Job opening: Mechanical Engineer
Salary: $112 015 - 145 617 per year
Published at: Aug 15 2023
Employment Type: Full-Time
Serve as an expert in the discipline of mechanical engineering in the providing highly professional technical expertise in the design and coordination of complex and sophisticated projects involving the construction, renovation and repair of facilities occupied by the Federal Government.
Location of Position: General Services Administration (GSA) Public Buildings Service (PBS), National Capital Region (NCR), Washington DC Metropolitan area (WPMAB).
Duties
Major Duties include:
Requirements
- Meet all eligibility requirements within 30 days of the closing date.
- Meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days of closing date
- US Citizenship or National (Residents of American Samoa and Swains Island)
- Register with the Selective Service if you are a male born after 12/31/1959
- You must submit a photocopy of your college transcript(s)
Qualifications
For each job on your resume, provide:
the exact dates you held each job (from month/year to month/year)
number of hours per week you worked (if part time).
If you have volunteered your service through a National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, Americorps), we encourage you to apply and include this experience on your resume.
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NOTE: Qualifications are based on length and level of experience. Therefore, in addition to describing duties performed, applicants must provide the exact dates of each period of employment (from month/year to month/year) and the number of hours per week if part time. Qualification determinations cannot be made when resumes do not include the required information, so failure to provide this information may result in disqualification. For a brief video on How to Create a Federal Resume, click here.
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). AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, and other national service alumni are encouraged to apply.
The GS-13 salary range starts at $112,015 per year.
If you are a new federal employee, your starting salary will likely be set at the Step 1 of the grade for which you are selected.
BASIC REQUIREMENTS FOR ENGINEERS: A Degree in professional engineering OR a combination of college level education, training, and/or technical experience. For specifics on qualifying education and/or experience use the following link: Basic Requirements for Engineer Positions.
A. 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) and 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.ORB. 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: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. (Must provide with your application.)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. (Must provide with your application.)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 in the above paragraph. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in the above paragraph.4. 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.)
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:
In addition to the Basic Requirements stated above, candidates must possess one year of specialized experience. Specialized experience is defined as: Experience preparing mechanical engineering design analysis, plans, and specifications for building mechanical, plumbing, and control systems of limited complexity and scope as well as commissioning of those systems. Experience includes identifying and recommending solutions to correct equipment and system malfunctions in building mechanical, plumbing, and control systems.
Contacts
- Address GSA, Public Buildings Service
General Services Administration
Human Resources (CPN)
1800 F Street NW 7th Floor
Washington, District of Columbia 20405
United States
- Name: Mary Robinson
- Phone: 202-717-1572
- Email: [email protected]
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