Aerospace Engineer (Flight Test) Position Available In Fulton, Georgia

Aerospace Engineer (Flight Test) Department of Transportion Federal Aviion Administrion AVS, Aircraft Certificion Service (AIR), Compliance & Airworthiness Division, AIR-711 & AIR-713 Summary The Senior Aerospace Engineer (Flight Test) position is loced within the Compliance & Airworthiness Division, AIR-700. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/08/2025 to 05/28/2025 Salary $94,544

• $146,571 per year Salary shown reflects base pay only. Locality determined by duty locion. Pay scale & grade FV J Locions 2 vacancies in the following locions: Hapeville, GA Burlington, MA Westbury, NY Des Moines, WA Telework eligible Yes—Situional telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy. Travel Required 50% or less
• The job may require up to 50% travel.

Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential NA Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test Yes Announcement number

ANM-AIR-25-1362375-94952

Control number 836497800 This job is open to Federal employees

• Competitive service Current federal employees whose agencies follow the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s hiring rules and pay scales. Federal employees
• Excepted service Current federal employees whose agencies have their own hiring rules, pay scales and evaluion criteria.

Veterans Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces or a spouse, widow, widower or parent of a veteran, who may be eligible for derived preference Clarificion from the agency This position is open to current and former Federal employees and Preference Eligibles or Veterans who are honorably discharged from the Armed Forces after completing least three (3) years of continuous active service. Duties Applies regulions and policy in managing the certificion and continued operional safety of aeronautical products and is responsible for organizing, planning, conducting and successfully completing type certificion/type validion projects; and oversight of compliance and safety systems; for supporting continued operional safety activities of aircraft, aircraft engines, propellers, or appliances in accordance with Title 14, Code of Federal Regulions (14 CFR), hereafter called aviion products. The incumbent provides input and support to the section manager to improve the efficiency and efficacy of the section including assignment of work, job performance, leadership of section engineers. Plans and accomplishes highly complex and challenging projects/programs under the minimal direction of a manager. The incumbent applies experience and comprehensive knowledge of engineering principles, theories, and concepts applicable to aerospace engineering as well as an understanding of new technologies and methodologies to solve complex problems and develop improved processes for the organizion. The incumbent supports the Section Manager in the alignment of section resources, activities, and stakeholders with AIR objectives; develops section personnel and resources consistent with AIR’s future needs. The incumbent assures compliance of aircraft and products with the approprie requirements of 14 CFR and with foreign certificion authority regulions governed by bileral agreements. Provides required briefings and/or technical presentions within the FAA and to manufacturers, professional organizions and to foreign certificion authorities. Provides input into monitoring and evaluing performance. Works to prepare employees for future opportunities across the division, with focus on continuity of operions and long-term organizional success. Coaches, mentors, and develops employees to perform current work and support career progression for the future. Ensures employees have technical skills to accomplish their assigned tasks. Monitors organizional health and regularly provides employee feedback to the section manager. Communices and regularly reinforces connectivity between section employee activities and the broader AIR mission. Works with employees to identify resource needs and advoces for resources on behalf of the team. Partners with other AIR organizions to accomplish work. Represents FAA aviion events, industry conferences, and other civil aviion authority meetings on topics pertinent to the Section. Medies the resolution of controversial technical disputes involving complex engineering issues. Represents the division or certificion/type validion branch, as applicable, as an FAA technical team representive in the development and standardizion of rules and guidance reled to their area of technical discipline expertise. Engages employees in documenting, refining, and assuring compliance with processes governing all activities. Assesses the productivity, quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of organizional processes. Oversees daily operions to ensure timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency, productivity, and compliance with policy in taining organizional goals. Facilites coordinion and effective communicion across FAA organizions, the aviion industry, and other civil aviion authorities to accomplish work. Provides input to the section manager regarding the oversight of technical and administrive support programs of the office. Responsible for supporting the section manger regarding the overall management responsibilities associed with the planning and direction of programs. Manages da systems, administrive processes, and da entry necessary to support office and branch performance metrics and dashboards th can be effectively used by the management team to manage branch and office performance. Performs other reled duties as assigned. Requirements Conditions of Employment US Citizenship is required. Selective Service Registrion is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Must submit an SF50 (See Required Documents). Designed or Random Drug Testing required. This position has a positive educion requirement. Transcript(s) required. Successful completion of security investigion may be required. Please Review Required Documents & Additional Informion section.

