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INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER/SCIENTIST
Naval Air Systems Command · Posted 2 days ago
Hybrid China Lake, CA $147K – $197K Apply by Jun 30, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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You will serve as an Interdisciplinary Engineer/Scientist in the Weapons and Energetics Department of NAVAIRWARCENWPNDIV CHINA LAKE.
What You'll Do
- →You will serve as the Chief Engineer (CHENG) of the Weapons and Energetics Department, serving as the technical conscience of the D/E55 department.
- →You will be responsible for the promotion, mentorship, and workforce development of Subject Matter Experts and Deputy Technical Warrant Holders across Weapons and Targets subdisciplines.
- →You will be responsible for hosting and chairing SETR events at NAWCWD.
- →You will mentor engineers at an individual level and play a key role in developing the next generation of engineers at NAWCWD.
- →You will be required to have insight into the breadth and depth of technical activities in the Weapons and Energetics Department and provide technical input as necessary across the entire mission area.
Requirements
- ✓Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess 0801 Series: Successful completion of a degree in 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 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. 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.) 1310 Series: Successful completion of a degree in physics; or related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics.
- ✓OR A combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in physics totaling at least 24 semester hours, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
- ✓In either A or B above, the courses must have included a fundamental course in general physics and, in addition, courses in any two of the following: electricity and magnetism, heat, light, mechanics, modern physics, and sound. 1520 Series: Successful completion of a degree in mathematics; or the equivalent of a major that included at least 24 semester hours in mathematics.
- ✓OR A combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in mathematics (including at least 24 semester hours in mathematics), as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
Personality Fit
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