Duties
Plans, directs, coordinates and/or manages facility design and construction projects or project phases related to major organizational functions, programs, or initiatives. Overcomes and resolves technical, project management, and organizational problems using innovative and original approaches. Plans, guides, coordinates, and manages the work of subordinate, secondary, and matrixed resources engaged in accomplishing the missions and functions of the organization.
Performs periodic review and analysis to assess achievement of major goals. Provides engineering analysis for special projects, future projects, and advanced planning of new systems and capabilities of all applicable agency programs and areas of concern and responsibility. Participates in preliminary and critical design reviews and determines, develops, and defends requirements. Responsible for operations maintenance and sustaining engineering planning and execution.
In coordination with the Chief, Facility Services, the incumbent consults with internal and external stakeholders related to facility construction, major renovation projects, planning, management, fire safety systems, environmental control, and other related matters. Advises stakeholders of agency policies and requirements applicable to construction and major renovation projects. May represent the Chief, Facility Services at meetings and conferences within or outside the Library.
Directs, manages, plans, and conducts a variety of diverse architectural, engineering, analytical, and/or evaluative studies related to the assessment of the Library's facilities construction program which may include multipurpose designs characterized by environmental variables or other unknowns. Provides planning, recommendations and advice for determining resources in terms of facilities furnishings and equipment that are necessary to accomplish program goals; determines strategies for achieving program goals within budgetary constraints. Performs management and/or oversight duties in the development of preliminary and conceptual design processes as well as the detailed design of facilities, systems, structures, or equipment. Prepares or reviews, within delegated authority, budgetary estimates prepared by subordinate engineers and contract engineers for large, complex, or costly projects. Reviews cost estimates to ensure consideration of all economical influences that impact cost. Prepares detailed cost estimates to support contract negotiations and procurement requests. Applies the principles of engineering economics such as present worth, cost/benefit, and life cycle analysis.
Performs contract development and monitoring activities for planning and design support activities and construction projects. Responsible for the procurements related to major projects, serving as Contracting Officer Representative (COR) representing the Contracting Officer (CO) in technical project execution. Evaluates requirements that will necessitate contract development. Determines whether in-house personnel or contractors will accomplish projects; develops technical requirements, decides methods and types of contracts necessary to meet project or task order needs; resolves disputes that arise. Prepares necessary administrative paperwork, including specific requirements, statement(s) of work (SOW), project schedules, cost estimates, market research report(s), and vendor lists. Determines standard and project management controls for inclusion in SOW products that are incorporated into contracts. Contracts often entail the development of highly complex contractual agreements involving extensive cost and price analysis, special pricing arrangement, and careful and extensive evaluations of contractor qualifications and capabilities. Assists the CO with contract negotiation(s). Evaluates technical proposals, through review of written proposal and technical shop drawings; conducts site visits; amends SOWs as required. Provides technical guidance and reviews planning consultant contracts, including determination of reasonableness of cost, to ensure that selection is in accordance with professional services procurement requirements. Approves payments. Reviews benefit/cost and life-cycle cost analyses. Develops SOWs for task orders and follows up on contracts, solving difficulties that may arise between award of contract and final installation/deliverable.
Relocation expenses will not be authorized for the person(s) selected under this vacancy announcement.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
Conditions of Employment
Library of Congress employees are prohibited from using illegal drugs, including marijuana. The Library is part of the Federal Government and abides by federal law, so regardless of individual state or District of Columbia laws, marijuana use is illegal, considered criminal activity, and can affect your employment at the Library. In addition, past or current drug use and activities (e.g., selling or distributing) may deem you ineligible for employment.
Qualifications
Applicants must have had progressively responsible experience and training sufficient in scope and quality to furnish them with an acceptable level of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position without more than normal supervision.
Ability to apply knowledge of architectural and engineering design, construction, and office renovation planning, space utilization, ergonomic principles, and related standards.**
Ability to manage projects.**
Ability to apply technology. **
Ability to comprehend and assimilate technical information.
Ability to write technical documents.
Ability to interact collaboratively with others, exercising judgment and discretion in order to provide consultation and liaison services.
Ability to communicate effectively other than in writing.
Education
Basic Requirements:
- 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
- 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:
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.
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.
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.
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.)
You must submit a legible copy of your college/university transcripts to your online application. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable at the time of application. Official transcripts will be required if selected. Failure to submit the required legible documentation at the time of application will result in disqualification of your application.
Foreign Education – Education completed outside the U.S. must be deemed equivalent to conventional/accredited U.S. education programs to be acceptable for Federal employment. If your college/university is outside the U.S., your transcripts must be accompanied by a report from a credential evaluation service that is a member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) or the Association of International Credentials Evaluators (AICE). Failure to submit a foreign education evaluation report will result in disqualification of your application.
Benefits
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How to Apply
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Next steps
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