Safety Engineering Intern - Dahlgren, VA, United States - Department Of Defense

Description

As a SAFETY ENGINEER at the NH some of your typical work assignments may include:

Serves as a technical consultant on policy issues affecting safe Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) program conduct and ensures that functions and operations are performed in accordance with MDA Assurance Provisions (MAP) and other applicable policies and procedures.

Reviews and analyzes risk assessment/mitigation and recommends sign-off prior to program's acceptance into high risk phases or for flight critical items.

Assures acceptance of residual safety risks by the appropriate MDA authority per agency policy. Processes safety waivers as required.
Coordinates efforts to resolve system safety and range/flight safety issues. Receives and consolidates safety status from the assigned program/project/element safety office. Provides real-time system safety status to management to identify and mitigate risks.

Reviews plans and makes recommendations to assure operations safety, system safety engineering and mission flight control requirements are adequately addressed in Flight Tests.

Ensures operations safety, system safety engineering and mission flight control requirements are met during the development of standard operating procedures for routine and contingency operations.

Ensures lessons learned are shared within the Safety community as well as other Program/Project/Element offices to prevent mistakes from being repeated.

Provides technical support to MDA Senior technical experts across the agency and other government agencies, industry, and academia on system safety engineering issues/concerns.

Represents MDA/QS on field visits to various Services, Commands, and Program Offices to assist in the planning, development, acquisition, and execution of the reliability, mission assurance, and service life of all MDA Programs.

RequiredTelework Eligibility:

This position is telework eligibleEmployee must obtain and maintain a Non-Critical Sensitive (Secret) Security ClearanceEmployee is required to obtain a Level Practitioner acquisition certification in Engineering and Technical Management within 24 months of entry into position.

Experience conducting risk mitigation, hazard analysis, and/or engineering technical consulting involved with complex weapon systems, to include safety risk management; range/flight safety; component safety management; and/or software safety; ORExperience applying military, industry, and commercial safety standards along with applying that knowledge to determine technical suitability of weapon system design; OR,Experience contributing to failure review boards, engineering reviews, technical interchange meetings, monitor testing, and qualification activities.

Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., 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.

NOTE:

The limit does not apply to cover letters, eligibility documents such as Standard Form (SF) 50, Military Spouse, DD Form 214, transcripts, etc.

In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the Series 0803, series as listed below: 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: (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (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.

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.

Professional registration or licensure 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 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.

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NOTE:

Applicants claiming eligibility under the related curriculum paragraph (4) must provide ONE of the two following documents: (a) Letter signed by the professional engineer who supervised the applicant's training plan.

The letter must include the starting date and completion date of applicant's training plan and the courses, experience, and/or education completed during the training agreement; OR (b) Letter signed by a professional engineer who supervised the applicant's professional engineering work experience.

The letter must include the name of the Company/Agency, dates of employment, and a description of the professional engineering duties.

All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.


GRADUATE EDUCATION:

One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours that your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study.

Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis.

If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U

Additional informationOther Notes:

ACQUISITION POSITION:
This position requires Acquisition Workforce Level Practitioner Certification in Engineering and Technical Management prior to hiring is not essential but must be accomplished within 24 months after entry into this position

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Programs:

This program applies to employees who have been involuntarily separated from a Federal service position within the competitive service or Federal service employees whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed.

Well qualified is defined as possessing the type and quality of experience that exceeds the positions minimum qualifications.

Males born after must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see Who Needs to Register | Selective Service System :
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Review our benefitsEligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent.

We will review your resume and supporting documents, to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements.

We will evaluate each applicant who meets the basic qualifications on the information provided and evaluate your relevant work experiences as it relates to fundamental competencies, identified below, required for this position.

Competencies:
Safety Engineering Principles and ConceptsSystem Safety AnalysisSafety Risk AssessmentDesign, Development, Integration, Test, and VerificationWeapon Design
Traditional rating and ranking of applications does not apply to this vacancy.

Your application (resume and supporting documentation) will be evaluated to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications required as listed on the announcement under qualification requirements.

Veterans Preference:

If you are entitled to veterans preference, you should indicate the type of veterans' preference you are claiming on your resume.

Your veterans' preference entitlement will be verified by the employing agency.