Interdisciplinary
What you'd do
This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: As staff engineer, representing Operations Division, serves as technical assistant to the Chief of Technical Support Section, in providing technical knowledge required for design, construction oversight, equipment installation, and equipment operation activities.
Major duties
Inspects features of construction/equipment installation, analyzes construction feature equipment interface problems, reviews construction and supply contract documents to assure compatibility and monitors contractor quality control programs. Conducts quality assurance inspections of in-house and contractor construction projects such as dams, breakwaters, levees, irrigation systems, roads, concrete structures, pavement, docks, buildings and mechanical, plumbing and electrical systems. Reviews and understands contract specifications, drawings and contractor submittals. Resolves problems that arise regarding scheduling, coordinating and interpreting contract specifications. Performs professional engineering studies to evaluate effectiveness of contractor quality assurance programs and recommends, to supervisor, grade to be used in contractor's performance evaluation. Serves as professional engineering advisor for preparation of findings of fact to be used for negotiation of contract modifications. Studies and analyzes basic data such as instruction manuals, station logs, maintenance and test records, cost and time reports, etc., in order to facilitate the development of an adequate maintenance program. Gives assistance to operating and maintenance (O/M) units in solving problems of an engineering design nature arising from operation, maintenance, and construction of the projects. Reviews construction contract plans and specifications and changes thereto for technical accuracy and sufficiency from a construction viewpoint. Develops specifications or portion thereof, for various types of contract or hired labor work or for materials and equipment.
What you need to qualify
Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or 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. Basic Requirement for Interdisciplinary Engineer (Civil (0810); Mechanical (0830); Electrical (0850)): A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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), 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) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. 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 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. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: GS-05 Requirement: Must meet the Basic Requirement listed above. GS-07 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) performing basic engineering computations or calculations; OR 2) gathering data from engineering field investigations; OR 3) documenting engineering project results. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-05). OR Education: One full year of graduate level education in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Civil, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering. OR Superior Academic Achievement: See assessment questionnaire. OR Combination of Education and Experience: See assessment questionnaire. GS-09 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) performing engineering analysis and computations or calculations in support of engineering designs; OR 2) creating engineering reports; OR 3) performing quality assurance on construction contracts. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07). OR Education: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Civil, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering. OR Combination of Education and Experience: See assessment questionnaire. GS-11 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience applying fundamental engineering theories, principles, concepts, standards, and/or construction/architecture methods towards industrial or civil works related facilities OR 2) experience with overseeing, administering, and performing quality assurance on construction contracts in excess of $100,000. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09). OR Education: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Civil, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering. OR Combination of Education and Experience: See assessment questionnaire.
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