions and policy interpretations as the situation requires. Participates in the evaluation, standardization, and approval of flight display symbology, color philosophy, flight deck design, and pilot-vehicle interface for type certification programs while balancing standardization needs with existing certification practices, project schedules, pilot training, and operational issues. Works with appropriate Standards Staff personnel, Flight Test Pilots, and Aircraft Evaluation Division (AED) personnel to evaluate human factors requirements for flight decks and associated equipment and displays. This includes coordinating and participating in formal team evaluations for new and novel display formats and technologies when necessary.

When requested, participates in strategic initiatives to standardize Human Factors evaluation procedures and requirements within the FAA through policy and regulation development, and through industry panels, consensus groups, and technical committees including working with the Human Factors (HF) Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor to accomplish AVS HF related strategic goals. Supports the FAA as required in industry forums and public speaking events where HF related issues are discussed or presented. Models leadership behavior through accountability, goal setting, collaborating, utilizing strategic thinking and influencing others to do the same.

Provides guidance to lower-level staff to solve difficult technical issues. Resolves all but unique technical problems without the intervention of management or a more experienced engineer. Work is reviewed rarely, typically through status reports and at project completion, to ensure technical compliance and alignment with the requirements of the project or other work activity.
- Designated Safety Critical Position.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- US Citizenship is required.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- Designated or Random Drug Testing required.
- This position has a positive education requirement. Transcript(s) required.
- If the agency decides to interview any qualified employee on the selection list, then all on the list who are qualified must be interviewed.
- First, Second or Third Class Medical Certificate required.

**Qualifications**:
**Specialized Experience for J-Band**: All applicants must demonstrate one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the FV-I or FG/GS-13 level. Specialized experience is experience which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position and that is typically in or directly related to work of the position to be filled. **SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE includes**:

- Experience with the design and certification of advanced flight deck designs and flight display systems in FAR 23/25/27/29 aircraft, FAR 23/25/27/29 Human Factors regulations and policy (or military equivalent airworthiness standards).
- Experience with flight testing experience as test conductor during experimental, developmental or certification of aircraft.

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

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

Please ensure you answer all questions and follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may impact your rating or may result in you not being considered for the job.

In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate.

**Education**:
**Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration.**

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