This position is with Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid Atlantic (NAVFAC MIDLANT), Environmental Business Line, Environmental Planning and Conservation Branch, Environmental Planning Department, at Naval Station Norfolk, in Norfolk, VA

Duties

You will exercise standard practices, methods, and techniques to perform relatively limited assignments in dealing with academic and scientific theories and basic principles of environmental planning. You will review environmental data submitted or available on a specific project to determine potential impacts and the need for and type of environmental documentation required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). You will serve as Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) on A/E contracts and task orders to ensure preparation of technically sound, compliant, safe, timely, and cost-effective products. You will work with a variety of software applications, budgeting, travel, and presentations; and conforms to command safety program. You will review and prepare for Environmental Impacts Statements (EISs), in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and related special environmental studies You will review projects involving various environmental planning requirements. You will project data and to determine potential environmental impacts for routine projects. You will professionally represent the Navy in meetings and conferences with leadership, state and federal regulatory agencies and the public on environmental planning issues.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain a current valid United States driver’s license.
• You will be required to complete ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, within 30 days of appointment.
• You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card to make official government purchases for goods and services.
• You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.
• This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Acquisition Functional Area and category assigned to the position is required within established category timeframes.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Assessing the environmental impacts of proposed shore command operations, training and construction actions; 2) Reviewing environmental data on projects to determine potential impacts and the need for environmental documentation under National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA); 3) Preparing and reviewing environmental documents and ensuring compliance with all relevant environmental consultation and permitting requirements including the Endangered Species Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, state coastal zone management requirements, Marine Mammal Protection Act, and federal/state wetland and floodplain laws and regulations; 4) Developing environmental planning policy documents to ensure compliance with DoD and DON regulations, policies and procedures; 5) Leading or being a part of an interdisciplinary team to support the development of environmental planning documents; 6) Communicating, through written or oral means, the environmental impacts of proposed shore command operations, training and construction actions to non-environmental staff and leadership. In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Assessing the environmental impacts of proposed federal actions such as shore command operations, training and construction actions. 2) Reviewing environmental data on projects to determine potential impacts and the need for environmental documentation under NEPA. 3) Determining relevant environmental consultation and permitting requirements including the Endangered Species Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, state coastal zone management requirements, Marine Mammal Protection Act, and federal/state wetland and floodplain laws and regulations. 4) Ensuring environmental planning policy documents to ensure compliance with federal environmental planning regulations, policies and procedures. 5) Participating on interdisciplinary teams to support the development of documents. 6) Communicating, through written or oral means, environmental impacts to non-environmental staff and leadership. (NOTE: Your answer must be supported by information in your resume.) Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Community Planning Series 0020 (opm.gov) General Natural Resources Management and Biological Sciences Series 0401 (opm.gov) Environmental Engineering Series 0819 (opm.gov) General Physical Science Series, 1301 (opm.gov) Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess

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1. Degree: community planning; or related field such as urban affairs, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, sociology, geography, economics, political science, or public administration that included at least 12 semester hours in the planning process, socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, urban and regional economic analysis, and development finance.

   Note: Applicants with degrees in related fields, such as those listed above, who do not have the 12 semester hours of specified course work must have had at least 1 year of work experience in community planning acquired under the supervision and guidance of a community planner.

   or

2. Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in one of the above disciplines, or a combination of related courses totaling at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the above disciplines of which at least 12 semester hours were in the planning process, and socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
   
   
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3. Degree: biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position.

   or

4. Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
   
   0819

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 1 For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org. 2 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. 2 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 allinclusive.)

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1. Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics.

   or

2. Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Contacts

• Address NAVFAC ENGINEERING CMD MID-ATLANTIC 9324 Virginia Ave Norfolk, VA 23511 US
• Name: Tanya Simpson
• Phone: (757) 559-1421
• Email: [email protected]