General Engineer (Senior Operations Engineer)
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Des Plaines, Illinois
General Engineer (Senior Operions Engineer)
Department of Transportion
Federal Aviion Administrion
Air Traffic Organizion, Technical Operions, Operions Engineering Support Group (AJW-C24)
Summary
Serves as a General Engineer in the Operions Engineering Support Group organizion under the minimal direction of a manager or more experienced engineer. Plans and accomplishes highly complex and challenging projects/programs and other work activities. May act as a principal technical specialist or as a project/program manager or team leader for large work activities.
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Summary
Serves as a General Engineer in the Operions Engineering Support Group organizion under the minimal direction of a manager or more experienced engineer. Plans and accomplishes highly complex and challenging projects/programs and other work activities. May act as a principal technical specialist or as a project/program manager or team leader for large work activities.
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Overview
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Accepting applicions
Posted today
Apply by 06/12/26
Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 12, 2026
Locion
3 vacancies in the following locions:
Des Plaines, IL
Lenexa, KS
Bethany, OK
Fort Worth, TX
Houston, TX
No mching locions found.
Work site options
Telework eligible
YesSituional telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy.
Relocion expenses reimbursed
No
Salary
$95,489 - $148,037 per year
Salary does not include locality pay. For specifics regarding salary refer to the additional informion section of the announcement.
Pay scale & grade
FV J
Promotion potential
NA
Learn more about pay scale and grade
Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job.
Work schedule
Full-time
Travel Required
50% or less - The job may require up to 50% travel.
Appointment type
Permanent
Occupions and job series
0801 General Engineering
Supervisory stus
No
Federal service type
This job is in the Excepted Service
Represented by a union
Yes - This position is represented by NATCA: Engineers & Architects.
Drug test
No
Security clearance
Other
Announcement number
AGL-ATO-26-0015-97744
Control number
870993400
This job is open to
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Internal to an agency
Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement.
Clarificion from the agency
FAA-Wide - Open to current, permanent FAA employees
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This job is also open in another announcement to:
The public
Veterans
Military spouses
Individuals with disabilities
Peace Corps & AmeriCorps Vista
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Duties
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Applies experience and comprehensive knowledge of engineering principles, theories, and concepts applicable to his/her discipline, as well as an understanding of new technologies and methodologies, to solve complex problems and to develop improved technical processes for the organizion. Provides in-depth technical expertise to engineers and specialists serving as key point of contact. Leads testing, restoring, evaluion of operional equipment, and analyzes collected da for optimizing NAS facilities. Assignments frequently require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizional lines. Alloces resources to accomplish large work activities within established schedules. Researches and provides in-depth analysis of technical problems and their solutions. Oversees analysis of NAS performance trends and formulion of solutions. Provides effective on-site engineering support for analysis, troubleshooting, and restorion of problemic facilities or services within the assigned areas of responsibility.
Applies advanced knowledge of electronics engineering and specific knowledge of one or more complex NAS systems (RADAR, Instrument Landing Localizer, Glide Slope, Weher and Communicions). Identifies and resolves Nional Airspace System (NAS) operional problems within their specialized area. Analyzes impacts of obstruction Evaluion/Airport Airspace Analysis (OE/AAA) and Non Rulemaking Activity (NRA) on NAS Operions. Communices Internal and external concerns and recommends alternives. Reviews Nional Change Proposal and provides input.
Provides comprehensive, professional and technical guidance and direction to the Technical Support Centers (TSCs) and System Support Centers (SSCs) who maintain the equipment. Such work includes, but is not limited to, conducting studies of NAS systems operion to evalue the performance and effectiveness of equipment and systems. The incumbent investiges and identifies the cause of any facility outage. Work is to be accomplished in a thorough and comprehensive manner with targeted efforts toward those activities th have the greest priority. Responsible for maintaining in-depth knowledge of ongoing issues and activities within the assigned area(s) of responsibility, and uses th knowledge to recognize emerging priorities.
Contacts are internal and external. Often represents FAA as a senior technical point of contact on projects, programs and other work activities. Communices results to all levels internally (within an LOB/SO or across LOB's/SO's) and externally. Communices issues to management, and recommends approprie course(s) of action to address issues. The incumbent minimizes the impacts to operions resulting from such things as new requirements, technologies, and budget constraints/changes using innovive, cost-effective maintenance approaches. Oversees risk mitigion stregies for maintenance and project activities within the region and insures th all stakeholders have input on issues associed with operions. Incumbent may be responsible for analyzing requests for flight inspection waivers, and has authority to grant flight inspection waivers. Handles difficult situions th are compounded by outside factors such as weher, politics, policy, etc.
