Summary
This is a Public Notice for the use of the Direct Hire Authority in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 3327 and 3330 and 5 CFR 330. Non-Supervisory and Supervisory Civil and General Engineer positions may be filled under the OPM Government-Wide Direct Hire Authority for Certain STEM Positions for grades GS 11-15. There may or may not be actual vacancies at the time you submit your application. The agency may or may not make a selection from this notice/announcement.
Clarification from the agency
All US Citizens and Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL).
This Public Notice for Direct Hire will be used to gather applications that may or may not result in a referral or selection.
Duties
The initial cut-off for first consideration is November 30, 2023; applications received by this date will have the first opportunity for review. Applications received after this date will be given consideration if there is a need for further review.
- Resolves problems or develops proposals for the operation, maintenance, repair, and construction of field office facilities where knowledge of related engineering fields such as environmental, mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical engineering are required.
- Applies knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques of engineering applicable to the full range of engineering duties involved with the operation and maintenance of wastewater treatment facilities, canyon collectors, flood control channels and structures, and field office facilities.
- Applies knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques of engineering applicable to the full range of engineering duties involved with the operation and maintenance of dams.
- Prepares, oversees, and reviews reports such as work plans, capital plans, condition assessments, asset inventory, maintenance plans, risk assessment reports and construction updates.
- Prepares technical designs, reports, correspondence, and presentation material.
- Performs design review of construction drawings and specifications for civil and/or structural engineering systems.
- Strategizes to organize work, set priorities, and determine resource requirements for short and long-term goals, monitors the progress and evaluates the outcome.
- Conducts market research and prepares solicitation packets.
- Prepares justifications, scopes of work, cost estimates, project schedules, and requisitions for changes.
- Plans, budgets, and coordinates efforts and project execution.
- Resolves unofficial and official employee grievances.
- Performs administrative and managerial coordination duties.
- Actively promotes Equal Opportunity Employment (EEO) objectives of the Agency.
- Fosters an inclusive workplace where diversity and individual difference are valued and leveraged to achieve the Agency's vision and mission.
Conditions of Employment
- You must be a U.S. Citizen or Naturalized U.S. Citizen.
- You may be required to possess and maintain a valid U.S. Motor Vehicle Driver License, without impeding restrictions, and issued by a U.S. state, the District of Columbia, or a U.S. territory.
- Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
- You must maintain direct deposit of your federal pay.
- You may be required to enter Mexico to carry out official agency business.
- Positions have varying levels of background investigative requirements, you will be subject to satisfactory security and suitability requirements.
- You may be required to serve a one-year probationary period.
- You may be required to serve a one-year supervisory probationary period.
- You may be required to complete and file the Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) within 30 days of your appointment, and annually thereafter.
- You may be subject to on-call status under the agency Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP). In the event of an emergency, the agency may activate/deploy identified personnel to carry out essential functions and operations.
- You must be able to lift and carry up to 15 pounds unassisted.
- You may be required to successfully complete a pre-employment medical examination.
- You may be subject to a pre-employment drug test and pass periodic drug testing thereafter. A positive result will prevent employment or subject you to disciplinary action, up to removal from the position.
- You may be required to work overtime.
- Positions are located agency-wide and may be filled as permanent, term, temporary, or through temporary promotion with a full-time or part-time work schedule.
- Salary will be based on the grade and geographic location of the selectee.
- You may be required to travel with over night stay 15% of the time.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements. 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). Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.
The Specialized Experience listed below are examples of experience that vary by grade level and job series, each position may have separate or additional required experience necessary to meet the applicable series and/or grade.
GG-12 Specialized Experience: One year of work performed at the next lower grade/level in the federal service (GS/GG-11) or other equal federal pay systems as described below. There is no substitution of education for specialized experience at the GG-12 grade level.
GG-13 Specialized Experience: One year of work performed at the next lower grade/level in the federal service (GS/GG-12) or other equal federal pay systems as described below. There is no substitution of education for specialized experience at the GG-13 grade level.
GG-14 Specialized Experience: One year of work performed at the next lower grade/level in the federal service (GS/GG-13) or other equal federal pay systems as described below. There is no substitution of education for specialized experience at the GG-14 grade level.
GG-15 Specialized Experience: One year of work performed at the next lower grade/level in the federal service (GS/GG-14) or other equal federal pay systems as described below. There is no substitution of education for specialized experience at the GG-15 grade level.
