This position is with the Mine Safety and Health Administration/Pittsburgh Safety and Health Technology Center/Roof Control Division. The incumbent serves as a supervisor, technical specialist, and advisor. The incumbent is responsible for planning and directing underground evaluations and investigations addressing a wide range of ground control hazards. This position is Outside the bargaining unit.

Duties

Typical duties for this position include:

Requirements

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

Qualifications

You must meet Time in Grade, Basic Requirement (for either occupational series) listed below and the "Specialized Experience" to qualify for Interdisciplinary Supervisory General Engineer/ Supervisory Geologist, as described below. Time in Grade Requirement: 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 10/17/2023 the announcement closing date. Specialized Experience Requirement: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-12, in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position being filled. For this position, specialized experience is defined as performing professional work that demonstrates expert knowledge of the underground mining industry, systems, equipment, technology, developing solutions to difficult engineering and technological problems facing the industry. Examples of specialized experience include: Demonstrated experience in applying analytical evaluation methods and techniques in developing new procedures and approaches to identify and resolve significant issues and problems of a unique nature; Experience in testing and evaluating roof/ground support products, and applying engineering or scientific principles and practices to make sound technical determinations and seasoned judgments when developing criteria, new or revised regulations and standards for innovative and / or complex ground support systems; Experience in conducting reviews of MSHA actions related to fatal accidents, accident investigations, and field investigations where roof control is a factor; Ability to conceive, plan and initiate new or known solutions in order to prevent serious safety hazards to miners and reduce the possibility of coal bumps, rock bursts, massive pillar collapses, major roof failures or other emergencies. and, Possessing a thorough understanding of the requirements of the Mine Act, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR 30); MSHA's policies, procedures, guidelines and standards relative to the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977; and ASTM F432-Specification for Roof and Rock Bolts and Accessories. Please ensure examples like these are evident in your resume. This is an interdisciplinary position; each occupational series (0801 General Engineer and 1350 Geology) has its own basic requirement. You only need to meet one of the two basic requirements listed below to meet the "Basic Requirement" for this position: Basic Requirement for the 0801 Occupational Series: A degree in professional engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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 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 professional 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. OR, The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 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. 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. 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. 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.) For additional information on the education requirements for the 0801 occupational series, please visit: http://www.opm.gov/qualifications/SEC-IV/B/GS0800.HTM.

Education

Basic Requirement for the1350 Occupational Series:

A. Degree: geology, plus 20 additional semester hours in any combination of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological science, structural, chemical, civil, mining or petroleum engineering, computer science, planetary geology, comparative planetology, geophysics, meteorology, hydrology, oceanography, physical geography, marine geology, and cartography.

OR,

B. Combination of education and experience -- course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
Evaluation of Experience: Acceptable experience may have been gained through geological field or laboratory work that provided a means of obtaining professional knowledge of the theory and application of the principles of geology and closely related sciences, e. g., geophysics, geochemistry, or hydrology. Such work generally must have involved making close observations, taking samples, handling various types of instruments and equipment, assembling geologic data from source materials, and analyzing and reporting findings orally and in writing. Experience that involved only one phase of geology work, e. g., collecting samples, would not be acceptable as providing the required professional knowledge of the theory and principles of geology. In some situations, professional scientific experience in other fields may be accepted in part as professional geological experience. Such experience must have been preceded by appropriate education in geology or by professional geological experience, and must have contributed directly and significantly to the applicant's professional geological competence. Examples include some positions in geophysics, mining engineering, soils science, physical oceanography, hydrology, climatology, biology, analytic or experimental chemistry, metallurgy, and comparable fields where the normal duties or results of investigations have been extended to the solution of geologic problems by the applicant. Ordinary functions of positions such as seismic, computer, petroleum or mining engineer, mine superintendent, or metallurgist generally are not considered professional geological experience. To receive credit for geological experience obtained in positions that are not full-time professional geological positions, the applicant is responsible for indicating clearly the actual time or percentage of time devoted to geologic duties within such positions, and for giving adequate descriptions of the geologic functions.

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 course work 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]