Broad policies and objectives provide general guidance for addressing issues, but allow considerable discretion to develop new and innovive approaches. Provides policy guidance and instruction to others, both internally and externally. Work is reviewed rarely, typically though stus reports and 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's/SO's and may impact on the objectives of the FAA.
Requirements
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Conditions of employment
US Citizenship is required.
Selective Service Registrion is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
Must submit an SF50 (See Required Documents).
This position has a positive educion requirement. Transcript(s) required.
Interviews conducted IAW applicable Collective Bargaining Unit Agreement and/or Agency Policy
Qualificions
Basic Requirements:
Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with 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) stics, dynamics; (b) strength of merials (stress-strain relionships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nure and properties of merials (reling particle and aggrege structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, he transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
OR
Combinion of educion and experience -- college-level educion, training, and/or technical experience th furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mhemical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applicions to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstred by one of the following:
1. Professional registrion or licensure -- Current registrion as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any Ste, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registrion by means other than written test (e.g., Ste grandfher or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions th are within or closely reled to the specialty field of their registrion. For example, an applicant who tains registrion through a Ste Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be red eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examinion or any other written test required for professional registrion by an engineering licensure board in the various Stes, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mhemical, and engineering sciences and th 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. Reled curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an approprie scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mhemics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelors degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had 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 reled curricula are not all-inclusive.)
To qualify for this position to qualify for this position you must demonstre in your applicion th you possess least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I, FG/GS-13. Specialized experience is experience th has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.
Specialized experience may include but not limited to:
Experience working with Terminal, NAVAIDS, EnRoute NAVAIDS, Communicions, Surveillance, and Environmental.
Applicants must include examples of specialized experience in their work history.
Qualificion requirements must be met by the closing de of this vacancy announcement.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiive, the FAA is committed to elimining the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narrives from the applicion in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrive response in the text box listed below each KSA.
In lieu of providing a KSA narrive response, in your work history, please include informion th provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you choose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers evalued further to valide whether the level th you selected is approprie. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resources Specialist as approprie.
Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualificion requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evalued on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluion, applicants placed in one of the following cegories: score order, cegory grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for considerion.
Educion
This position has a positive educion requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certifices by the closing de of announcement to verify qualificions. If selected, an official transcript required prior to appointment. You may upload these documents with your applicion 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 considerion.
Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion. Accredition may be verified the following website: www.ed.gov/accredition .
Foreign educion must be evalued by a prive professional organizion specializing in interpretion of foreign educion credentials or an accredited U.S. educional institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired an American college or university. A copy of the evaluion results must be included, otherwise your foreign educion will not be
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Additional informion
We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions.
Position may be subject to a background investigion.
A one-year probionary period may be required.
The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure stement within 30 days of entry on duty. FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviion-reled companies. www.faa.gov/jobs/workinghere/financial-disclosure-requirements
Selections from this announcement placed in AJW-C24A or AJW-C24B.
SALARY INFORMATION WITH LOCALITY
Des Plaines, IL Minimum $124,957 - Maximum$193,721 (includes locality of 30.86%)
Lenexa, KS Minimum $113,603 - Maximum$176,120 (includes locality of 18.97%)
Bethany, OK Minimum $111,779 - Maximum$173,292 (includes locality of 17.06%)
Ft. Worth, TX Minimum $121,519 - Maximum$188,392 (includes locality of 27.26%)
Houston, TX Minimum $128,910 - Maximum$199,850 (includes locality of 35.00%)
This position is also open to U.S. Citizens, Individuals with Disabilities, Military Spouses, Peace Corps & Vista Alumni, Veterans eligible for 30% or more Disabled and Veterans' Recruitment Act (VRA) under vacancy AGL-ATO-26-0035-98650.
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Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution.
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You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.
IMPORTANT: Applicants may be red on the extent and quality of experience, educion, and training relevant to the duties of the position(s). All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantied. Ensure th your applicion package/resume supports your responses.
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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 th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .
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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 informion on the specific benefits offered.
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Required Documents
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Only supplemental documention, e.g. transcripts or veteran's documention accepted in combinion with your on-line applicion. These documents must be uploaded or faxed to ... on or before the closing de of this announcement. All submitted documents should reference the announcement number AGL-ATO-26-0015-97744.
