This position is located at Bureau of Engraving and Printing within the OFFICE OF FACILITIES SUPPORT. As a MECHANICAL ENGINEER, you will assist in utility infrastructure and facility renovation activities at the BEP Washington, DC facility, i.e., acquisition and support; engineering and integration; quality, testing and evaluation; programmatic activities; and logistics and maintenance aspects.

Duties

These are the duties at the GS-13. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties and will receive training to help you grow in this position. As a MECHANICAL ENGINEER, you will: Perform engineering analyses on utility systems and components to ensure proper operation system integrity. Such analyses may include manual calculations, specialized selection or sizing software, and computer modeling. Assist in performing analyses to ensure that the plants/systems/components operate at acceptable efficiency and reliability. Examples of utility systems include (heating, ventilation and air conditioning, compressed air, chilled water, process cooling water, vacuum, trim collection, wiping solution distribution, and electrical distribution). Conduct long term strategic planning for utility systems, plants, and assets in support of US currency manufacturing. Serve as on-site technical expert for mechanical engineering designs for utility systems. Designs include equipment selections, control schemes, implementation strategies, drawings, and specifications. Develop engineering designs and advises on design and contract proposals for various types of mechanical systems, processes, and equipment for use in US currency manufacturing.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Specialized experience for the GS-13 is one (1) year of experience at the GS-12 level or equivalent, that is directly related to the position as listed in this announcement and which has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience is defined as: Communicating analysis information through oral discussions/presentations and written fact sheets/reports; AND Applying engineering principles and concepts in order to research, interpret and carry out assignments; AND Providing assistance for investigating, analyzing, and correcting adverse utility system trends or conditions; AND Developing complex projects from conceptual state through implementation; AND Develops operation and maintenance strategies for equipment and systems. Specialized experience for the GS-12 is one year of experience at the GS-11 level or equivalent, that is directly related to the position as listed in this announcement and which has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience is defined as: Communicating analysis information through oral discussions/presentations and written fact sheets/reports; AND Applying engineering principles and concepts in order to research, interpret and carry out assignments; AND Providing assistance for investigating, analyzing, and correcting adverse utility system trends or conditions; AND Developing complex projects from conceptual state through implementation. Specialized experience for the GS-11 is one (1) year of experience at the GS-09 level or equivalent, that is directly related to the position as listed in this announcement and which has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience is defined as: Communicating analysis information through oral discussions/presentations and written fact sheets/reports; AND Applying engineering principles and concepts in order to research, interpret and carry out assignments; AND Providing assistance for investigating, analyzing, and correcting adverse utility system trends or conditions. OR Education: 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. OR You may qualify by a combination of experience and education.

Education

The education generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. If you are qualifying based on foreign education, you must submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. Refer to the OPM instructions.

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.

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 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 OFFICE OF FACILITIES SUPPORT Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]