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General Engineer
Federal Aviation Administration · Posted 52 days ago
Hybrid Washington, DC $128K – $198K Apply by Aug 3, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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This position is located in the Air Traffic Organization (ATO), Safety Service Unit, Policy & Performance Directorate, Safety Performance Group (AJl-3400). This group creates and manages safety performance metrics and incorporates human performance management programs, data, and efforts to maximize safety performance.
What You'll Do
- →The General Engineer applies experience and comprehensive knowledge of several engineering disciplines such as Systems, Computer, and Safety engineering to evaluate and analyze National Airspace Systems (NAS) and equipment, including procedures and software, to develop safety performance metrics.
- →Plans and accomplishes highly complex and challenging projects/programs and other work activities under the minimal direction of the team manager or more experienced engineer.
- →This work directly affects the Safety Service Unit, the Air Traffic Organization (ATO), and the strategic goals of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
- →Applies extensive experience and comprehensive knowledge of engineering principles, theories, and new technologies to study and evaluate NAS systems and equipment.
- →Facilitates decision-making by analyzing trend data and simulations to identify safety risks.
- →Solves complex engineering problems and improves engineering processes, metrics, and measurements.
- →Analyzes calculations and computations to evaluate safety performance targets.
- →Conducts safety and performance assessments of NAS systems, operations and procedures, including communication systems, peripheral control systems and business architectures to develop safety data and to analyze information through the use of dashboards, advanced analytics, collaboration environments, visualizations, and briefings.
- →Establishes data management and analysis methods to provide the components necessary for capturing, tracking, and learning from safety risk management efforts and to facilitate safety performance target monitoring for NAS systems and equipment.
- →As a principal technical specialist or as a project/program manager or team leader for large work activities, the engineer uses experience applying project/program management principles to support the Safety Management Tracking System (SMTS) by gathering and managing system requirements for SMTS.
- →Leads teams in the analysis and assessment of safety data to identify trends, risks, and areas for improvement in safety measures.
- →Develops detailed documentation of requirements to ensure configuration management and traceability.
- →Interprets equipment performance data to provide advice and to recommend changes in the ATO Safety Management System (SMS) Manual and related policies.
- →Contacts are internal and external.
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.
- ✓BASIC REQUIREMENTS: To qualify for this position, you must have a degree in professional engineering.
- ✓OR 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 professional 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: 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.
Personality Fit
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