Summary The position is an Electronics Engineer in the Air Traffic Safety Operations Oversight Division (AOV-200) of the Air Traffic Safety Oversight Service (AOV). Responsible for collaborating and leading a variety of engineering tasks to support the oversight of the Air Traffic Organization (ATO). Responsibilities The Electronics Engineer plans and accomplishes highly complex and challenging projects/programs and other work activities under the minimal direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced engineer. Provides electronics engineering guidance and instructions on a range of issues related to risk assessments and technical reviews and impact on AOV. Applies experience and comprehensive knowledge of electronics engineering theories, principles, concepts, standards, and methods required to solve highly complex problems and evaluate the development and implementation of new systems or modifications to improve the reliability, maintainability, and safety of National Airspace System (NAS) systems, equipment, and facilities. Provides engineering analysis and support to the NAS by evaluating existing/proposed policies, standards, requirements, and objectives. Identifies the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. Uses experience and knowledge of the NAS technical equipment, services, and operations used for air traffic control (i.e., power, surveillance, communication, automation, weather, and navigational aids equipment among others). Conducts AOV's surveillance activities involving NAS services and equipment operations. Compiles and analyzes events and incidents data from technical equipment, services, operations, and procedures used for air traffic control. Analyzes information/data and evaluates results for developing new concepts, systems, and innovative approaches to identify and resolve complex issues that often cross organizational boundaries. As a principal technical engineer, may lead, conduct or participate in surveillance activities to measure and determine compliance with established orders, rules, procedures, and policies while promoting continued operational safety. Monitors safety data of assigned areas and recommends changes that will improve technical and operational safety. Assesses mitigation strategies relevant to the compliance of the International Civil Aviation Organization (IACO) and FAA documents and communicate technical information to diverse audiences. Identifies, evaluates, and monitors information for potential risks within the engineering processes. Draws on experience using comparable situations and existing criteria to develop conclusions to resolve unusual problems and scenarios, and may create new solutions and policy interpretations as requires. Uses knowledge of the NAS equipment, Technical Operations procedures and programs, and safety management system principles and programs to perform operational audits and assessments of the ATO and to ensure compliance with air traffic service's safety standards and the ATO Safety Management System (SMS). Performs data research for developing criteria within approved guidelines to identify local and system trends, anomalies, and hazards by evaluating data and collaborating with counterparts in AOV, other Aviation Safety organizations, the ATO, and external entities. Analyzes and compiles data from events and incidents in the NAS. Addresses emerging safety risks with the ATO's workforce, and systems equipment in air traffic facilities, utilizing experience gained supporting the NAS in a wide variety of positions such as Airway Transportation Systems Specialists (ATSS), engineering services, flight check specialists, among others to prevent safety hazards. Contacts are internal and external. Often represents FAA as a senior technical point of contact on projects, programs and other work activities. Communicates results to all levels internally (within an LOB/SO or across LOB's/SO's) and externally. Plays a lead role in drafting, reviewing, and editing reports or contractual documents for final approval prior to external distribution. Requirements Conditions of Employment We are not accepting applications from noncitizens. Qualifications To view the complete OPM qualification standard for the Group Coverage Qualification Standard for General Engineer, Series 801, please refer to: -https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801/ A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s 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 bachelor’s 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 To qualify for this position you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I, FG/GS 13. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Specialized experience includes: Experience identifying, evaluating, and monitoring information and engineering risk areas and conducting safety risk audits or assessments. Experience analyzing and compiling data from events and incidents. Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration. 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. 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/workinghere/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. Leave Enhancement: FAA organizations may offer enhanced annual leave accrual to newly appointed or reappointed employees. In order to receive consideration for such a benefit, applicants' prior non-Federal service or active duty uniformed service must directly relate to the duties of the position to which appointed. Granting enhanced annual leave is at the sole discretion of the hiring organization, and granting such benefit is not an entitlement nor guaranteed to any newly hired employee. 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, Skill, Ability (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. Current and former federal employees must submit their most recent SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action. This is not a bargaining unit position. Links to Important Information: Locality Pay , COLA