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Aerospace Engineer
Federal Aviation Administration · Posted 51 days ago
Hybrid Oklahoma City, OK $112K – $173K Apply by Aug 25, 2026 Aerospace Engineering INTJINTPISTJ EngineeringOperations
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This position serves as an Aerospace Engineer (Structural Electrical/Avionics) in Flight Program Operations, Technical Services, AJF-2000.
What You'll Do
- →May act as the principal engineer or as a project/program manager or team lead for large work activities.
- →The incumbent 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 organization.
- →Also applies experience and knowledge of risk analysis techniques to analyze and evaluate the safety and reliability of aeronautical products, or systems, or components.
- →Assures compliance of aircraft and products with the appropriate requirements of 14 CFR and with foreign certification authority regulations governed by bilateral agreements.
- →Defines and organizes resources to accomplish organizational project/program objectives.
- →Uses allocated resources to accomplish large work activities within established schedules.
- →Prepares reports and provides required briefings and/or technical presentations within the FAA and to manufacturers, professional organizations and to foreign certification authorities.
- →Represents the division or certification/type validation branch, as applicable, as a FAA technical team representative in the development and standardization of rules and guidance related to their area of technical discipline expertise.
- →Provides guidance to lower-level staff and works with other engineers to collaborate engineering solutions to resolve complex issues which involves input from different FAA offices and other organizations to achieve successful results in type certification, type validation, systems oversight and continued operational safety programs.
- →The incumbent's expertise is relied on within the industry, the appropriate directorate and the FAA to provide oversight to ensure airworthiness of certificated aviation products.
- →The incumbent is a mentor, coach, and role model to less knowledgeable or less experienced engineers and distributes tasking in accordance with management-defined criteria.
- →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.
Requirements
- ✓We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.
- ✓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.
- ✓See Qualifications Required.
- ✓Information Regarding KSA's: As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements.
- ✓Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.
- ✓In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs), 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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: db2d23b8-abfa-438c-a082-e20dea10c501
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