Job opening: ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER
Salary: $88 521 - 114 366 per year
Published at: Jul 27 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.
Duties
You will develop in coordination with NAVFAC program priorities, instructions, and guidelines for the applicable Navy Environmental programs in the area of responsibility.
You will plan and conduct special studies for activities on the applicable programs for this position.
You will provide expert technical assistance on all aspects of those programs.
You will serve as the instructor in formal classroom training sessions and in on-the-job training.
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. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
- 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.
- Per the preliminary nationwide injunction on E.O. 14043, COVID-19 vaccinations will not be implemented or enforced. For more information on vaccine status and workplace safety protocol requirements see Additional Information below.
- 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 security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
- 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.
- You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.
- This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
- The employee may be assigned to a similar position at any site or workstation within the local commuting area.
- Employee will proactively pursue completion of training required by the CI Community Management Plan and the employee's Individual Development Plan (IDP).
Qualifications
This position has a selective placement factor that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates. The selective placement factor is: CURRENT Registration as a Professional Engineer (PE) in a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States is required. You must submit a copy of your PE registration with your application package.
In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 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) Developing program priorities, instructions and guidelines for Navy environmental compliance programs; 2) Conducting internal and external environmental management system (EMS) and compliance audits of Navy installations; 3) Serving on Architect/Engineer contract selection board for the establishment of new contracts and serve as Contracting Officers Representative on task orders; and 4) Managing and executing requirements for Environmental Compliance programs, such as, Clean Water Act, Army Corps of Engineer Permitting, Oily Waste/Spill Management, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Safe Drinking Water Act. NOTE: This experience must be fully supported in your resume.
Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=GS-PROF and
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf
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.
Physical Demands: Occasional physical activity is required including walking, light carrying-of materials and equipment, climbing or bending in the performance of fieldwork, for designs and during field inspections of existing and/or new facilities during design and construction. All fieldwork is performed in conformance with applicable health and safety requirements. The work requires travel to areas under NAVFAC Pacific's AOR.
Work Environment: Work is usually performed in an office setting with occasional visits to construction or industrial sites. The work involves moderate risks or discomforts that require special safety precautions while in the presence of construction or industrial operations and operating equipment. Employees may be required to use protective clothing or gear, such as hard-hats, coats, boots, goggles, gloves, or shields.
Travel to CONUS and OCONUS activities for assigned projects may be required. There are occasional factory visits, and exposures to conditions in buildings and facilities that are under construction. Travel under demanding conditions in support of military operations is also occasionally required. The incumbent receives health and safety training and participates in the medical surveillance program operated by the Naval Medical Clinic.
Education
Applicants 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: http://www.nspe.org
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: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.
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 under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (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.
Contacts
- Address NAVAL FACILITIES ENG SYSTEMS COMMAND PAC
Naval Facilities Engineering Command
PAC
Pearl Harbor, HI 96860
US
- Name: Wendi Kanenaga
- Phone: 808-472-1245
- Email: [email protected]
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