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Supervisory General Engineer
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration · Posted 5 days ago
Hybrid Full-time Washington, DC $169K – $197K Apply by Jul 6, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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The New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) Division provides national and international leadership in planning, developing, initiating, and conducting new and innovative consumer information programs. The primary objective of the Division is to develop and coordinate the dissemination of consumer information on various aspects of motor vehicle and occupant protection systems that may induce market forces to enhance crash protection to adult and child occupants and vulnerable road users.
What You'll Do
- →As a Supervisory General Engineer, you will: The incumbent, as Division Chief, conceives, plans, directs, and supervises a series of engineering programs to develop and improve laboratory or full-scale crash test procedures for frontal, and side crash modes, test data collection, and information dissemination to fulfill legislative mandates.
- →The incumbent serves as a national expert on crashworthiness and crash avoidance technologies in vehicles and safety assessment of these systems, occupant protection, marketing of consumer information, and consumer behavior.
- →Duties of the incumbent are listed below: Develops and recommends the rationale and approach for testing passenger motor vehicles and associated equipment to assess crash avoidance capabilities, occupant crash protection, and vulnerable road user protection.
- →Insures that the test results are accurate, timely, and presented in a fashion that will be beneficial and helpful to consumers in their vehicle purchasing.
- →Assists consumers, members of Congress and other government and private organizations at the Federal, State, and local levels in understanding the agency's consumer information crash test and occupant and vulnerable road user protection programs.
- →Assists in developing an information network to provide consumers with information on occupant protection.
- →Provides advanced engineering assessments on the Division's programs and formulates recommendations for the agency's top management, senior technical personnel inside and outside of the agency, other government agencies, and cooperating outside organizations.
- →The incumbent is responsible for successful accomplishment of the Division's programs, attainment of technical goals, adherence to the budget, and timely performance.
- →In this capacity, the incumbent recommends the annual budget for the Division activities, develops detailed multi-year plans in coordination with other parts of the agency, and provides technical guidance to a staff of multi-disciplinary engineers and program analysts.
- →The Ideal Candidate Statement: This position is perfect for innovative, process driven, detail oriented, and seasoned professionals seeking a position that will provide an opportunity to utilize strong leadership skills and technical expertise in the area of vehicle safety testing within a great Federal agency whose focus involves public safety.
- →We are seeking highly qualified individuals who are willing to meet the fast-paced challenges of public service while supporting our mission to reduce the number of fatalities and injuries resulting from motor vehicle crashes.
- →NHTSA desires someone who is a highly motivated self-starter who can effectively communicate both within the agency and with external stakeholders.
- →Exhibiting a strong interest and ability to develop highly capable staff engineers that can execute testing programs in NCAP and communicate the results to the public, will be key to the success of the chosen candidate.
Requirements
- ✓CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will 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.
- ✓BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION: You may be required to complete a background/security investigation and meet preliminary requirements prior to onboarding.
- ✓SUPERVISORY PROBATIONARY PERIOD: You must complete a one-year supervisory probationary period (unless already completed).
- ✓PROBATIONARY PERIOD: You must complete a one-year probationary period (unless already completed).
- ✓TIME-IN-GRADE: Federal applicants must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade in the competitive or excepted service in the executive branch to satisfy time-in-grade restrictions contained in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F.
- ✓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.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
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