Summary The position serves as a System Safety Integration Specialist in the Integration Certificate Management Division (AIR-500), Aircraft Certification Service (AIR). The position plans and accomplishes highly complex and challenging projects/programs involving the entire aircraft system, and operational safety impact and other work activities under the minimal direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or other experienced engineer. Responsibilities Applies experience and comprehensive knowledge of engineering principles, theories, and concepts applicable to aircraft systems and operational safety impact. The System Safety Integration Specialist position will be responsible to oversee the entire aircraft system and operational safety impact to help ensure that complex systems incorporated into the aircraft level system architecture meet the system safety assurance levels in accordance with the FAA's policies, guidance and airworthiness regulations. Contacts are internal and external. Facilitates/leads cross-discipline, including across lines of business, and reviews/has communications to ensure aircraft level system safety fully encompasses compliance to meet FAA regulatory airworthiness requirements. Leads early and regularly gated multi-disciplined system safety reviews with certification engineering/design and operational groups to help assess that system safety requirements are being met. Identifies aircraft level higher risk integration areas that need increased FAA oversight/involvement with all applicable FAA lines of business within and outside of AIR. Works closely with the assigned Program Manager (PM) to support and help proactively address system safety integration issues/challenges, such as the evaluation of human factors and flight test evaluation results against the applicant System Safety Assessments (SSAs) to validate SSA assumptions. Identifies that applicant has properly robust aircraft system development processes for System Safety Assessments (SSAs). Verifies that change impact safety assessments are comprehensive and thorough. Work is reviewed rarely, typically through status reports and at project completion, to ensure technical compliance and alignment with the requirements of the project or other work activity. Work activities impact directly on the objectives of the organization, subdivisions and/or LOB/SOs and has an impact on the objectives of the FAA. The work affects the safety and security of customers. Other duties as assigned. Requirements Conditions of Employment We are not accepting applications from noncitizens. Qualifications Basic Requirements: Successful completion of a full four-year professional engineering curriculum leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in engineering in an accredited college or university. To be acceptable the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the ABET as a professional engineering curriculum; 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); (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics; OR, ALTERNATIVE REQUIREMENTS: 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 professional 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: Professional registration: Current registration as a professional engineer by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico; Written Test: Evidence of having successfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for professional registration, which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico; Specified academic courses: 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. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph A; Related curriculum: - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Specialized Experience: In addition to the basic requirements, all applicants must demonstrate at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade (FV-I FG/GS-13) in the Federal government. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. (Applicants must include examples of specialized experience in their work history). Specialized experience must include: - Experience with performing Functional Hazard Analysis (FHAs) and System Safety assessments. - Experience in reviewing System Safety Assessments (SSAs) at the systems and aircraft level. - Experience with System Development Assurance (SDAs) processes, and with performing SDA reviews. - Experience applying operational relationship between human factors, flight test, alerting systems and System Safety Assessments (SSAs) to validate SSA assumptions. - Experience as an aircraft pilot or equivalent knowledge. Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement. 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 To view the full qualification requirements for this position, go to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), General Schedule Qualification Standards, Professional and Scientific Positions: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Group-Standards Also, to view the full Individual Occupational Requirements for entry into this occupation, visit the following OPM webpage: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf 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 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. Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the KSAs listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category rating, or priority grouping 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. Applications will be accepted from any U.S. citizen. On-the-Spot will be used to fill this position. The 'Rule of Three', Veterans Preference and traditional rating and ranking of applicants does not apply to this vacancy. This position is located in AIR-573. However, this vacancy announcement may be used to fill future vacancies in any of the other AIR 500 Division Offices or Duty Stations. Duty location/locality pay will be determined based on selection for one of the locations listed on this vacancy announcement. Only the following locations will be considered: Burlington, MA – 31.97% Fort Worth, TX – 26.91% Des Moines, WA – 30.81% Westbury, NY – 37.24% Hapeville, GA – 23.45% Des Plaines, IL -30.41% Lakewood, CA – 35.84% Wichita, KS – 16.82% Washington, DC -33.26% Kansas City, MO – 18.65% Oklahoma City, OK – 16.82% Anchorage, AK -31.96% Denver, CO – 29.88% Security Requirement: Moderate Risk (5). This position requires completion and favorable adjudication of a background investigation prior to appointment, unless a waiver is obtained. Subject to a 5-year period reinvestigation. Interview Statement: The Agency may choose to interview one, some, none, or all candidates from the selection certificate or any other valid recruitment/referral list submitted. Incomplete Applications: Please ensure you answer all questions and follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may impact your rating or may result in you not being considered for the job. This position is eligible but not in a bargaining unit. Links to Important Information: Locality Pay , COLA