– ENTRY LEVEL – General Engineer

Summary

This position serves as a General Engineer in support of the systems engineering function to provide electrical power of a quality, reliability and availability that fully supports the operational requirements of the National Airspace System (NAS).

Duties

Assists in monitoring performance and reliability of systems. Analyzes performance results and assists other team members in recommending system adjustments or enhancements. Performs telephone contact to assist in diagnosing and correcting system problems and/or failures. Work is reviewed frequently during assignments and at completion for all aspects of quality.

Assists in identifying requirements for functional improvements or system enhancements using statistical and empirical information. Analyzes system performance and fault data from field facilities use to assist senior engineer in identifying causes of operational problems, system malfunctions, and support the development and implementation of solutions. Established policies and procedures provide detailed guidance for almost all assignments, with little to no room for discretion. Uses these established guidelines to complete necessary user and technical documentation to support maintenance processes. Follows established change management practices to coordinate changes with affected stakeholders.

Applies basic knowledge of software engineering principles, theories, and concepts applicable discipline to plan and accomplish assignments. Analyzes user requirements. Assists more experienced engineer in monitoring systems to correct and prevent problems for optimal performance. Assists in providing customer support for critical operational NAS systems. Results of the work enable user organizations to accomplish mission requirements in the most effective manner possible through optimal application of systems engineering.

Works closely with supervisor or senior engineer to plan time and use assigned resources to accomplish assignments and projects and integrate and coordinate work with users and related functions. Refers problems and work issues to manager or senior engineer.

Contacts require sharing information, providing data and/or written analyses, and discussing status of work assignments or issues or problems. Limited contact may also occur with the public and contractors, under supervision.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

BASIC REQUIREMENTS:

(A) Degree: Professional Engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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 & 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 professional 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 in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph A above.

4) Related Curriculum - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had a 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. (Above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise.

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).