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Supervisory General Engineer (Division Chief)
National Transportation Safety Board · Posted 4 days ago
Hybrid Washington, DC $169K – $197K Apply by Sep 25, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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This position is located in the Office of Research and Engineering, Vehicle Recorder Division. The incumbent of this position will be the Division Chief in charge of supervising a staff who conduct and coordinate readouts and analysis of aircraft flight data and cockpit voice recorders, marine voyage data recorders, railroad event data recorders, all mode image, video and photographic analysis and electronic downloads of other transportation vehicles.
What You'll Do
- →As a Supervisory General Engineer (Division Chief),GS-0801-15, you will perform the following major duties: Plans, implements, and delegates the work assignments to the branch chiefs and computational tools developer, and performs supervisory oversight to review the work, and work processes of subordinates.
- →Ensures the technical accuracy and timely completion of reports, studies, and other work products.
- →Manages the overall personnel functions of the division, including recruitment and selection of candidates for direct report positions; coordination with branch chiefs for development and implementation of the division training plan.
- →Serves as the NTSB's primary technical expert in vehicle recorder technology and data analysis.
- →Develops and implements strategic and long-term plans.
- →Initiates, maintains, and exchanges information with other federal agencies and international organizations, industry, labor, trade, and other interested officials through meetings, conferences, seminars, letters, reports, studies, briefings, and other similar methods.
Requirements
- ✓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.
Benefits
- ★The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes, in part, paid vacation, sick leave, holidays and various benefits as well as work life amenities such as alternate work schedules, telework, flextime, fitness and transit benefits.
Personality Fit
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