Principal Engineer​/Aviation Specialist - Levels

Overview

Noblis and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI and Noblis MSD, take on some of the nation’s toughest challenges, delivering advanced solutions to our customers’ most critical missions. We bring together leading scientific, engineering, and management expertise in a culture grounded in objectivity and collaboration, ensuring our work creates lasting impact across federal missions.

We work with a broad range of government agencies in the defense, intelligence, and federal civilian sectors. Learn more and find opportunities lis.org

• Serve as a Senior Advisor, providing technical or domain knowledge of the FAA or Federal government.
• Apply expertise in FAA processes, specialized applications, diverse operational environments, and geo-political contexts.
• Lead and manage complex projects related to the design, development, and implementation of air traffic management systems and surveillance technologies.
• Provide expert technical guidance and strategic direction for the transition from current Air Traffic Control (ATC) capabilities to Next Gen capabilities.
• Conduct system-wide reviews and analyses of all aspects of the National Airspace System (NAS) development life cycle, focusing on ATC automation, communications, navigation, and surveillance elements.
• Develop and validate technical standards, surveillance-automation interfaces, and aircraft separation standards.
• Formulate and implement system safety and risk management plans, and establish system configuration baselines.
• Lead the development of enterprise architecture products, functional and performance system specifications, and concepts of system operation.
• Create and maintain requirements traceability matrices, functional decomposition matrices/trees, and interface documents (IRD/ICD).
• Oversee the allocation of requirements among developmental systems, subsystems, modules, and commercial components.
• Design, develop, prepare, and review management and technical reports and presentations within the specialist’s area of expertise.

• Successfully pass an FAA background investigation/verification and receive a successful final suitability determination.
• Experience in aviation, systems engineering, or a related discipline, preferably within the federal sector.
• Extensive experience with ATC systems, including automation, communications, navigation, and surveillance elements.
• Strong background in developing and validating technical standards and system safety plans.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to lead complex projects.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team;
  Proactive, solution-oriented, with exceptional time management skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.

Work experience that is not relevant to the labor category definition will not be considered in the "Years of Relevant Experience" calculation.

• Minimum of 20 years’ experience with bachelor’s degree in any field though technical degree strongly preferred.
• Master’s degree in any field (e.g. MS, MA, MBA) may be substituted for three years of experience.
• PhD may be substituted for an additional three years of experience.
• Compensation Ranges - $138,

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience with bachelor’s degree in any field though technical degree strongly preferred.
• Master’s degree in any field (e.g. MS, MA, MBA) may be substituted for three years of experience.
• PhD may be substituted for an additional three years of experience.
• Compensation Ranges - $114,

• Knowledge of FAA s Acquisition Management System processes and products.
• Knowledge of NAS Enterprise Architecture.
• Applied experience using System Architect, DOORS, CORE, and Cameo.
• Experience in integrating new systems into the National Airspace System (NAS).
• Demonstrated technical leadership in FAA s NAS modernization programs.
• Model Based System Engineering/Digital Engineering.

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