Electrical Engineer

  • Naval Air Systems Command
  • Lakehurst, New Jersey
  • Full Time
You will serve as a E-2 Avionics Peculiar Support Equipment Lead Engineer in the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Support Equipment & Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment Group, Support Equipment Department, PEO (T) Division E-2C/D Avionics and Next Generation Jammer Support Equipment Branch of NAVAIRWARCENADLKE.Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the DP-04/GS-12/13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing some or all of the following duties:
1) Planning, designing and carrying out programs, projects, studies or other work related to the development, fielding and support of avionics Support Equipment, independently and in response to operational needs;
2) Conducting extensive investigations and analysis of largely undefined factors and conditions relating to avionics Support Equipment to determine the nature and scope of problems and to devise solutions;
3) Guiding others on matters related to design and development efforts of aircraft avionics Support Equipment used to test Communications, Navigation and Identification systems, RF systems, RADAR systems, communications systems, and other avionics sub-systems, as well as experience with computer based maintenance laptops and software loading Support Equipment;
4) Leading others in the design, selection, testing and integration of platform avionics Support Equipment;
5) Providing knowledge of cybersecurity considerations relevant to the design, development, fielding and sustainment of avionics Support Equipment and related component sub-systems;
6) Communicating effectively to convince or settle matters involving significant or controversial issues as they apply to avionics Support Equipment;
7) Providing knowledge of Peculiar Support Equipment and Common Support Equipment programs and Support Equipment technology, including both hardware and software; and
8) Mentoring junior and journeyman level engineers on matters relating to design, development, fielding and sustainment of avionics Support Equipment.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:
AND

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) 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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.

OR

Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), 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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at:

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Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 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 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit:

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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 under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above)

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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 one 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.
Job ID: 487178851
Originally Posted on: 7/29/2025

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