Lead Electrical Engineer
Summary The Electrical Engineer is a recognized expert within the FAA for National Airspace System (NAS) power policy, national electrical codes and standards, and power system design, construction, commissioning, and life-cycle sustainment.
Has a direct responsibility for project/ program management.
Ensures that the organizations strategic plan, mission, vision and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the teams' strategies, goals, objectives, work plans, products and services.
Responsibilities Leads an interdisciplinary team responsible for national oversight of FAA electrical power system design integrity, development of design standards and processes, and detailed engineering design reviews.
Provides leadership for highly complex and challenging activities under the minimal direction of a manager or an executive.
Articulates and communicates to the team the assignment, project, problem to be solved, actionable events, milestones, and/or program issues under review, and deadlines and time frames for completion.
Lead the development of technical requirements to be included in acquisition strategies for NAS power system design, equipment, and installation services.
Provides oversight of national risk mitigation and site implementation plans for electrical construction projects to ensure compliance with Operational Risk Management (ORM) principles.
Coaches the team in the selection and application of appropriate problem-solving methods and techniques, provide advice on work methods, practices and procedures, and assist the team and/or individual members in identifying the parameters of a viable solution.
Trains or arranges for the training of team members in methods and techniques of team building and working in teams to accomplish tasks or projects and provide or arrange for specific administrative or technical training necessary for accomplishment of individual and team tasks.
Serves as coach, facilitator and/or negotiator in coordinating team initiatives and in consensus building activities among team members.
Leads the team in assessing its strengths and weaknesses and provide leadership to the team in exploring alternatives and determining needed improvements.
The Electrical Engineer serves as a team lead responsible for leading the team in identifying, distributing and balancing workload and tasks among employees in accordance with established workflow, skill level and/or occupational specialization; making adjustments to accomplish the workload in accordance with established priorities to ensure timely accomplishment of assigned team tasks; and ensuring that each employee has an integral role in developing the final team product.
Acts as a technical expert to develop new and innovative concepts, approaches, methodologies, techniques, and policies, and as a team leader for large, challenging work activities.
Applies experience and expert knowledge of electrical engineering principles, theories, and concepts as well as an understanding of new technologies and methodologies to perform critical tasks that require the development of new concepts or innovative approaches.
Defines FAA electrical power policy to establish requirements for power systems and equipment that fulfill the reliability, availability, and maintainability needs of NAS Enterprise Architecture.
Performs electrical engineering analysis and evaluation of power distribution systems.
Provide guidance in the production of specific project engineering procedures or documents based on organizational goals and requirements.
Identifies and resolves highly complex electrical and systems problems or issues, which often cross-organizational boundaries and impact on the accomplishment of the FAA's strategic objectives.
Also predicts potential issues and proposes recommendations for preventive action.
Applies knowledge of FAA's policies and objectives to identify, define, and organize work for multiple work activities.
Acquires and allocates resources to accomplish work activities within established schedules.
Monitors and reports on the status and progress of work, checking on work in progress and reviewing completed work to see that the supervisors' instructions on work priorities, methods, deadlines and quality have been met.
Estimate and report to the team on progress in meeting established milestones and deadlines for completion of assignments, projects and tasks.
Requirements Conditions of Employment We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.
Qualifications In addition to meeting the educational requirements specified below:
You must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the FV-J, FG/GS-14 level.
This experience is typically related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.
To be creditable, specialized experience must have been at least equivalent to the next lower level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.
Specialized experience is defined as:
Experience defining electrical power policy to establish requirements for power systems and equipment that fulfill the reliability, availability, and maintainability.
Experience monitoring risk mitigation and site implementation plans for electrical construction projects to ensure compliance with Operational Risk Management (ORM) principles.
Answer all questions to the best of your ability.
DO NOT ASSUME THAT BECAUSE YOU HOLD, OR HAVE HELD THIS POSITION, YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE FOUND ELIGIBLE.
You may be asked to provide evidence or documentation that you have this type of experience later in the selection process.
Your responses are subject to verification through job interviews, or any other information obtained during the application process.
Any exaggeration of your experience or any attempt to conceal information can result in disqualification.
Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and/or selective placement factor(s) (SPF) may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) and/or Quality Ranking Factor (QRF) listed in the announcement.
Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories:
(1) score order; (2) category grouping; (3) alphabetical; or (4) priority grouping and referred to the selecting official for selection consideration.
Applicants who fail to demonstrate possession of any of the above criteria AND who do not provide the required documentation will receive no further consideration for this position.
Applicants may be asked to verify information on your application for employment with the FAA.
All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
Education 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:
A.
