Industrial Engineer

Summary

This Industrial Engineer position serves within the Director of Labor Analysis to an assigned reporting organization. The incumbent acts as an individual contributor and/or member of a team and may act as a project lead on some work activities. He/she will perform a variety of complex, detailed staffing, scheduling, and workforce planning analyses to support Workforce Planning initiatives for Federal Aviation Administration’s workforce.

Duties

• The incumbent applies experience and comprehensive knowledge of industrial engineering principles, theories and concepts to solve complex problems, to develop improved technical processes while utilizing quantitative fact-finding, analysis techniques to develop, and improve complex models and to accomplish
• Work assignments include extensive research and responsibility for assigned project/program management.
• The Industrial Engineer performs the following:
• Develop plans for data collection including the development of sample design, size, and selection; (2)
• Conduct workforce studies to develop mathematical and/or statistical relationships between scheduling and resource requirements; (3)
• Develop mathematical and/or statistical models to represent current agency processes and procedures in the areas of staffing and workforce planning. (4)
• Develop and execute analysis of issues pertaining to staffing resource productivity and efficiency.
• Use quantitative and statistical methods such as correlation, regression analysis, and optimization.
• These models will be used to develop national and local staffing requirements and conduct sensitivity analyses to answer management's "what if' questions for different scenarios.
• The incumbent will also provide technical assistance in developing and evaluating new and/or improved methods and procedures.
• This position is strategic and analytic in nature.
• The incumbent will formulate alternatives, provide recommendations, and develop implementation plans to address current and anticipated problems and issues.
• The incumbent works independently, but also closely with management and other professionals to jointly solve problems.
• Contacts are internal and external.
• Often represents the organization and/or
• FAA as a senior technical point of contact on projects, programs and other work activities. Communicates results to all levels internally (within an
• LOB/SO or across
• LOB/SOs) and externally.
• Plays a lead role in drafting, reviewing, and editing reports.
• Presents briefings and coordinates significant technical matters with representatives of external organizations.
• Broad policies and objectives provide general guidance for addressing issues, but allow considerable discretion to develop new and innovative approaches.
• Draws on experience to solve unusual problems and may create new solutions and policy interpretations as the situation requires.
• Provides policy guidance and instruction to others.
• Provides guidance to lower-level staff to solve difficult technical issues.
• Resolves all but unique technical problems without the intervention of management or a more experienced engineer.
• Develops plans, techniques to address current or anticipated problems and issues.
• Works with senior management to solve problems.
• 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 one or more major subdivisions and/or
• LOB/SOs and may impact on the objectives of the FAA

Requirements

We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.

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. Basic Requirements: A. 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: (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. OR B. 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. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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.) Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise. · If you are a current or former Federal employee, and you currently hold or previously held a position classified in the 0896 occupational series, you are not required to submit a college transcript provided you upload a copy of the SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action, verifying your classification in the 0896 occupational series. · Applicants, who are not currently in the 0896 occupational series in the Federal Government and fail to provide a copy of an unofficial or official transcript will not receive further consideration for this vacancy. Upon selection, if not currently employed in the 0896 occupational series, you will be required to submit an official transcript prior to appointment. If you do not have an official transcript (original, with the raised seal), you should contact your school immediately to request it. · Foreign Education: For additional information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Required Documents

• ALL applicants MUST submit the following:
• (1) resume with complete work history; and (2) a copy of your most recent
• SF-50 (Notification of Personnel
• Action). For guidance on how to create a
• Federal resume, visit http://www.archives.gov/careers/jobs/forms/resume-guide.pdf. Failure to submit all required documents by the closing date will result in a finding of ineligible. We are not responsible for incomplete, illegible or missing documents. Please
• DO NOT email your application documents. We cannot accept documents received via the email system. Documents sent via email will
• NOT receive consideration. 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 an
• 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 an
• FAA employee, you can access and print your
• SF-50 from the eOPF system https://eopf.opm.gov/dot/. Forms: SF-15: Application for 10-Point Veteran Preference