The incumbent will serve as a Mechanical Engineer with a special emphasis in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems (HVAC). The work includes the identification of future Center needs; assisting in the preparation of engineering and budgetary documentation; reviewing engineering designs; and acting as project manager on facility design and construction projects.

Duties

Duties described below are at the full-performance level. Duties assigned at a lower grade level will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity; duties will be commensurate with the grade of selected employee. Acts as a Project Engineer, with the responsibility of coordinating all phases of engineering, construction, and inspection of construction, renovation, and repair projects. Develops or coordinates a broad range of facilities engineering management activities covering a variety of complex facilities. Accomplishes varied and complex project management duties in conjunction with coordinating project teams and makes decisions affecting areas of responsibility that are controversial and precedent setting. Prepares design, specifications, cost estimates and supervises drafting effort for mechanical engineering projects. Provides extensive coordination with multi-discipline engineering teams. Performs analysis of facilities mechanical systems and develops the scope and requirements for construction, rehabilitation or repair projects to maintain facilities, improve operations or provide to facilities to meet new requirements. Prepares outlines of services, scopes of work, construction estimates, or engineering fee estimates for work to be performed by private architectural-engineering firm personnel. Troubleshoots facilities mechanical systems, such as HVAC and provides sound engineering recommendations for repair or improvements. Supports the Facilities Management Branch in overseeing all campus mechanical systems (i.e. chillers, hydronic condensing boilers, propane distribution, ground source heat pumps, ductwork, fresh air systems, and HVAC controls). Performs design reviews of mechanical system installations or modifications to existing infrastructure.

Requirements

• This position is open to U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
• Position subject to pre-employment background investigation.
• You must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
• This position may require a one year probationary period.

Qualifications

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. To qualify for GS-12, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level: Supporting engineering, planning, or design activities to fulfill project objectives; Supporting mechanical systems troubleshooting, maintenance, or repair activities; and Supporting mechanical systems (i.e. chillers, hydronic condensing boilers, propane distribution, ground source heat pumps, ductwork, fresh air systems, HVAC controls, etc.), design, or construction activities related to facilities. To qualify for GS-13, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level: Participating in engineering, planning, or design activities to fulfill project objectives; Performing mechanical systems troubleshooting, maintenance, or repair activities; and Working in the areas of mechanical systems (i.e. chillers, hydronic condensing boilers, propane distribution, ground source heat pumps, ductwork, fresh air systems, HVAC controls, etc.), design, planning, or construction for facilities. Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job.

Education

You must have successfully completed 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 in 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

Have a 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 individuals 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 individual 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.
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.
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 you have 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.)

U.S. degrees must have been awarded from colleges or universities that are accredited by recognized accrediting organizations. For a list of schools that meet this criteria, go to http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs. These education credentials must be deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

All degrees must have been received in the year of, or any year subsequent to the original date of accreditation.

Contacts

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