This position has a positive educion requirement; college transcripts are required for ALL candides 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 (Notificion of Personnel Action) containing informion in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organizion of record by the closing de of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line applicion. 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 .
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
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Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluion process. This assessment aims to evalue the competencies and qualificions essential for the position.
You must apply online to receive considerion. Your applicion must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close De for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associed with FAA registers, your applicion must be submitted the time a referral list is creed in order to receive considerion for positions associed with a register.
RESUMES ARE LIMITED TO TWO PAGES. IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC AND INCLUDE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO THE QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION.
Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following informion:
Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job)
Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualificions and include job title, employer name, start/end des, number of hours worked per week.
Educion, certificion or licensure: If required, educion should include school/institution name, completion de, degree type and GPA.
Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above informion and failure to provide ALL of this informion may result in a finding of ineligible.
You may upload completed documents to your USAJOBS Account. This will provide you the opportunity to utilize the uploaded informion again when applying for future vacancies.
Agency contact informion
Michele M. McNamara
Phone
...
Fax
...
...
Address
Federal Aviion Administrion
AGL Regional HR Services Branch
2300 E. Devon Ave., Room 250
AHF-N310
Des Plaines, IL 60018
US
Next steps
Once we receive your complete applicion, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluion of your qualificions. Eligible and qualified candides referred to the hiring manager for considerion. You contacted directly if selected for an interview.
For instructions on how to check the stus of your applicion, please go to: USAJOBS Help Guide .
Important - If you make any changes to your applicion, you must resubmit it. If you make changes to your applicion and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your applicion package, and only your previously submitted applicion evalued.
All qualified applicants considered regardless of political affiliion, race, color, religion, nional origin, gender, sexual oriention, marital stus, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Informion section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodion request. Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodion made on a case-by-case basis. Additional informion on reasonable accommodions procedures or on EEO Programs is available on Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Required Documents
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Only supplemental documention, e.g. transcripts or veteran's documention accepted in combinion with your on-line applicion. These documents must be uploaded or faxed to ... on or before the closing de of this announcement. All submitted documents should reference the announcement number AGL-ATO-26-0015-97744.
This position has a positive educion requirement; college transcripts are required for ALL candides 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 (Notificion of Personnel Action) containing informion in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organizion of record by the closing de of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line applicion. 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 .
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
Help
Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluion process. This assessment aims to evalue the competencies and qualificions essential for the position.
You must apply online to receive considerion. Your applicion must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close De for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associed with FAA registers, your applicion must be submitted the time a referral list is creed in order to receive considerion for positions associed with a register.
RESUMES ARE LIMITED TO TWO PAGES. IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC AND INCLUDE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO THE QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION.
Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following informion:
Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job)
Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualificions and include job title, employer name, start/end des, number of hours worked per week.
Educion, certificion or licensure: If required, educion should include school/institution name, completion de, degree type and GPA.
Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above informion and failure to provide ALL of this informion may result in a finding of ineligible.
You may upload completed documents to your USAJOBS Account. This will provide you the opportunity to utilize the uploaded informion again when applying for future vacancies.
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Agency contact informion
Michele M. McNamara
Phone
...
Fax
...
...
Address
Federal Aviion Administrion
AGL Regional HR Services Branch
2300 E. Devon Ave., Room 250
AHF-N310
Des Plaines, IL 60018
US
Next steps
Once we receive your complete applicion, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluion of your qualificions. Eligible and qualified candides referred to the hiring manager for considerion. You contacted directly if selected for an interview.
For instructions on how to check the stus of your applicion, please go to: USAJOBS Help Guide .
Important - If you make any changes to your applicion, you must resubmit it. If you make changes to your applicion and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your applicion package, and only your previously submitted applicion evalued.
All qualified applicants considered regardless of political affiliion, race, color, religion, nional origin, gender, sexual oriention, marital stus, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Informion section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodion request. Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodion made on a case-by-case basis. Additional informion on reasonable accommodions procedures or on EEO Programs is available on Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office.
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Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Additional locions
Houston, TX
Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted today Apply by 06/12/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 12, 2026 Locion 3 vacancies in the following locions: Des Plaines, IL Lenexa, KS Bethany, OK Fort Worth, TX Houston, TX No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible YesSituional telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $95,489 - $148,037 per year Salary does not include locality pay. For specifics regarding salary refer to the additional informion section of the announcement. Pay scale & grade FV J Promotion potential NA Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 50% or less - The job may require up to 50% travel. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Excepted Service Represented by a union Yes - This position is represented by NATCA: Engineers & Architects. Drug test No Security clearance Other Announcement number AGL-ATO-26-0015-97744 Control number 870993400
Department of Transportion
Federal Aviion Administrion
Air Traffic Organizion, Technical Operions, Operions Engineering Support Group (AJW-C24)
Summary
Serves as a General Engineer in the Operions Engineering Support Group organizion under the minimal direction of a manager or more experienced engineer. Plans and accomplishes highly complex and challenging projects/programs and other work activities. May act as a principal technical specialist or as a project/program manager or team leader for large work activities.