Degree:
Engineering.
To be acceptable, the program must:
(1) lead to a bachelors degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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.
OR B.
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.
Related curriculum -- 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 bachelors degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 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.
(The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.
) If you are a current or former Federal employee, and you currently hold or previously held a position classified in the 0800 occupational series, you are not required to submit a college transcript provided you upload a copy of the SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action, verifying your classification in the 0800 occupational series.
Applicants, who are not currently in the 0800 occupational series in the Federal Government and fail to provide a copy of an unofficial or official transcript will not receive further consideration for this vacancy.
Upon selection, if not currently employed in the 0800 occupational series, you will be required to submit an official transcript prior to appointment.
If you do not have an official transcript (original, with the raised seal), you should contact your school immediately to request it.
Foreign Education:
For additional information, visit:
http:
//www.
ed.
gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.
html Additional Information We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions.
Position may be subject to a background investigation.
A one-year probationary period may be required.
The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days of entry on duty.
FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviation-related companies.
www.
faa.
gov/jobs/working_here/financial_disclosure_requirements The U.
S.
Department of Transportation strives to ensure that equity, transparency, accountability, collaboration, and communication permeate all that we do for the betterment of the Department, the traveling public, and our nation.
As such, DOT values a highly diverse workforce of persons who promote a culture of belonging by respecting the personal dignity and worth of each individual and fostering a positive environment where all feel safe and welcome.
If these commitments coincide with your personal ideals and professional aspirations, please consider joining the DOT family.
This position is covered by the Department of Transportation's Drug and Alcohol Testing Program.
Any applicant tentatively selected for this position will be subject to pre-employment or pre-appointment drug screening.
Persons occupying a testing designated position (TDP) will be subject to random drug and/or alcohol testing.
As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements.
Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.
In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA), in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA.
Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability.
Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided.
Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate.
The selecting official may decide to interview all, some or none of the candidates referred for consideration.
This position is covered by the FAA Core Compensation plan.
Additional information about core compensation is available on the following website:
http:
//jobs.
faa.
gov/FAACoreCompensation.
htm.
This Level 2 (Non-Critical Sensitive) position requires favorable T3 (Tier 3) or higher (T5) investigation for Secret clearances, unless a waiver is obtained.
This is not a bargaining unit position.
Links to Important Information:
Locality Pay , COLA Recommended Skills Administration Architecture Aviation Coaching And Mentoring Construction Electronics Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Has a direct responsibility for project/ program management.
Ensures that the organizations strategic plan, mission, vision and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the teams' strategies, goals, objectives, work plans, products and services.
Responsibilities Leads an interdisciplinary team responsible for national oversight of FAA electrical power system design integrity, development of design standards and processes, and detailed engineering design reviews.
Provides leadership for highly complex and challenging activities under the minimal direction of a manager or an executive.
Articulates and communicates to the team the assignment, project, problem to be solved, actionable events, milestones, and/or program issues under review, and deadlines and time frames for completion.
Lead the development of technical requirements to be included in acquisition strategies for NAS power system design, equipment, and installation services.
Provides oversight of national risk mitigation and site implementation plans for electrical construction projects to ensure compliance with Operational Risk Management (ORM) principles.
Coaches the team in the selection and application of appropriate problem-solving methods and techniques, provide advice on work methods, practices and procedures, and assist the team and/or individual members in identifying the parameters of a viable solution.
Trains or arranges for the training of team members in methods and techniques of team building and working in teams to accomplish tasks or projects and provide or arrange for specific administrative or technical training necessary for accomplishment of individual and team tasks.
Serves as coach, facilitator and/or negotiator in coordinating team initiatives and in consensus building activities among team members.
Leads the team in assessing its strengths and weaknesses and provide leadership to the team in exploring alternatives and determining needed improvements.
The Electrical Engineer serves as a team lead responsible for leading the team in identifying, distributing and balancing workload and tasks among employees in accordance with established workflow, skill level and/or occupational specialization; making adjustments to accomplish the workload in accordance with established priorities to ensure timely accomplishment of assigned team tasks; and ensuring that each employee has an integral role in developing the final team product.
Acts as a technical expert to develop new and innovative concepts, approaches, methodologies, techniques, and policies, and as a team leader for large, challenging work activities.
Applies experience and expert knowledge of electrical engineering principles, theories, and concepts as well as an understanding of new technologies and methodologies to perform critical tasks that require the development of new concepts or innovative approaches.
Defines FAA electrical power policy to establish requirements for power systems and equipment that fulfill the reliability, availability, and maintainability needs of NAS Enterprise Architecture.
