General Engineer - Automation and Human Factors SME

About the role

The Air Force Civilian Service (AFCS) is seeking a Full-time General Engineer (NH-0801-03) to work for Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) in the Air Force Sustainment Center's Engineering and Technical Management Directorate, AFSC/EN Office.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the Automation and Human Factors subject matter expert.
• Supports all AFSC organizations at Hill AFB, Robins AFB, and Tinker AFB.
• Applies knowledge of advanced engineering principles, concepts, and methods to help resolve technical challenges and accelerate production and maintenance processes.
• Provides technical consultation to leadership, internal customers, and external partners, including industry and academia, on matters of automation and human factors engineering.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with counterparts at AFMC Centers, HQ AFMC, and other agencies, academia, or with contractor engineering specialists.
• Represents the organization in working groups and assists with proliferation efforts involving automation and human factors engineering.
• Performs complex and comprehensive analyses and uses systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approaches to determine performance objectives and integration issues.
• Affirms the impact of emerging automation technologies on current systems.
• Implements, develops, and documents projects, and ascertains needed changes or modifications to production methods, procedures, and approaches.
• Delivers presentations on project status, accomplishments, and challenges encountered.
• Develops and maintains action plans used to achieve short and long-range efficiency goals.
• Accomplishes AFSC/EN special projects, taskers, and suspenses as directed and provides status in regular meetings.
• Periodic travel for temporary duty (TDY) may be needed to support projects and remain knowledgeable of new capabilities and technologies.

Requirements

• An engineering degree at the bachelor’s level from an institution with an ABET-accredited program in Engineering or a closely related field is highly desired.
• The work may occasionally require travel away from the normal duty station on military or commercial aircraft.
• The work requires the incumbent to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance.
• This position is designated as an acquisition position covered by the Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP).

Qualifications

• Knowledge of a wide range of multidisciplinary professional engineering concepts, principles, and practices.
• Knowledge of development engineering methodologies to apply experimental theories and new applications to weapon systems and support equipment.
• Knowledge of systems engineering practices as they pertain to sustainment, modification, logistics, and production management.
• Knowledge of the principles of planning and program management.
• Ability to devise and evaluate criteria for design approaches, assess the impact of new technology, and recommend solutions to problems.
• Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and with technical accuracy, both orally and in writing, with peers, management, contractors, academia, and other agencies.