Examples of Specialized Experience: applying knowledge and skill of the principles, methods, and techniques of engineering applicable to the full range of engineering duties involved with the operation and maintenance of wastewater treatment facilities, canyon collectors, flood control channel and structures, and field office facilities; applying knowledge of engineering fields such as mechanical, environmental, constructional, design, and electrical to resolve problems and/or develop proposals for the operations, maintenance, repair, and construction of field office facilities; advising and assisting with the procurement and replacement of equipment; evaluating recommendations and facts, and preparing specifications; monitoring the work of contractors and providing monthly updates; conducting market research and preparing solicitation packets; coordinating operations activities, including daily wastewater influent flows; overseeing and reviewing reports, work plans, capital plans, activities and work performed by contractors; preparing, reviewing, and evaluating scopes of work, proposals, and cost estimates for maintenance activities; planning and conducting detailed surface water studies pertaining to hydraulic and hydrologic engineering investigations; carrying out studies pertaining to reservoir flood operations, stage and flow duration, water surface profile calculations, discharge estimation, sizing of drainage structures, sediment deposition and volume calculations; evaluating existing and proposed flood operations criteria for effective ness and ease in implementation; performing Contract Officer's Representative (COR) duties for the administration of construction contracts; providing civil engineering guidance and input on the planning. design, construction, and rehabilitation of existing and/or new structures and facilities; reviewing designs to ensure the constructability, function, and that design assumptions are correct; participating in architect and engineer (A-E) contract task order selections; planning moderate to substantially complex project assignments; preparing contracts for solicitation of construction and equipment; performing design of and directing the development of construction drawings and developing specifications for civil, geotechnical, and/or structural engineering systems; conducting studies and providing engineering and geotechnical analyses and evaluations; planning, budgeting and coordinating efforts and project execution; skill in written and oral communication to interact effectively with personnel and state and federal representatives and officials;resolving unofficial and official employee grievances; performing administrative and managerial coordination duties.
College Teaching:College-level teaching of engineering may be considered as professional experience in engineering. In accepting and evaluating teaching experience, all specific qualification requirements pertaining to the evaluation of professional experience such as grade level, responsibility, scope, specialization, and knowledge required are also applicable to the evaluation of teaching experience. Teaching experience that is accompanied by a significant amount of research, direction of research, investigative, or similar work may be credited at full value in meeting a specific requirement for research, investigative, or similar experience.
Engineering Registration or Licensure Requirement:Where registration or licensure as a professional engineer is essential for appointment to certain, typically high-level, engineering positions such as 1) the responsibility for final approval of designs of major structures and facilities involving public safety where such compliance with State laws meets an essential need of the engineering organization to provide objective evidence to agency management and the public that the work is performed by engineers of proven competence; 2) responsibility for engineering determinations concerning contract awards or other major aspects of design and construction work to be performed by engineers in the private sector, where registration or licensure is essential to have their full confidence and respect to achieve cooperation on critical engineering issues.
Education
Basic Education Requirement
Education:
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.
Foreign Education: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that 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:
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html .
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Once the application process is complete, a review of your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine if you are qualified for this job. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility. Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following knowledge, skills, abilities or competencies:
- Engineering
- Oral Communication
- Planning and Evaluating
- Self-Management
- Writing
Your complete application includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire; and additional supporting document(s) that may be required for a qualifications determination.
All applicants are required to submit the following documents:
- Resume: Please include your name, contact information, employment dates (to and from), hours worked per week, and a detailed description for each job entry.
- Completed on-line occupational questionnaire.
- College transcripts: This position has a basic educational requirement. You are required to submit a copy of your transcript with your application package.
- Registration/License (if applicable): Active, current registration/license.
- Driver License (if applicable): A valid U.S. Motor Vehicle Driver License, without impeding restrictions, and issued by a U.S. state, the District of Columbia, or a U.S. territory.
- As determined by the position, additional documentation may be requested upon review of your application.
All Applicants Claiming Veterans' Preference should include the following documents as part of the application package:
- Veterans' Preference Documentation (if applicable): All Veterans: DD-214 (Member 4 copy is preferred), which includes character of service, or for Active Duty Service Members a certification which includes service dates, type of separation, and character of service. A "certification" is a written document from the armed forces that certifies the service member is expected to be discharged or released from active duty service in the armed forces under honorable conditions not later than 120 days after the date the certification is submitted.
- Disabled Veterans: VA Disability Letter (with percentage of disability) OR document of disability determination from a branch of the armed forces which reflects a compensable service-connected disability rating.
- Derived Preference: The spouse, widow/widower, or mother of a veteran may be eligible to claim veterans' preference when the veteran is unable to use it. To do so, you must submit an SF-15 www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf15.pdf and the documentation required by that form. Veterans Preference: For more information and/or to determine if you are eligible for Veterans' Preference, please visit www.fedshirevets.gov/job/vetpref/index.aspx (for veterans) or www.fedshirevets.gov/job/familypref/index.aspx (for family members). Below is a website for veterans to gain access to their DD-214 online: www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records and the documentation required by that form.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
To apply for this position, you must complete the Occupational Questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below.
Your complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 11/30/2023 to receive first consideration.
- To begin, click Apply Online to create a USAJOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USAJOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupational questionnaire.
- Click the Submit My Answers button to submit your application package.
- It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and appropriate documentation is submitted prior to the closing date.
- To verify your application is complete, log into your USAJOBS account, https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login select the Application Status link and then select the more information link for this position. The Details page will display the status of your application, the documentation received and processed, and any correspondence the agency has sent related to this application. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
- To return to an incomplete application, log into your USAJOBS account and click Update Application in the vacancy announcement. You must re-select your resume and/or other documents from your USAJOBS account or your application will be incomplete.https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12209887
Next steps
Once the online questionnaire is received, you will receive an acknowledgement email through USA Jobs that your submission was successful. You may be referred to the hiring official. If you are referred to the hiring official, you may be contacted directly by that office for a possible interview.
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