This position is with the Alaska Region, Engineering and Aviation Staff and may be filled at one or more of the duty locations. Final determination of duty location will be made by the hiring manager at time of the job offer. As the Regional Environmental Engineering Program Manager is responsible for developing and implementing Regional policies, plans, directives and guidance For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Jordan Hall at [email protected].

Duties

Exercises primary oversight and management responsibility for all environmental compliance and protection program areas for the Region. Provides technical program direction and staff coordination for all environmental quality program requirements. Serves as Environmental Compliance and Protection (ECAP) and Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) Programs Manager to evaluate compliance and effectiveness of the program with major environmental laws. Provides Regional policies and strategies to clean up and restore contaminated NFS lands and facilities to a safe or productive state. Ensures environmental compliance through the use of external environmental compliance audits of Forest Service operations, facilities, and permitted activities, and through extensive employee training. Coordinates and prepares other environmental status reports required by the EPA and USDA. Serves as Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) Coordinator. Serves as Regional HAZMAT Coordinator with responsibility for coordination of storage, handling, use and disposal of hazardous materials and wastes in the Region. Develops policy, procedures, standards, and guidelines relating to sanitary and environmental compliance activities for Regional application. Serves as technical consultant and advisor to the Regional Forester, Staff Directors, Group Leaders, and Forest line and staff officers on all environmental compliance and protection requirements. Serves as a team member on various regional reviews, inspections, and audits, and on an individual basis provides functional assistance to the Forests.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Successful completion of one year probationary period, unless previously served.
• Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license.

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary. This is an interdisciplinary position and may be filled in any of the job series listed below. Basic Requirement: See Education Section In addition to meeting the basic requirement shown in the Education Section, you must also possess experience and/or directly related education in the amounts listed below. Specialized Experience Requirement: For the GS-13 Level: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level. Examples of specialized experience are: Serve as the primary contact on environmental matters such as the overall technical administration, evaluation and control of air quality, water quality, non-toxic and hazardous / toxic waste disposal, hazardous material control and subject programs; develop and establishes plans and procedures for regulatory compliance and use; e.g., Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure plans, Hazardous Waste Minimization, Pollution Prevention plans, Environmental Protection and Enhancement Regulation, CAA, CERCLA, RCRA, CWA, SDWA, TSCA and OSHA; provide advisory, consulting, reviewing and other services with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for CERCLA projects involving clean- up, abandoned, or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites; review and evaluates environmental management programs and policies for compliance with current applicable environmental laws, regulations, and directives such as Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and pertinent agency regulations; identify, defines, and resolves major problems encountered during the planning/execution phase of environmental projects relating to assigned programs which may adversely impact upon water, air and other natural resources; develop and evaluate proposed actions to ensure technical and administrative quality and compliance with National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) as well as directives related to environmental engineering program area. 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

GS-0800 Series
Degree: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included a major field of study in professional engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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 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:

Professional registration -- Current registration as a professional engineer 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 Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for professional registration, which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

Applicants who have passed the EIT examination and have completed all the requirements for either (a) a bachelor's degree in engineering technology (BET) from an accredited college of university that included 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences, or (b) a BET from a program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) may be rated eligible for certain engineering positions at GS-5. Eligibility is limited to positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of the engineering technology program. Applicants for positions that involve highly technical research, development, or similar functions requiring an advanced level of competence in basic science must meet the basic requirements in paragraph A.

Because of the diversity in kind and quality of BET programs, graduates of other BET programs are required to complete at least 1 year of additional education or highly technical work experience of such nature as to provide reasonable assurance of the possession of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for professional engineering competence. The adequacy of this background must be demonstrated by passing the EIT examination.

Specified academic courses -- 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. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described for a degree.

Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

Contacts

• Address USDA Forest Service HRM Contact Center DO NOT MAIL IN APPLICATIONS, SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT. Albuquerque, NM 87109 US
• Name: HRM Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-372-7248 X2
• Email: [email protected]