General Engineer

$143,913

Patuxent River, MarylandFull-timePosted Oct 27, 2026

Against the United States typical range

Job description

You will serve as a Sr. Project Management Engineer for the Naval Aviation Enterprise as a Lead Analyst for Combat Survivability Modeling and Simulation, which is located in the Systems Engineering Department of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division.

Responsibilities

for this position include the development and review of technical documentation, providing authoritative engineering input to ensure technical requirements are met, and translating project plans into trackable milestones.

In addition to meeting BASIC REQUIREMENTS for this General Engineer DP-0801-05 position, your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the STRL DP-04 Pay Band or equivalent GS Grade Level (GS-12/13) in the Federal Service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Examples of specialized experience for this position include: (1) Providing advanced and integrated working of knowledge, skills, and facilities to define, measure, and improve aviation systems combat survivability, characterize threat systems lethality, and enable the design of combat survivable platforms and weapons; (2) Ensuring existing, new, and modified aviation systems survive current and projected threats; (3) Developing, improving, maintaining, and applying processes relating to the survivability of aviation systems in support of agency mission; (4) Coordinating with program stakeholders develop immediate and future solutions for relevant combat survivability technology (ballistic and directed energy vulnerability and susceptibility) development; and (5) Directing the planning of resources to accomplish assigned program goals and objectives.

For more education and qualification information, please refer to the following Office of Personnel Management websites: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.

pdf Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

A school transcript (official or unofficial) should be submitted to substantiate your claim in meeting above education requirement for this position. Applicants who do not provide supporting documentation that fully support their education claims will not be referred to the hiring manager. Additionally, applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: 0801 Occupational Series: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree.

To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.

Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. OR Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), 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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org OR Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 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 The FE examination is not administered by the U.

S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/Howto. Get. Licensed/index.html. OR Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above).

The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above) OR Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least one year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance.

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. For more education and qualification information, please refer to the following Office of Personnel Management websites: https://www.

opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf

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