{"id":3736875,"url":"https://alion.io/job/united-states-army-aerospace-engineer","title":"Aerospace Engineer","company":{"id":1753348,"name":"United States Army","domain":"army.mil","url":"https://alion.io/company/army-mil","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":127646,"max":null,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":127646},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":1,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-04T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-11-04T00:00:00Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":5,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":5},"description":"Summary\nAbout the Position: Serves as a Aerospace Engineer for the US Army Aviation and Missile Command, Aviation Integration Directorate, located in Fort Eustis, VA.\n\nThis is a pay banded position. This position has a control point at GS 14 step 10 for compensation. \nDuties\n\n Serves as a senior engineering or scientific professional with program or team leaders’ responsibility in design, development, test and/or evaluation.\n\n Responsible for leading the design, development systems engineering, testing, safe operation, fielding and support of world class aviation products and aircraft for Special Operation units.\n\n Development of cost estimates, budgets, and schedules to support execution of acquisition programs.\n\n Provides technical direction and guidance to contractors providing clarifications or technical instructions.\n\n . Review program documentation and interface with the contractor to monitor and evaluate contractor’s performance.\n\n Requirements\nConditions of employment\n\n Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.\n\n Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.\n\n One-year probationary period may be required.\n\n The duties of this position require submission of, on an annual basis, OGE 450, Confidential Financial Disclosure Report.\n\n This position is subject to a pre-employment drug screening, and random testing thereafter.\n\n Qualifications\n\n Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.\n\nCurrent Department of Army Civilian Employees\nInteragency Career Transition Assistance Plan\nLand Management Workforce Flexibility Act\nMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473\nPriority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible\nPriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible\nPriority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement\nPriority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible\nVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998\n\nIn order to qualify, you must meet the education and specialized experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.\n\nExperience required: To qualify based on your work experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job.\n\nSpecialized experience: To qualify, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade/level (NH-03).\n\nSpecialized experience is defined as:1) managing multidimensional engineering functions associated with weapon system development; 2) responsible for two or more major elements of a defense system; 3) estimates account for project related to weapon system development.\n\nand, 4) Leading a team in the accomplishment of organizational goals.\n\nEducation cannot be substituted for experience.\n\nYou will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:\n\nAerospace Engineering\nContracting/Procurement\nProject Management\nSystems Engineering\n\n Education\n\n FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show 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.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.\n\nA. 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. NOTE: You MUST submit a copy of your transcripts.\n\nOR\n\nB. 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:\n\nProfessional 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. NOTE: You MUST submit a copy of your registration and/or license.\n\nWritten Test -- 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.\n\nSpecified 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. NOTE: You MUST submit a copy of your transcripts.\n\nNOTE: 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.\n\nNOTE: A SF-50 reflecting that you currently or formerly served as an Engineer for the Federal Government is NOT qualifying supporting documentation for the basic requirement. You MUST submit either your transcripts, current registration as a professional engineer, EIT examination results, and/or supporting documentation based on your claim of the basic requirement, as applicable. Lack of this documentation will make you ineligible to be referred.\n\n Additional information\n\n Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.\n\n You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.\n\n This position requires a 1 year probationary period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest.\n\n Direct deposit of pay is required.\n\n This position requires you to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter.\n\n Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.\n\n If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.\n\n This is a(n) CP-16 Career Program position aligned under the Engineers and Scientist Career Management Directorate.\n\n Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.\n\n Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.\n\n Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest.\n\n Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.\n\n 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. .\n\n Review our benefits\n\n 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.\nHow you will be evaluated\nYou will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.\n\n As part of the assessment process, your resume will be evaluated using a competency-based method. This structured evaluation measures your qualifications, experience, and skills against the core competencies required for the position. Final scores will determine whether you are referred to the Hiring Manager for further consideration.\n\nOnce the announcement has closed, a review of your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements listed on this announcement. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.\n\nIf, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position.\n\nYou may claim Military Spouse preference.\n\nYou may claim Priority Placement Program (PPP) preference.\n\nInteragency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP). If you are a Federal employee in the competitive service and your agency has notified you in writing that you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority for this position. To receive selection priority, you must: (1) meet ICTAP eligibility criteria (2) be rated well-qualified for the position and; (3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your ICTAP eligibility. 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