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Federal Aviation Administration

Des Moines, WA (In Person)

$160,203 Salary, Full-Time

Posted 3 weeks ago (Updated 1 day ago) • Actively hiring

Expires 6/7/2026

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General Engineer Department of Transportion Federal Aviion Administrion ATO, Western Service Center, Planning and Requirements Group, Requirements Teams, AJV-W300 Summary Serves as the Subject Mter Expert (SME), or Lead expert for ATO Nional Airspace System (NAS) requirements. Provides leadership for highly complex and challenging activities under the minimal direction of the Requirements Manager. Leads activities/projects for management and communicion of the requirements for establishment and/or sustainment of all NAS facilities, communicing assignments, milestones and deadlines to the team and giving advice, counsel, and instructions in the work. Learn more about this agency Summary Serves as the Subject Mter Expert (SME), or Lead expert for ATO Nional Airspace System (NAS) requirements. Provides leadership for highly complex and challenging activities under the minimal direction of the Requirements Manager. Leads activities/projects for management and communicion of the requirements for establishment and/or sustainment of all NAS facilities, communicing assignments, milestones and deadlines to the team and giving advice, counsel, and instructions in the work. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 04/17/2026 to 05/07/2026 Salary $125,635
  • $194,772 per year The salary listed above includes 31.57% locality for Des Moines, WA. Pay scale & grade FV J Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Des Moines, WA Telework eligible Yes—Situional telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy. Travel Required Occasional travel
  • The job may require travel from time-to-time, but not on a regular basis. The travel may be for training or other work-reled duties. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential NA Job family (Series) 0801 General Engineering Supervisory stus No Security clearance Other Drug test No Bargaining unit stus Yes
  • This position is represented by
NATCA:
Engineers & Architects. Announcement number
ANM-ATO-26-0999107-98202
Control number 865580300 This job is open to Help Internal to an agency Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement. Clarificion from the agency Open to current permanent FAA employees within ATO (ATO-Wide). Duties Help Applies experience and comprehensive technical knowledge of a wide range of methods to gher, analyze, and evalue informion on program and project issues and the impact of technological, procedural, financial and managerial considerions. The incumbent supports the validion and prioritizion of the NAS needs and communices them to the Nional Program Office for funding while considering the objectives of the ATO. Supports the program office during product development, validion, and verificion and suggests ways to improve production or increase quality of work directed and develop broad recommendions on enhancing the efficiency of NAS systems by modificion and applicion of existing or emerging technology. As the primary technical point of contact, provides technical guidance and direction on multiple systems. Contacts include high level representives both inside A TO organizions, including nional program offices, ATS and Tech Ops District managers, Engineering and Technical services management and outside the ATO organizions, including Airports, Nional Defense agencies, contractors, etc. while understanding of how his/her technical area interacts with other disciplines. May act as a principal specialist to develop new and innovive approaches, methodologies, and/or techniques as a team leader to define and direct challenging projects/programs/ activities. Work activities typically impact directly on the objectives of one or more organizional units, major subdivisions, and LOBs/SOs, and may affect the objectives of the FAA. Requirements Help 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). This position has a positive educion requirement. Transcript(s) required. Qualificions Applicants must meet the following requirements:
Degree:
Professional Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with 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) 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); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, he transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR 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 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: 1. Professional registrion or licensure
  • Current registrion as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any Ste, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registrion by means other than written test (e.g., Ste grandfher or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions th are within or closely reled to the specialty field of their registrion. For example, an applicant who tains registrion through a Ste Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be red eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. 2. Written Test
  • Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examinion or any other written test required for professional registrion by an engineering licensure board in the various Stes, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. 3. Specified academic courses
  • Successful completion of least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mhemical, and engineering sciences and th included the courses specified in the basic requirements section above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described above. 4. Reled curriculum
  • Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an approprie scientific field, e.
g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mhemics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had 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 reled curricula are not all-inclusive.) In addition to meeting the basic requirement, to qualify for this position, you must demonstre in your applicion th you possess least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I (FG/GS-13). Specialized experience is experience th has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Specialized experience includes experience with the function and interrelionships of NAS equipment, functions and/or operions, and FAA and NAS priorities, plans, procedures and policies. In addition, specialized experience includes comprehensive technical work on NAS systems, facilities, and equipment, including experience in the development, implemention, and oversight of programs and projects. Applicants must include examples of specialized experience in their work history. Qualificions requirements must be met by the closing de of this vacancy announcement. For additional informion on qualificion requirements, please the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website : https://www.opm.gov/policy-da-oversight/classificion-qualificions/general-schedule-qualificion-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801/ 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: www.ed.gov/accredition . 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 A copy of your unofficial/final college or university transcript MUST accompany your applicion if you have never held a position in the 800 series with the FAA. Preview job questionnaire 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. www.faa.gov/jobs/workinghere/financial-disclosure-requirements 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 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. If the Agency decides to interview any qualified employee on the selection list, then all on the list who are qualified must be interviewed. Links to