Learn more about this agency
Summary
Serves as a General Engineer in the Operions Engineering Support Group organizion under the minimal direction of a manager or more experienced engineer. Plans and accomplishes highly complex and challenging projects/programs and other work activities. May act as a principal technical specialist or as a project/program manager or team leader for large work activities.
Learn more about this agency
Overview
Help
Accepting applicions
Posted today
Apply by 06/12/26
Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 12, 2026
Locion
3 vacancies in the following locions:
Des Plaines, IL
Lenexa, KS
Bethany, OK
Fort Worth, TX
Houston, TX
No mching locions found.
Work site options
Telework eligible
YesSituional telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy.
Relocion expenses reimbursed
No
Salary
$95,489 - $148,037 per year
Salary does not include locality pay. For specifics regarding salary refer to the additional informion section of the announcement.
Pay scale & grade
FV J
Promotion potential
NA
Learn more about pay scale and grade
Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job.
Work schedule
Full-time
Travel Required
50% or less - The job may require up to 50% travel.
Appointment type
Permanent
Occupions and job series
0801 General Engineering
Supervisory stus
No
Federal service type
This job is in the Excepted Service
Represented by a union
Yes - This position is represented by NATCA: Engineers & Architects.
Drug test
No
Security clearance
Other
Announcement number
AGL-ATO-26-0015-97744
Control number
870993400
This job is open to
Help
Internal to an agency
Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement.
Clarificion from the agency
FAA-Wide - Open to current, permanent FAA employees
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This job is also open in another announcement to:
The public
Veterans
Military spouses
Individuals with disabilities
Peace Corps & AmeriCorps Vista
Special authorities
Duties
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Applies experience and comprehensive knowledge of engineering principles, theories, and concepts applicable to his/her discipline, as well as an understanding of new technologies and methodologies, to solve complex problems and to develop improved technical processes for the organizion. Provides in-depth technical expertise to engineers and specialists serving as key point of contact. Leads testing, restoring, evaluion of operional equipment, and analyzes collected da for optimizing NAS facilities. Assignments frequently require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizional lines. Alloces resources to accomplish large work activities within established schedules. Researches and provides in-depth analysis of technical problems and their solutions. Oversees analysis of NAS performance trends and formulion of solutions. Provides effective on-site engineering support for analysis, troubleshooting, and restorion of problemic facilities or services within the assigned areas of responsibility.
Applies advanced knowledge of electronics engineering and specific knowledge of one or more complex NAS systems (RADAR, Instrument Landing Localizer, Glide Slope, Weher and Communicions). Identifies and resolves Nional Airspace System (NAS) operional problems within their specialized area. Analyzes impacts of obstruction Evaluion/Airport Airspace Analysis (OE/AAA) and Non Rulemaking Activity (NRA) on NAS Operions. Communices Internal and external concerns and recommends alternives. Reviews Nional Change Proposal and provides input.
Provides comprehensive, professional and technical guidance and direction to the Technical Support Centers (TSCs) and System Support Centers (SSCs) who maintain the equipment. Such work includes, but is not limited to, conducting studies of NAS systems operion to evalue the performance and effectiveness of equipment and systems. The incumbent investiges and identifies the cause of any facility outage. Work is to be accomplished in a thorough and comprehensive manner with targeted efforts toward those activities th have the greest priority. Responsible for maintaining in-depth knowledge of ongoing issues and activities within the assigned area(s) of responsibility, and uses th knowledge to recognize emerging priorities.
Contacts are internal and external. Often represents FAA as a senior technical point of contact on projects, programs and other work activities. Communices results to all levels internally (within an LOB/SO or across LOB's/SO's) and externally. Communices issues to management, and recommends approprie course(s) of action to address issues. The incumbent minimizes the impacts to operions resulting from such things as new requirements, technologies, and budget constraints/changes using innovive, cost-effective maintenance approaches. Oversees risk mitigion stregies for maintenance and project activities within the region and insures th all stakeholders have input on issues associed with operions. Incumbent may be responsible for analyzing requests for flight inspection waivers, and has authority to grant flight inspection waivers. Handles difficult situions th are compounded by outside factors such as weher, politics, policy, etc.