Qualificions Basic Requirements :

Successful completion of a full four-year professional engineering curriculum leading to a bachelor’s or higher degree in engineering in an accredited college or university. To be acceptable the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with least one curriculum accredited by the 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) stics, dynamics; (b)strength of merials (stress-strain relionships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nure and properties of merials (reling particle and aggrege structure to properties); (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, he transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics;

OR, ALTERNATIVE REQUIREMENTS

Combinion of educion and experience

• college-level educion, training, and/or technical experience th furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mhemical sciences underlying professional engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applicions to one of the branches of engineering.

The adequacy of such background must be demonstred by one of the following: Professional registrion: Current registrion as a professional engineer by any Ste, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico;

Written Test:

Evidence of having successfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examinion, or the written test required for professional registrion, which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners in the various Stes, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico; Specified academic courses: Successful completion of least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mhemical, and engineering sciences and in engineering th 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; Reled curriculum:

• Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor’s degree in engineering technology or in an approprie professional field, e.

g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mhemics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. For more informion on the alterne methods, please refer to the OPM Qualificion Standards for

Engineering :

http://main.opm.gov/qualificions/Standards/IORs/gs0800/0800.htm, Specialized Experience for

J-Band:

In addition to the basic/alternive qualificion requirements identified above, all applicants must demonstre one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade (FV-I or

FG/GS-13

). 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 th is typically in or directly reled to work of the position to be filled.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE

includes: Flight test experience in aircraft and/or rotorcraft performance testing, or avionics systems testing, or human factors evaluions to determine compliance with civil, or military, or foreign airworthiness standards. Experience evaluing and mitiging flight test risk. Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history. Qualificions must be met by the closing de of this vacancy announcement. Please ensure you answer all questions and follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may impact your ring or may result in you not being considered for the job. As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiive (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to elimining the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narrives from the initial applicion in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrive response in the text box listed below each KSA. In lieu of providing a KSA narrive response in the text box listed below each KSA in your work history, please include informion th 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 evalued further to valide whether the level th you selected is approprie based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as approprie. Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualificion requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evalued on the KSA listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluion, applicants placed in one of the following cegories: score order, cegory grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for considerion. Educion This position has a positive educion requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certifices by the closing de of announcement to verify qualificions. If selected, an official transcript required prior to appointment. You may upload these documents with your applicion 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 considerion. Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion. Accredition may be verified the following website: . Foreign educion must be evalued by a prive professional organizion specializing in interpretion of foreign educion credentials or an accredited U.S. educional institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired an American college or university. A copy of the evaluion results must be included, otherwise your foreign educion will not be Make sure your resume includes detailed informion to support your qualificions and answers to the job questionnaire. Additional informion We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions. Position may be subject to a background investigion. A one-year probionary period may be required. The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure stement within 30 days of entry on duty. FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviion-reled companies. This position is covered by the Department of Transportion’s Drug and Alcohol Testing Program. Any applicant tentively selected for this position subject to pre-employment or pre-appointment drug screening. Persons occupying a “testing designed position (TDP)” subject to random drug and/or alcohol testing. This announcement may be used to fill future vacancies in any other of the AIR-700 offices in the advertised Duty Locions. Duty stion will determine locality pay. Hapeville, GA

• 23.79% Burlington, MA
• 32.58% Westbury, NY
• 37.95% Des Moines, WA
• 31.

57% Please ensure you answer all questions and follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may result in you not being considered for the job.

Security Requirement:

Selection and placement are contingent upon waiver or completion of sisfactory security requirements. Modere Risk (5). The position requires completion and favorable adjudicion of a background investigion prior to appointment, unless a waiver is obtained. Subject to a 5-year periodic reinvestigion. Current or Former Federal employee (including a current FAA employee): You MUST submit a copy of your most recent (non-award) SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action, or equivalent document th verifies tenure (block 24, code 1 or 2). Failure to provide the required documention by the closing de of this announcement will result in non-considerion for this position. This is not a bargaining unit position. Links to

Important Informion:

, Benefits A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How You Will Be Evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.

IMPORTANT

Applicants may be red on the extent and quality of experience, educion, and training relevant to the duties of the position(s). All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantied. Ensure th your applicion package/resume supports your responses. Benefits A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required Documents As a new or existing federal employee, you and your family may have access to a range of benefits. Your benefits depend on the type of position you have

• whether you’re a permanent, part-time, temporary or an intermittent employee.

