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General Engineer - DIRECT HIRE
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · Posted 5 days ago
Hybrid Full-time Washington, DC $102K – $187K Apply by Jul 7, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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You will serve as a General Engineer/Safety Compliance Engineer in the Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance (OVSC). You would be responsible for helping to enforce one or more Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards by managing and executing a compliance test program including overseeing compliance tests and conducting safety investigations. In addition, you will be responsible for conducting business in a manner that complies with NHTSA's internal business processes and policies.
What You'll Do
- →Conduct extensive investigations to determine whether a noncompliance exists.
- →This will involve analyzing technical motor vehicle equipment test data, reviewing certifications, making recommendations, creating detailed documentation, and providing through written account of the investigation.
- →Provide technical and administrative support to facilitate the contracting and execution of complex engineering programs at contract test laboratories, including writing test reports.
- →Create complex test procedures to fully evaluate and assess whether motor vehicle equipment is sufficiently robust to comply with all applicable requirements.
- →Make presentations to upper management, presenting all the assembled data and making recommendations about how to proceed.
- →Act as Enforcement's representative on teams that conduct research and/or rulemaking to amend existing standards and promulgate new FMVSS and Regulations.
- →The ideal candidate for this position is highly self-motivated, possesses sound engineering judgement, has demonstrated knowledge and expertise in engineering, and has significant expertise working in a testing environment, preferably in the automotive field.
- →The candidate should be capable of working cooperatively with other divisions within NHTSA and with organizations within the motor vehicle industry to accomplish the agency's goal of improved safety.
- →The candidate should be detail oriented, well organized, and have strong verbal and writing skills.
- →As part of their daily responsibilities, the candidate should be willing to complete intensive paperwork, occasionally handle stressful situations involving highly visible matters with significant public interest, and manage conflict situations tactfully.
- →Furthermore, the candidate should have the ability to manage their own workload of multiple projects, conduct safety investigations, set priorities, meet deadlines, communicate complex technical concepts verbally and in writing.
Requirements
- ✓CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance the organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓SELECTIVE SERVICE: Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for the Selective Service.
- ✓GOVERNMENT TRAVEL CARD: This position involves travel.
- ✓A government contractor-issued travel card will be issued and must be retained for official business only.
- ✓WRITING SAMPLE: Applicants may need to provide a writing sample they have authored.
- ✓Applicants may be asked to respond to one or more questions in writing during the interview.
- ✓BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION: You will be required to complete a background/security investigation and meet preliminary requirements prior to onboarding.
- ✓DEU REQUIREMENTS: Applicants selected under delegated examining procedures may be required to successfully complete a one-year probationary period (unless already completed).
- ✓PROBATIONARY PERIOD: You must complete a one-year probationary period (unless already completed).
- ✓MANDATORY EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: A.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
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