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Aerospace Engineer (Systems) - Direct Hire
National Transportation Safety Board · Posted 11 days ago
Hybrid Washington, DC $144K – $187K Apply by Jul 14, 2026 Aerospace Engineering INTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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This position is located in the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Office of Aviation Safety (OAS) in Washington, D.C. Participates, investigates, and directs engineering aspects of aircraft flight controls, avionics, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems.
What You'll Do
- →As a Aerospace Engineer (Systems) - Direct Hire, GS-0861-14, you will perform the following major duties: Provides authoritative engineering expertise on aircraft flight controls, avionics, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems design, manufacturing, certification, and maintenance in the investigation of aircraft aviation accidents and incidents.
- →Serves as Systems Group Chairperson on accidents and incidents investigated by the Safety Board.
- →Leads special investigations and provides technical support for the Board.
- →Prepares group factual notes that summarize the collection of findings of the assigned investigative group(s) at on-site investigations and during the follow-up testing or detailed documentation.
- →Identifies and develops requirements for post-accident examinations and investigations.
- →Develops appropriate test plans and leads investigative groups.
- →Researches and develops appropriate safety recommendations to correct hazardous or unsafe conditions.
- →Prepares comprehensive, factual conclusion for the Safety Board's accident report with particular emphasis on the accuracy of factual information and the logic of analyses of the evidence from the investigation.
- →Physical Demands: Occasionally the aircraft wreckage may contain hazardous materials that may be burning by the time the investigator arrives on-the-scene.
- →The incumbent may be exposed to a variety of weather conditions and other environmental discomforts such as remote, rugged, snow, rain, temperature extremes, swampy or mountainous areas and hostile settings.
- →Investigators may have to wear a hardhat, safety shoes, goggles, gloves, and other protective equipment.
- →Work Environment: The incumbent supports major go-team launches as well as significant international investigations.
- →Major go-team launch teams commonly travel on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) jet from Reagan National Airport within two hours after an accident notification is received.
- →Timely arrival at the scene of a major accident allows for timely documentation of a wreckage; a delay in this effort can have significant impacts, such as impeding the re-opening of an airport.
Requirements
- ✓EDUCATION: A. 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree in professional engineering.
- ✓OR 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 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 that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A.
- ✓The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A above. 4.
- ✓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 related curricula are not all-inclusive.) You MUST provide either official or unofficial transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims.
- ✓All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.
- ✓GENERAL EDUCATION: All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at an institution that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education for it to be credited towards qualifications.
Personality Fit
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