General Engineer
What you'd do
This position is located in the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. This vacancy is also being announced concurrently with vacancy announcement HHS-CDC-MP-26-13026704 under merit promotion procedures. Please review this announcement to see if you are eligible for consideration under merit promotion procedures.
Major duties
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY As a General Engineer, you will use your knowledge and experience to optimize business results and customer experience by: Assist in the design, development, and execution of engineering research projects focused on preventing traumatic workplace injuries and fatalities. Participate in the design, calibration, operation, and evaluation of engineering instrumentation and equipment used in laboratory experiments and field testing. Assist in preparing technical reports, research documentation, and portions of scientific publications. Design and conduct small engineering research projects or perform major portions of larger engineering projects focused on preventing traumatic workplace injuries and fatalities. Plan and conduct engineering tests; collect, analyze, and interpret data from laboratory, field, and modeling studies. Prepare technical reports, contribute to scientific publications, and communicate engineering findings to multidisciplinary teams. Plan and conduct engineering studies and experimental evaluations. Analyze and interpret engineering data, assess system performance, and recommend improvements to engineering designs and methodologies using established engineering principles. Prepare technical reports, scientific publications, and presentations summarizing engineering methods and research findings.
What you need to qualify
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR Basic Qualifications: 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.) In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: GS-07 Minimum Qualifications: You must have one year specialized experience to perform successfully the duties of the position. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service performing ALL of the following: Assisting in the planning and conduct of engineering research projects or laboratory studies. Assisting in the setup, calibration, operation, and maintenance of laboratory or field instrumentation and engineering equipment. Collecting, organizing, and performing routine analyses of engineering or experimental data using systems such as Excel and MATLAB. -OR- Have 1 year of graduate-level education in a related field or superior academic achievement. -OR- Have a combination of experience and graduate education as described above. GS-09 Minimum Qualifications: You must have one year specialized experience to perform successfully the duties of the position. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service performing ALL of the following: Designing and conducting routine engineering tests or small-scale research projects. Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting engineering or experimental data using systems such as Excel and/or Python. Drafting test reports and publications and presenting findings to project leads. -OR- Have 2 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree. -OR- Have a combination of experience and graduate education as described above. GS-11 Minimum Qualifications: You must have one year specialized experience to perform successfully the duties of the position. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service performing ALL of the following: Designing and developing experimental engineering systems, components, or instrumentation to evaluate engineering performance using systems such as Python or MATLAB. Planning and conducting engineering experiments or analytical studies. Preparing and communicating technical findings to project managers and multidisciplinary teams. -OR- Have 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. -OR- Have a combination of experience and graduate education as described above. Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational application questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. In accordance with Office of Personnel Management policy, federal employees are assumed to have gained experience by performing duties and responsibilities appropriate for their official series and grade level as described in their position description. Experience that would not normally be part of the employee's position is creditable, however, when documented by satisfactory evidence, such as a signed memorandum from the employee's supervisor or an SF-50 or SF-52 documenting an official detail or other official assignment. The documentation must indicate whether the duties were performed full time or, if part time, the "percentage of times" the other duties were performed. It is expected that this documentation is included in the employee's official personnel record. In order to receive credit for experience in your resume that is not within the official series and grade level of your official position, you must provide a copy of the appropriate documentation of such experience as indicated above. 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; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to gain employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. If such experience is on a part-time basis, you must provide the average number of hours worked per week as well as the beginning and ending dates of the experience so it can be fully credited. OPM Qualification General Policies Website
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