Broad policies and objectives provide general guidance for addressing issues, but allow considerable discretion to develop new and innovive approaches. Provides policy guidance and instruction to others, both internally and externally. Work is reviewed rarely, typically though stus reports and 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's/SO's and may impact on the objectives of the FAA.
Requirements
Help
Conditions of employment
US Citizenship is required.
Selective Service Registrion is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
Must submit an SF50 (See Required Documents).
This position has a positive educion requirement. Transcript(s) required.
Interviews conducted IAW applicable Collective Bargaining Unit Agreement and/or Agency Policy
Qualificions
Basic Requirements:
Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with 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) stics, dynamics; (b) strength of merials (stress-strain relionships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nure and properties of merials (reling particle and aggrege structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, he transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
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Combinion of educion and experience -- college-level educion, training, and/or technical experience th furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mhemical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applicions to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstred by one of the following:
1. Professional registrion or licensure -- Current registrion as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any Ste, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registrion by means other than written test (e.g., Ste grandfher or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions th are within or closely reled to the specialty field of their registrion. For example, an applicant who tains registrion through a Ste Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be red eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examinion or any other written test required for professional registrion by an engineering licensure board in the various Stes, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mhemical, and engineering sciences and th 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. Reled curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an approprie scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mhemics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelors degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had 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 reled curricula are not all-inclusive.)
To qualify for this position to qualify for this position you must demonstre in your applicion th you possess least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I, FG/GS-13. Specialized experience is experience th has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.
Specialized experience may include but not limited to:
Experience working with Terminal, NAVAIDS, EnRoute NAVAIDS, Communicions, Surveillance, and Environmental.
Applicants must include examples of specialized experience in their work history.
Qualificion requirements must be met by the closing de of this vacancy announcement.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiive, the FAA is committed to elimining the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narrives from the applicion in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrive response in the text box listed below each KSA.
In lieu of providing a KSA narrive response, in your work history, please include informion th provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you choose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers evalued further to valide whether the level th you selected is approprie. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resources Specialist as approprie.
Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualificion requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evalued on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluion, applicants placed in one of the following cegories: score order, cegory grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for considerion.
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This position has a positive educion requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certifices by the closing de of announcement to verify qualificions. If selected, an official transcript required prior to appointment. You may upload these documents with your applicion 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 considerion.
Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion. Accredition may be verified the following website: www.ed.gov/accredition .
Foreign educion must be evalued by a prive professional organizion specializing in interpretion of foreign educion credentials or an accredited U.S. educional institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired an American college or university. A copy of the evaluion results must be included, otherwise your foreign educion will not be
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We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions.
Position may be subject to a background investigion.
A one-year probionary period may be required.
The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure stement within 30 days of entry on duty. FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviion-reled companies. www.faa.gov/jobs/workinghere/financial-disclosure-requirements
Selections from this announcement placed in AJW-C24A or AJW-C24B.
SALARY INFORMATION WITH LOCALITY
Des Plaines, IL Minimum $124,957 - Maximum$193,721 (includes locality of 30.86%)
Lenexa, KS Minimum $113,603 - Maximum$176,120 (includes locality of 18.97%)
Bethany, OK Minimum $111,779 - Maximum$173,292 (includes locality of 17.06%)
Ft. Worth, TX Minimum $121,519 - Maximum$188,392 (includes locality of 27.26%)
Houston, TX Minimum $128,910 - Maximum$199,850 (includes locality of 35.00%)
This position is also open to U.S. Citizens, Individuals with Disabilities, Military Spouses, Peace Corps & Vista Alumni, Veterans eligible for 30% or more Disabled and Veterans' Recruitment Act (VRA) under vacancy AGL-ATO-26-0035-98650.
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You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.
IMPORTANT: Applicants may be red on the extent and quality of experience, educion, and training relevant to the duties of the position(s). All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantied. Ensure th your applicion package/resume supports your responses.
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Only supplemental documention, e.g. transcripts or veteran's documention accepted in combinion with your on-line applicion. These documents must be uploaded or faxed to ... on or before the closing de of this announcement. All submitted documents should reference the announcement number AGL-ATO-26-0015-97744.
This position has a positive educion requirement; college transcripts are required for ALL candides 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 (Notificion of Personnel Action) containing informion in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organizion of record by the closing de of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line applicion. 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 .