Performs electrical engineering analysis and evaluation of power distribution systems.
Provide guidance in the production of specific project engineering procedures or documents based on organizational goals and requirements.
Identifies and resolves highly complex electrical and systems problems or issues, which often cross-organizational boundaries and impact on the accomplishment of the FAA's strategic objectives.
Also predicts potential issues and proposes recommendations for preventive action.
Applies knowledge of FAA's policies and objectives to identify, define, and organize work for multiple work activities.
Acquires and allocates resources to accomplish work activities within established schedules.
Monitors and reports on the status and progress of work, checking on work in progress and reviewing completed work to see that the supervisors' instructions on work priorities, methods, deadlines and quality have been met.
Estimate and report to the team on progress in meeting established milestones and deadlines for completion of assignments, projects and tasks.
Requirements Conditions of Employment We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.
Qualifications In addition to meeting the educational requirements specified below:
You must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the FV-J, FG/GS-14 level.
This experience is typically related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.
To be creditable, specialized experience must have been at least equivalent to the next lower level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.
Specialized experience is defined as:
Experience defining electrical power policy to establish requirements for power systems and equipment that fulfill the reliability, availability, and maintainability.
Experience monitoring risk mitigation and site implementation plans for electrical construction projects to ensure compliance with Operational Risk Management (ORM) principles.
Answer all questions to the best of your ability.
DO NOT ASSUME THAT BECAUSE YOU HOLD, OR HAVE HELD THIS POSITION, YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE FOUND ELIGIBLE.
You may be asked to provide evidence or documentation that you have this type of experience later in the selection process.
Your responses are subject to verification through job interviews, or any other information obtained during the application process.
Any exaggeration of your experience or any attempt to conceal information can result in disqualification.
Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and/or selective placement factor(s) (SPF) may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) and/or Quality Ranking Factor (QRF) listed in the announcement.
Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories:
(1) score order; (2) category grouping; (3) alphabetical; or (4) priority grouping and referred to the selecting official for selection consideration.
Applicants who fail to demonstrate possession of any of the above criteria AND who do not provide the required documentation will receive no further consideration for this position.
Applicants may be asked to verify information on your application for employment with the FAA.
All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
Education 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:
A.
Degree:
Engineering.
To be acceptable, the program must:
(1) lead to a bachelors degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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.
OR B.
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.
Related curriculum -- 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 bachelors degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 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.
(The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.
) If you are a current or former Federal employee, and you currently hold or previously held a position classified in the 0800 occupational series, you are not required to submit a college transcript provided you upload a copy of the SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action, verifying your classification in the 0800 occupational series.
Applicants, who are not currently in the 0800 occupational series in the Federal Government and fail to provide a copy of an unofficial or official transcript will not receive further consideration for this vacancy.
Upon selection, if not currently employed in the 0800 occupational series, you will be required to submit an official transcript prior to appointment.
If you do not have an official transcript (original, with the raised seal), you should contact your school immediately to request it.
Foreign Education:
For additional information, visit:
http:
//www.
ed.
gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.
html Additional Information We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions.
Position may be subject to a background investigation.
A one-year probationary period may be required.
The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days of entry on duty.
FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviation-related companies.
www.
faa.
gov/jobs/working_here/financial_disclosure_requirements The U.
S.
Department of Transportation strives to ensure that equity, transparency, accountability, collaboration, and communication permeate all that we do for the betterment of the Department, the traveling public, and our nation.
As such, DOT values a highly diverse workforce of persons who promote a culture of belonging by respecting the personal dignity and worth of each individual and fostering a positive environment where all feel safe and welcome.
If these commitments coincide with your personal ideals and professional aspirations, please consider joining the DOT family.
This position is covered by the Department of Transportation's Drug and Alcohol Testing Program.
Any applicant tentatively selected for this position will be subject to pre-employment or pre-appointment drug screening.
Persons occupying a testing designated position (TDP) will be subject to random drug and/or alcohol testing.
As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements.
Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.
In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA), in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA.
Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability.
Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided.
Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate.
The selecting official may decide to interview all, some or none of the candidates referred for consideration.
This position is covered by the FAA Core Compensation plan.
Additional information about core compensation is available on the following website:
http:
//jobs.
faa.
gov/FAACoreCompensation.
htm.
This Level 2 (Non-Critical Sensitive) position requires favorable T3 (Tier 3) or higher (T5) investigation for Secret clearances, unless a waiver is obtained.
This is not a bargaining unit position.
Links to Important Information:
Locality Pay , COLA Recommended Skills Administration Architecture Aviation Coaching And Mentoring Construction Electronics Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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