SUPERVISORY INTERDISCIPLINARY GENERAL ENGINEER/ARCHITECT (SENIOR with Security Clearance
Duties
- You will provide supervision, assistance and guidance to other designers, engineers/architects, or other NAVFAC codes as appropriate, exercising management and administrative skills in the execution of Capital Improvement projects.
- You will provide design management/leadership, criteria and code interpretation, and training and mentoring in the area of design to the technical staff within the component.
- You will assign work to subordinates based on priorities, considering the difficulty and requirements of the assignments, the type of work, existing workload, and the capabilities of the employees.
- You will plan, design, and sketch overall solutions for architectural and engineering features of various complex and usually difficult projects for preliminary and final design purposes.
- You will provide advice and recommendations concerning general architectural and engineering methods and systems as necessary to develop and coordinate projects for design, repair, alteration, rehabilitation, installation, improvement, or demolition.
- You will perform basic architectural and/or engineering studies and investigations to determine the most economical methods of fulfilling a program requirement.
- You will analyze building systems loading, determine program requirements, ensure compliance with national and local building codes and all Navy/Department of Defense criteria, and obtain field data to analyze and develop engineering requirements.
- Must be a US Citizen.
- Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
- Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
- New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level.
Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
- Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
- Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
- You will be required to obtain and maintain a current valid United States driver's license.
- You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final secret security clearance prior to entrance on duty.
- You will be required to complete ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, within 30 days of appointment.
- This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA).
- You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.
- This position may require occasional travel from normal duty station.
- Supervisors in the executive branch have a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics.
- This position requires current registration as a Professional Engineer (PE) or Architect (RA) from any state, the District of Columbia, Guam or Puerto Rico.
- You may be required to wear personal protective equipment such as helmets, gloves, coveralls, glasses, goggles, respirators and safety shoes when making site visits, as determined by site conditions and applicable safety regulations.
Qualifications This position has a selective placement factor that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates.
The selective placement factor is: You must currently be a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) or a Registered Architect (RA).Your license or registration must be held in any State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.
NOTE: You must submit a copy of your current license or registration with your application package.
A copy of a wall certificate that does not show your current registration status will not serve to verify this requirement.In addition to the SPF and Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.
Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Supervising/leading multi-disciplined engineers, architects, and designers engaged in providing engineering and design services; 2) Providing consultative services to solve problems on program and project management issues of architectural and engineering activities for facilities construction; 3) Developing and monitoring multi-million dollar projects to establish project execution schedules (timely execution of permits, site approvals and real estate actions; monitoring the solicitation and award processes; and tracking projects during construction) which form the basis for funding future projects; 4) Communicating effectively to professionals through oral and written expression to by fielding questions, de-conflicting issues, and defending policies; 5) Delivering technical products and services by following the standards, codes and practices of engineering and architecture regulations; and 6) Reviewing plans and designs prepared by both in-house and AE consultants for accuracy, adequacy and economy of design, choice of materials, completeness, practicability and safety as well as to determine conformance of technical guidance, criteria and good construction practices.
NOTE: This information must be fully supported in your resume.
Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).
Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.Education Applicants for the 0801 Professional Engineering Series must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree.
To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) 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.
Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.OR 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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: OR 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, and Puerto Rico The FE examination is not administered by the U.
S. Office of Personnel Management.
For more information, please visit: OR Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements above.
The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described above.OR 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 one 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.
Applicants for the 0808 Professional Arch