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
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Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluion process. This assessment aims to evalue the competencies and qualificions essential for the position.
You must apply online to receive considerion. Your applicion must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close De for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associed with FAA registers, your applicion must be submitted the time a referral list is creed in order to receive considerion for positions associed with a register.
RESUMES ARE LIMITED TO TWO PAGES. IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC AND INCLUDE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO THE QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION.
Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following informion:
Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job)
Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualificions and include job title, employer name, start/end des, number of hours worked per week.
Educion, certificion or licensure: If required, educion should include school/institution name, completion de, degree type and GPA.
Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above informion and failure to provide ALL of this informion may result in a finding of ineligible.
You may upload completed documents to your USAJOBS Account. This will provide you the opportunity to utilize the uploaded informion again when applying for future vacancies.
Agency contact informion
Michele M. McNamara
Phone
...
Fax
...
...
Address
Federal Aviion Administrion
AGL Regional HR Services Branch
2300 E. Devon Ave., Room 250
AHF-N310
Des Plaines, IL 60018
US
Next steps
Once we receive your complete applicion, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluion of your qualificions. Eligible and qualified candides referred to the hiring manager for considerion. You contacted directly if selected for an interview.
For instructions on how to check the stus of your applicion, please go to: USAJOBS Help Guide .
Important - If you make any changes to your applicion, you must resubmit it. If you make changes to your applicion and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your applicion package, and only your previously submitted applicion evalued.
All qualified applicants considered regardless of political affiliion, race, color, religion, nional origin, gender, sexual oriention, marital stus, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Informion section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodion request. Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodion made on a case-by-case basis. Additional informion on reasonable accommodions procedures or on EEO Programs is available on Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Required Documents
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Only supplemental documention, e.g. transcripts or veteran's documention accepted in combinion with your on-line applicion. These documents must be uploaded or faxed to ... on or before the closing de of this announcement. All submitted documents should reference the announcement number AGL-ATO-26-0015-97744.
This position has a positive educion requirement; college transcripts are required for ALL candides 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 (Notificion of Personnel Action) containing informion in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organizion of record by the closing de of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line applicion. 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 .
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
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Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluion process. This assessment aims to evalue the competencies and qualificions essential for the position.
You must apply online to receive considerion. Your applicion must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close De for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associed with FAA registers, your applicion must be submitted the time a referral list is creed in order to receive considerion for positions associed with a register.
RESUMES ARE LIMITED TO TWO PAGES. IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC AND INCLUDE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO THE QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION.
Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following informion:
Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job)
Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualificions and include job title, employer name, start/end des, number of hours worked per week.
Educion, certificion or licensure: If required, educion should include school/institution name, completion de, degree type and GPA.
Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above informion and failure to provide ALL of this informion may result in a finding of ineligible.
You may upload completed documents to your USAJOBS Account. This will provide you the opportunity to utilize the uploaded informion again when applying for future vacancies.
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Agency contact informion
Michele M. McNamara
Phone
...
Fax
...
...
Address
Federal Aviion Administrion
AGL Regional HR Services Branch
2300 E. Devon Ave., Room 250
AHF-N310
Des Plaines, IL 60018
US
Next steps
Once we receive your complete applicion, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluion of your qualificions. Eligible and qualified candides referred to the hiring manager for considerion. You contacted directly if selected for an interview.
For instructions on how to check the stus of your applicion, please go to: USAJOBS Help Guide .
Important - If you make any changes to your applicion, you must resubmit it. If you make changes to your applicion and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your applicion package, and only your previously submitted applicion evalued.
All qualified applicants considered regardless of political affiliion, race, color, religion, nional origin, gender, sexual oriention, marital stus, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Informion section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodion request. Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodion made on a case-by-case basis. Additional informion on reasonable accommodions procedures or on EEO Programs is available on Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office.
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Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Additional locions
Houston, TX
Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted today Apply by 06/12/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 12, 2026 Locion 3 vacancies in the following locions: Des Plaines, IL Lenexa, KS Bethany, OK Fort Worth, TX Houston, TX No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible YesSituional telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $95,489 - $148,037 per year Salary does not include locality pay. For specifics regarding salary refer to the additional informion section of the announcement. Pay scale & grade FV J Promotion potential NA Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 50% or less - The job may require up to 50% travel. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Excepted Service Represented by a union Yes - This position is represented by NATCA: Engineers & Architects. Drug test No Security clearance Other Announcement number AGL-ATO-26-0015-97744 Control number 870993400
Job ID: 523093044
Originally Posted on: 5/31/2026
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