Job opening: General Engineer
Salary: $128 931 - 172 073 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Aug 17 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
Explore a new career with the BLM - where our people are our most precious resource.
This position is located within the Business Management and Administration Directorate, Division of Business, Engineering and Evaluations, with the Engineering and Asset Management Branch.
We expect to fill one vacancy at this time; however, additional positions may be filled from this announcement if they become available.
Duties
A national lead for specific engineering program, provides leadership in evaluating issues, analysis for the program decisions and developing and implementing options affecting program goals.
Provides policy oversight for the development and operation of data bases, information systems etc., to communicate accurate information to the Group Manager for reporting to Administration, Congress and affected parties.
Develops policies guidance and oversight for the operation and maintenance and/or transportation network projects to improve facilities and/or transportation infrastructure and/or dam safety.
Prepares and presents oral and written reports and formal briefings to communicate the national and international significance of Bureau facilities policies, problems and issues to non-technical decision-makers.
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship is required. Direct Deposit Required.
- Be sure to read the "How to Apply" and "Required Documents" Sections.
- You cannot hold an active real estate license; nor can you have an interest or hold stocks in firms with interest in Federal Land.
- DOI uses E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit: www.dhs.gov/e-verify
- Appointment will be subject to a favorably adjudicated background/suitability investigation/determination.
- May require a one-year probationary period.
Qualifications
In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the qualification requirements - please be sure to include this information in your resume. No assumptions will be made about your experience.
In addition to meeting the education requirement, you must possess one (1) full year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level that is equivalent in difficulty and complexity as indicated by the following example: 1) Using general engineering theories, principles, concepts, standards, and methods of engineering programs and projects; 2) organizing, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating engineering designs, identifying problems and/or deficiencies, and making predictions related to constructability, operability, and longevity; 3) Keeping abreast of changes, in scientific knowledge and engineering technology; 4) experience with project partnering, change management, and contract procedures; 5.) ability to draft engineering or facility maintenance management policy or step-down policy for approval by leadership; 6.) experience communicating verbally and in writing on complex engineering issues to wide variety of internal and external audiences, including high level officials.
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.
You must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
Federal employees in the competitive service are also subject to the Time-In-Grade requirement in accordance with 5 CFR 300.604. If you are a current Federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks at the next lower grade level.
Education
This position has a positive education requirement which requires that you have a degree in engineering or a combination of education and experience as described above. You must submit copies of all transcripts or a list of college courses that include hours and grades from an accredited U.S. college/university. See Required Documents section for more information. If your degree is from a Foreign Institution
See Foreign Education.
Basic qualifications requirements: 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) 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
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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 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)1, 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) 2 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 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.)
Contacts
- Address BLM, Headquarters Office
BLM, National Operations Center, HR-250
Denver Federal Center, Building 50
P.O. Box 25047
Denver, CO 80225
US
- Name: HQ/NOC HR
- Phone: 303-236-6421
- Email: [email protected]