You may be eligible for the following benefits, however, check with your agency to make sure you’re eligible under their policies. Applicants must apply on-line, through USAJOBS, to receive considerion; Faxed, mailed or e-mailed applicions cannot be accepted. If you need to submit additional documents to supplement your on-line applicion, e.g. transcripts, SF-50, or veteran’s documents, you may upload these documents with your applicion in USAJOBS. Supplemental documention and college transcripts can also be faxed to (206) 231-4150 or emailed on or before the closing de of this announcement. Please include your name and the vacancy announcement number on each of your faxed pages and redact all Personally Identifiable Informion (PII), such as social security number and de of birth.

Applicants must submit the following:

• Resume with complete work history; and
• A copy of the most recent SF-50 (Notice of Personnel Action) with the required informion listed below.

Applicants claiming eligibility for the Expanded Veterans Hiring Opportunity (EVHO), MUST submit a DD Form 214 reflecting character of service to verify eligibility by the closing de of the announcement as requested by the Human Resource Office. Eligibility for EVHO considered based on applicable documention submitted by the closing de. This position has a positive educion requirement; college transcripts are required for ALL candides 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 a current or former Federal employee (including a current FAA employee), you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notificion of Personnel Action) containing informion in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organizion of record by the closing de of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line applicion. If faxing the SF-50, please ensure you include the vacancy announcement number on the faxed copy. If you are a current Federal employee and need a current copy of your SF-50, please contact your personnel office. If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system . If you are a former Federal employee, you can obtain a copy of your SF-50 by writing the Nional Personnel Records Center Annex, 1411 Boulder Boulevard, Valmeyer, IL 62295. Additional informion is available from this link: . Expanded Veterans Hiring Opportunity (EVHO) are preference eligibles and veterans who are honorably discharged from the Armed Forces after completing least three (3) years of continuous active service. Applicants claiming eligibility for

EVHO, MUST

submit a DD Form 214 reflecting character of service to verify eligibility by the closing de of the announcement as requested by the Human Resource Office. Eligibility for EVHO considered based on applicable documention submitted by the closing de. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply 30% or More Disabled Veteran Program you must submit a DD
214, Certifice of Discharge (Member 4 copy is preferred), and supporting
documention as required by form SF-15 such as an official stement, ded
1991 or ler, from the Department of Veterans Affairs or from branch of the
Armed Forces certifying to the present existence of the veterans
service-connected disability. Current or Former Federal employee (including a current FAA employee): You MUST submit a copy of your most recent (non-award) SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action, or equivalent document th verifies tenure (block 24, code 1 or 2). Failure to provide the required documention by the closing de of this announcement will result in non-considerion for this position. You must apply online to receive considerion. Your applicion must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close De for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associed with FAA registers, your applicion must be submitted the time a referral list is creed in order to receive considerion for positions associed with a register.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE OR EDUCATION.

We strongly encourage applicants to utilize the USAJOBS resume builder in the creion of resumes. Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following informion: Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job) Duties (be specific in describing your duties) Employer’s name and address Supervisor name and phone number Start and end des including month and year (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008) Full-time or part-time stus (include hours worked per week) Salary (optional) Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above informion and failure to provide ALL of this informion may result in a finding of ineligible. You may upload completed documents to your USAJOBS Account. This will provide you the opportunity to utilize the uploaded informion again when applying for future vacancies. Please see this guide, , for more informion on uploading and re-using the documents in your applicions. Agency contact informion Heher Ashby Phone Fax 1 (206) 231-4150 Address Federal Aviion Administrion ANM Regional HR Services Branch 2200 S. 216th St.

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Des Moines, WA 98198 US Next steps Once we receive your complete applicion, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluion of your qualificions. Eligible and qualified candides referred to the hiring manager for considerion. You contacted directly if selected for an interview. For instructions on how to check the stus of your applicion, please go to: . Important

• If you make any changes to your applicion, you must resubmit it.

If you make changes to your applicion and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your applicion package, and only your previously submitted applicion evalued. All qualified applicants considered regardless of political affiliion, race, color, religion, nional origin, gender, sexual oriention, marital stus, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Informion section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodion request. Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodion made on a case-by-case basis. Additional informion on reasonable accommodions procedures or on EEO Programs is available on or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office. Fair and Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Required Documents Applicants must apply on-line, through USAJOBS, to receive considerion; Faxed, mailed or e-mailed applicions cannot be accepted. If you need to submit additional documents to supplement your on-line applicion, e.g. transcripts, SF-50, or veteran’s documents, you may upload these documents with your applicion in USAJOBS. Supplemental documention and college transcripts can also be faxed to (206) 231-4150 or emailed on or before the closing de of this announcement. Please include your name and the vacancy announcement number on each of your faxed pages and redact all Personally Identifiable Informion (PII), such as social security number and de of birth.

