This position is located in the Bureau of Administration, Office for Operations, Office of Facilities Management Services, Domestic Environmental & Safety Division, Fire and Safety Branch The incumbent serves as a technical expert and is directly involved in planning, directing, and coordinating the fire protection engineering issues in all domestic buildings, including new construction, building alterations, and lease acquisitions.

Duties

Provides expert advice & guidance to officials, architects and engineers in other offices with the Dept on a broad range of fire protection issues. Technical authority for all fire protection engineering issues. Provides expert advise & guidance to officials, architects and engineers in other offices with the Dept on a broad range of fire protection issues about which there are technical and/or programmatic conflicts in order to negotiate solutions. Interprets guidelines, standards, policies and engineering criteria established by national organizations and the central office. Manages fire protection engineering portions of major new construction or renovation projects and incorporates. Manages fire protection engineering portions of major new construction or renovation projects, and incorporates fire protection design practices, equipment, and systems into all phases of design and construction. Inspects projects under construction to determine the adequacy of the design of fire protection features and compliance with plans, specifications, relevant fire codes, and regulations, as well as sound fire protection engineering principles. Prepares and processes technical studies, reports, papers on critical, complex fire protection engineering matters which influence current & future programs, including new fire suppression, protection, prevention systems, equipment and technologies.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Incumbent will be subject to random drug testing.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit: www.dhs.gov/E-Verify/

Qualifications

Applicants must meet all the required qualification requirements described below by the closing date of this announcement. If you are qualifying based on education OR if there are mandatory education requirements listed below, you MUST submit a copy of your college transcript with your application. NOTE: Applicants must meet time-in-grade and time after competitive appointment requirements, by the closing date of this announcement. Time-In-Grade Requirements: Federal applicants must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade to satisfy time-in-grade restrictions, per 5CFR 300, Subpart F. Applicants MUST meet one of the following Basic Requirements: A. Bachelor’s or Higher Degree: The program must be (1) 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 professional 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, 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 or higher 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.) Note: 1) Applicants who meets the Basic Requirements in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise; 2) Professional engineering experience required for grades GS-7 and above is defined as non-routine engineering work that required and was characterized by professional knowledge of engineering, professional ability to apply such knowledge to engineering problems, and positive and continuing development of professional knowledge and ability; 3) To be considered, applicants MUST submit transcripts and copies of professional registration and/or licensure to verify Basic Requirements by the closing date of the announcement. IN ADDITION to the basic requirements above, you MUST have 1 full year of specialized experience that is related to the work of the position, is equivalent to at least the GS-12 level in the Federal service, and demonstrates the following: Experience with concepts, theories, principles, and practices of fire protection engineering to plan, coordinate, review, and provide expert technical/engineering advice to federal and contractor architects, engineers, and other technical professionals impacted by the fire protection engineering program. Experience developing and enforcing national guide specifications, criteria, and technical guide specifications, criteria, codes, and technical guidelines or handbooks for use in construction and renovation projects. Experience collaborating with engineering fields including mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, as well as architectural aspects of building design in order to assess their impact on fire protection activities.

Education

See the qualifications section of this vacancy announcement for education requirements.

Contacts

• Address U.S. Department of State 600 19th Street, NW SA-17, 5th Floor Attn: A/EX/HRD Washington, District of Columbia 20522-1705 United States
• Name: Tracy LaMar
• Phone: 771-205-0151
• Email: [email protected]