This position is in the Quality Assurance and Materials Testing Division, Approval and Certification Center, Technical Support, Mine Safety and Health Administration. The Division is responsible for developing and implementing programs related to the quality assurance provisions of Title 30, Code of Federal Regulations (30 CFR) pertaining to mining products for which an approval action is required. This position is Outside the bargaining unit.

Duties

Supervises, controls, and manages activities of the Quality Assurance and Materials Testing Division personnel. Directs the work of personnel who assess and insure through technical evaluation, testing, review, audits, and inspections, that manufacturers, producers, and distributors of a wide variety of equipment and materials produced for mine use comply with MSHA regulations and criteria related to flammability, fire resistance, and fire safety.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be at least 16 years old.
• Requires a supervisory probationary period if the requirement has not been met.
• Subject to financial disclosure requirements.
• Requires a valid driver's license.

Qualifications

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must meet the eligibility requirements of time-in-grade (52 weeks at the next lower grade), time-after-competitive-appointment (90 days), and minimum qualifications (52 weeks equivalent to the next lower grade in federal service). These requirements must be met within 30 days of 10/11/2023 the announcement closing date. You must meet the Basic Requirements listed in the "Education Requirements" section and the "Specialized Experience" to qualify for the Supervisory General Engineer position as described below. Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (i.e., GS-13 for GS-14), in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the candidate with the knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position being filled and is non-routine engineering work that required and was characterized by (1) professional knowledge of engineering; (2) professional ability to apply such knowledge to engineering problems; and (3) positive and continuing development of professional knowledge and ability. For this position, specialized experience is defined as experience in quality assurance and material testing concepts, technology, accepted practices, principles, and state-of-the-art methods, acquired by experience and/or knowledge as applicable to mining products, to be able to serve as the Mine Safety and Health Administration expert and technical leader in establishing and maintaining a viable quality assurance organization and program. Examples of qualifying specialized experience for this position are (You must possess at least 5 of the 7 below bullets to qualify): Experience applying concepts, principles, and practices of engineering or science, particularly as they apply to the test and evaluation of mining equipment, components, instrumentation, materials, and products, and their use within surface and underground mine environments to serve as a technical expert in the full range of planning, developing, evaluating, and recommending program and regulatory changes in the applicable fields of technical investigations or mine product approval; Experience providing internal and external technical advice and assistance, and to address issues or actions related to the activities of the Division by utilizing the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, MINER Act of 2006, Title 30, U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Agency policies, objectives, missions, organizational structure, precedent-setting decisions, and administrative procedures relating to product approvals, as well as accident and field investigations to provide comprehensive technical guidance and instruction to team members, to address and resolve program operation issues, to solve complex technical problems; Experience analyzing product designs and applying engineering or scientific principles and practices to make sound determinations and seasoned judgments to develop criteria, new or revised regulations, and standards for innovative and/or complex equipment designs; Experience in quality assurance, risk assessments, and auditing programs as applied to internal and external processes; Experience investigating and resolving field complaints, including the ability to conceive, plan and initiate new or known solutions in order to prevent serious safety hazards to miners and reduce the possibility of mine fires, explosions, or other emergencies; Experience providing written material and oral expression to avoid misinterpretation when consulting with or presenting material to others and when representing MSHA at public hearings, and to clearly describe project assignments when directing team members; or, Participating in the development of MSHA short- and long-range goals.

Education

In addition to meeting the Specialized Experience, applicants must be the basic requirements.

0800 Basic 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.
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.).

Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise.

Any applicant falsely claiming an academic degree from an accredited school will be subject to actions ranging from disqualification from federal employment to removal from federal service.

If your education was completed at a foreign college or university, you must show comparability to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States and comparability to applicable minimum coursework requirements for this position. Click Evaluation of Foreign Education for more information.

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Contacts

• Address Mine Safety and Health Administration 200 Constitution Avenue NW Washington, DC 20210 US
• Name: Karen Goulet
• Phone: 214 909-8870
• Email: [email protected]