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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.
04/01/2025 to 04/10/2025
$94,544 - $146,571 per year
Salary does not include locality payment. Locality will be based on duty location. See Additional Information for duty locations.
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Yes—Per agency policy
Occasional travel - The job may require travel from time-to-time, but not on a regular basis. The travel may be for training or other work-related duties.
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Permanent
Full-time
Excepted
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Yes - 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
ASW-AIR-25-CJR182-94773
834466700
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.
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:
Specialized Experience: To qualify for this position, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the FV-I, FG/GS-13 level. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position and is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled.
At least one year of specialized experience, at the next lower level, includes:
-Experience with performing Functional Hazard Analysis (FHAs) and System Safety assessments;
-Experience with integrated aircraft level systems;
-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.
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.
Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
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.
Make sure your resume includes detailed information to support your qualifications and answers to the job questionnaire.
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.
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. Employee will report to an FAA facility.
Only the following duty locations are available:
FAA's CORE COMPENSATION PLAN This position is covered by the FAA Core Compensation plan. Additional information about core compensation is available at: http://jobs.faa.gov/FAACoreCompensation.html
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
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
IMPORTANT: Applicants may be rated on the extent and quality of experience, education, and training relevant to the duties of the position(s). All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantiated. Ensure that your application package/resume supports your responses.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING EDUCATION:
Transcripts are not required from current FAA employees who have occupied an Engineering position in the FAA. If you are not a current FAA employee in an Engineering position or other career field with a minimum education requirement, you MUST submit a copy of your unofficial college transcript(s) or a list of courses, grades earned, completion date, and quarter and semester hours earned by the closing date of this announcement. If selected, official transcripts will be required. 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/admins/finaid/accred/index.html
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
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