Important Informion:
Locality Pay , COLA Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help 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 Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits 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 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 Help 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 Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits 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 Required Documents Help 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. If you have
NEVER HELD
a position in the 800 series within the FAA, a copy of your unofficial/final college or university transcript MUST accompany your applicion. Only supplemental documention, e.g. transcripts or veteran's documention accepted in combinion with your on-line applicion. These documents must be uploaded or faxed to (424) 405-7365 on or before the closing de of this announcement. All submitted documents should reference the announcement number. We cannot guarantee timely receipt and assume responsibility for the quality or legibility of the faxes, illegible documents will result in loss of considerion. You only need to submit those items required on the announcement. 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 an 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 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 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 schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . 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 Help Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluion process. This assessment aims to evalue the competencies and qualificions essential for the 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.
RESUMES ARE LIMITED TO TWO PAGES. IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC AND INCLUDE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO THE QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION.
Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following informion: Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job) Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualificions and include job title, employer name, start/end des, number of hours worked per week. Educion, certificion or licensure: If required, educion should include school/institution name, completion de, degree type and GPA. 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. Agency contact informion Jennifer Molano Phone 1 (206) 231-4047 Fax 1 (206) 231-4150 jennifer.m.molano@faa.gov Address Federal Aviion Administrion ANM Regional HR Services Branch 2200 S. 216th St.
AHF-N210
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: USAJOBS Help Guide . 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 Office of Civil Rights (ACR) 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. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help 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. If you have
NEVER HELD
a position in the 800 series within the FAA, a copy of your unofficial/final college or university transcript MUST accompany your applicion. Only supplemental documention, e.g. transcripts or veteran's documention accepted in combinion with your on-line applicion. These documents must be uploaded or faxed to (424) 405-7365 on or before the closing de of this announcement. All submitted documents should reference the announcement number. We cannot guarantee timely receipt and assume responsibility for the quality or legibility of the faxes, illegible documents will result in loss of considerion. You only need to submit those items required on the announcement. 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 an 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 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 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 schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . 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 Help Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluion process. This assessment aims to evalue the competencies and qualificions essential for the 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.
RESUMES ARE LIMITED TO TWO PAGES. IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC AND INCLUDE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO THE QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION.
Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following informion: Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job) Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualificions and include job title, employer name, start/end des, number of hours worked per week. Educion, certificion or licensure: If required, educion should include school/institution name, completion de, degree type and GPA. 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. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Jennifer Molano Phone 1 (206) 231-4047 Fax 1 (206) 231-4150 jennifer.m.molano@faa.gov Address Federal Aviion Administrion ANM Regional HR Services Branch 2200 S. 216th St.
AHF-N210
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: USAJOBS Help Guide . 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 Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 04/17/2026 to 05/07/2026 Salary $125,635
  • $194,772 per year The salary listed above includes 31.57% locality for Des Moines, WA. Pay scale & grade FV J Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Des Moines, WA Telework eligible Yes—Situional telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy. Travel Required Occasional travel
  • The job may require travel from time-to-time, but not on a regular basis. The travel may be for training or other work-reled duties. 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 No Bargaining unit stus
  • This position is represented by
NATCA:
Engineers & Architects. Announcement number
ANM-ATO-26-0999107-98202
Control number 865580300

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