Applicants must submit the following:

• Resume with complete work history; and
• A copy of the most recent SF-50 (Notice of Personnel Action) with the required informion listed below.

Applicants claiming eligibility for the Expanded Veterans Hiring Opportunity (EVHO), MUST submit a DD Form 214 reflecting character of service to verify eligibility by the closing de of the announcement as requested by the Human Resource Office. Eligibility for EVHO considered based on applicable documention submitted by the closing de. This position has a positive educion requirement; college transcripts are required for ALL candides 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 a current or former Federal employee (including a current FAA employee), you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notificion of Personnel Action) containing informion in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organizion of record by the closing de of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line applicion. If faxing the SF-50, please ensure you include the vacancy announcement number on the faxed copy. If you are a current Federal employee and need a current copy of your SF-50, please contact your personnel office. If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system . If you are a former Federal employee, you can obtain a copy of your SF-50 by writing the Nional Personnel Records Center Annex, 1411 Boulder Boulevard, Valmeyer, IL 62295. Additional informion is available from this link: . Expanded Veterans Hiring Opportunity (EVHO) are preference eligibles and veterans who are honorably discharged from the Armed Forces after completing least three (3) years of continuous active service. Applicants claiming eligibility for

EVHO, MUST

submit a DD Form 214 reflecting character of service to verify eligibility by the closing de of the announcement as requested by the Human Resource Office. Eligibility for EVHO considered based on applicable documention submitted by the closing de. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply 30% or More Disabled Veteran Program you must submit a DD
214, Certifice of Discharge (Member 4 copy is preferred), and supporting
documention as required by form SF-15 such as an official stement, ded
1991 or ler, from the Department of Veterans Affairs or from branch of the
Armed Forces certifying to the present existence of the veterans
service-connected disability. Current or Former Federal employee (including a current FAA employee): You MUST submit a copy of your most recent (non-award) SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action, or equivalent document th verifies tenure (block 24, code 1 or 2). Failure to provide the required documention by the closing de of this announcement will result in non-considerion for this position. You must apply online to receive considerion. Your applicion must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close De for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associed with FAA registers, your applicion must be submitted the time a referral list is creed in order to receive considerion for positions associed with a register.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE OR EDUCATION.

We strongly encourage applicants to utilize the USAJOBS resume builder in the creion of resumes. Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following informion: Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job) Duties (be specific in describing your duties) Employer’s name and address Supervisor name and phone number Start and end des including month and year (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008) Full-time or part-time stus (include hours worked per week) Salary (optional) Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above informion and failure to provide ALL of this informion may result in a finding of ineligible. You may upload completed documents to your USAJOBS Account. This will provide you the opportunity to utilize the uploaded informion again when applying for future vacancies. Please see this guide, , for more informion on uploading and re-using the documents in your applicions. Agency contact informion Heher Ashby Phone Fax 1 (206) 231-4150 Address Federal Aviion Administrion ANM Regional HR Services Branch 2200 S. 216th St.

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Des Moines, WA 98198 US Next steps Once we receive your complete applicion, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluion of your qualificions. Eligible and qualified candides referred to the hiring manager for considerion. You contacted directly if selected for an interview. For instructions on how to check the stus of your applicion, please go to: . Important

• If you make any changes to your applicion, you must resubmit it.

If you make changes to your applicion and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your applicion package, and only your previously submitted applicion evalued. All qualified applicants considered regardless of political affiliion, race, color, religion, nional origin, gender, sexual oriention, marital stus, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Informion section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodion request. Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodion made on a case-by-case basis. Additional informion on reasonable accommodions procedures or on EEO Programs is available on or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office. Fair & Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/08/2025 to 05/28/2025 Salary $94,544

• $146,571 per year Salary shown reflects base pay only. Locality determined by duty locion. Pay scale & grade FV J Locions 2 vacancies in the following locions: Hapeville, GA Burlington, MA Westbury, NY Des Moines, WA Telework eligible Yes—Situional telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy. Travel Required 50% or less
• The job may require up to 50% travel.

Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential NA Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test Yes Announcement number

ANM-AIR-25-1362375-94952

Control number 836497800 ., .