Electrical Engineer

Summary

Incumbent works in the field of electrical engineering and the position requires primary application of knowledge of (a) the physical and engineering sciences and mathematics, (b) electrical phenomena and (c) the principles, techniques and practices of electrical engineering.

Summary

Incumbent works in the field of electrical engineering and the position requires primary application of knowledge of (a) the physical and engineering sciences and mathematics, (b) electrical phenomena and (c) the principles, techniques and practices of electrical engineering.

Overview

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Accepting applications

Open & closing dates

08/15/2025 to 09/04/2025

Salary $52,998 to - $118,696 per year

Salary above is basic pay. Locality rate will be added based on duty location upon selection. See addtional information for locality rates.

Pay scale & grade FV G - I

Locations

Many vacancies in the following locations:

College Park, GA

Burlington, MA

Nashua, NH

Queens, NY

Telework eligible Yes-Situational telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy. Travel Required 76% or greater - The job may require 76% or more travel. Relocation expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted

Promotion potential

NA

Job family (Series)

• 0850 Electrical Engineering

Supervisory status No Security clearance Other Drug test No Bargaining unit status Yes - This position is represented by NATCA: Engineers & Architects.

Announcement number AEA-ATO-25-BKY-96009 Control number 843427400

This job is open to

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Federal employees - Competitive service

Current federal employees whose agencies follow the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's hiring rules and pay scales.

Federal employees - Excepted service

Current federal employees whose agencies have their own hiring rules, pay scales and evaluation criteria.

Veterans

Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces or a spouse, widow, widower or parent of a veteran, who may be eligible for derived preference

Clarification from the agency

Also open to former permanent excepted service federal employees eligible under an interchange agreement. Current or former permanent federal employees must have met a one year probationary period or trial period in the competitive or excepted service. Applications will also be accepted from preference eligibles and veterans who are honorably discharged from the Armed Forces after completing at least 3 years of continuous active duty service.

Duties

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Duties at the G band:

Performs a mixture of basic and routine (but progressively ore difficult) assignments under the close direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader or more experienced technical specialist.

Applies basic knowledge of engineering principles, theories, and concepts applicable to his/her discipline to accomplish assignments. Typical assignments may include: work pertaining primarily to electrical circuits, circuit elements, equipment, systems, and associated phenomena concerned with electrical production of energy localized for purposes electric such or as magnetic motive fields. power, heating, illumination, chemical processes, or the production of localized electric or magnetic fields.

Conducts routine project activities and technical surveys or inspections and prepare reports.

Duties at the H band:

Applies experience and detailed knowledge of electrical engineering principles, theories, and concepts applicable to the design, installation, maintenance, repair, overhaul and acquisition of systems required for establishing and maintaining safe efficient, productive and cost effective operations of the NAS. Reviews and work with construction contract documents; i.e., drawings specifications and contracts.

Typical assignments may include: design work; field inspections; reviewing contractor work; collecting and analyzing data; performing trend analyses; engineering testing; writing technical/management reports; and recommending improvements to the design or operation of systems, equipment, or processes.

Uses experience and knowledge of the Uniform Building Code (UBC), International Building Code (IBC), the

National Electrical code, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Lighting Protection Code, and the Institute of

Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Grounding Standards for electronic facilities to complete assignments. He/she

assures that assigned projects comply with applicable building codes and standards, including FAA Orders and directives

and is required to interact with personnel from other sections, field offices, private sector contractors, and other local and Federal government agencies.

Duties at the I band:

Incumbent conducts site surveys and site adaptation of standard engineering designs including developing and coordinating project scope, drawings and specifications, cost estimate, facility and NAS risk mitigation, Corporate Work Plan schedule, resource requirements and project closeout for assigned projects. The incumbent will be working on complex system designs. Estimates, manages and accounts for funding of assigned projects.

Incumbent estimates, manages and accounts for funding of assigned projects. Coordinates with internal and external project stakeholders to address design, construction and/or installation issues for Engineering Services.

Incumbent provides scope and estimates for assigned work. Maintains project budget and schedule, which involves coordination with planners, PIMS and national program offices.

Incumbent provides technical guidance to Contract On-site Representative (COR) on complex issues. Incumbent participates in design reviews and requirements, contractor selections and post implementation analysis of projects.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• US Citizenship is required.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must submit an SF50 (See Required Documents).
• This position has a positive education requirement. Transcript(s) required.

Qualifications

BASIC REQUIREMENT:

To qualify for this position, you must have a degree in professional 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 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.

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A 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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-inclusive.)

There is no specialized experience for the FV-G band.

To qualify for this position at the FV-H level, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-G or FG/GS-5/7/9 level. Specialized experience in power distribution, power panels, grounding, bonding and power systems.

To qualify for this position at the FV-I level, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-H or FG/GS-11/12 level. Specialized experience conducting the site surveys and site adaptation of standard engineering designs including developing and coordinating project scope and cost estimates.

For additional information on qualification requirements, please visit the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website at:

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.

For additional information on foreign education visit: .

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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

Locality will be added based on duty location for the following:

Atlanta, GA- 23.79%

Queens, NY - 37.95%

Burlington, MA - 32.58%

Nashua, NH - 32.58%

Interviews:

Some, all or none of the applicants may be interviewed.

Requirement for Security Clearance: Selection and placement are contingent upon waiver or completion of satisfactory security requirements. For Low Risk (1), 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.

FAA's Core Compensation Plan:

This position is covered by the FAA Core Compensation plan. Additional information about core compensation is available on the following website:

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.

In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each 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.

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Benefits

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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

How you will be evaluated

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.

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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.

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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

Required documents

Required Documents

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Only supplemental documentation will be accepted in combination with your online application. These documents must be uploaded to your USAJOBS profile on or before the closing date of this announcement.

Current or former federal employees must provide a copy of their SF-50 with the information below, NOT SF-52.

Applicants claiming eligibility for the Expanded Veterans Hiring Opportunity (EVHO), MUST submit a DD Form 214 reflecting character of service to verify eligibility by the closing date of the announcement as requested by the Human Resource Office. Eligibility for EVHO will be considered based on applicable documentation submitted by the closing date.

This position has a positive education requirement; college transcripts are required for ALL candidates newly appointed to the FAA in the 0800 (Engineering) series.

College transcripts must be submitted from current FAA employees applying for internal vacancies if they have never held a position in the 0800 (Engineering) series with the FAA.

College transcripts are not required from current FAA employees who are currently occupying an 0800 (Engineering) series.

If selected, official transcripts are required prior to employment.

If you are a current or former Federal employee (including a current FAA employee), you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) containing information in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organization of record by the closing date of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line application. If faxing the SF-50, please ensure you include the vacancy announcement number on the faxed copy.

If you are a current Federal employee and need a current copy of your SF-50, please contact your personnel office. If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system . If you are a former Federal employee, you can obtain a copy of your SF-50 by writing the National Personnel Records Center Annex, 1411 Boulder Boulevard, Valmeyer, IL 62295. Additional information is available from this link: .

Expanded Veterans Hiring Opportunity (EVHO) are preference eligibles and veterans who are honorably discharged from the Armed Forces after completing at least three (3) years of continuous active service. Applicants claiming eligibility for EVHO, MUST submit a DD Form 214 reflecting character of service to verify eligibility by the closing date of the announcement as requested by the Human Resource Office. Eligibility for EVHO will be considered based on applicable documentation submitted by the closing date.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

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.