This position serves as a Civil Engineer for the Office of Airports (ARP), Memphis Airports District Office (ADO) in the Southern Region, in support of the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). The Memphis ADO serves as the principal Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) organization responsible for all airport program matters in airport design, construction, maintenance, operations and safety.

Duties

Review and comment on engineering design drawings, specifications, construction safety, and phasing plans for compliance with established requirements. Conduct field inspections and review status reports/project closeout reports to ensure technical compliance and alignment with project requirements; identify areas of non-compliance and provide resolution to complex problems/issues. Participate in pre-design, preconstruction and construction meetings to ensure conformance with FAA approved project documents. Ensure development projects meet FAA regulations, standards, and guidance. Develop presentation for conveying technical information. Perform multiple, varying, and complex assignments to ensure timeliness and technical compliance. Define, plan, and organize assigned resources to accomplish organizational objectives. Visit airports and current and proposed construction sites to observe construction progress and perform construction inspections to ensure acceptable levels of safety are provided. Review, evaluate and make recommendations on all aspects of the Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants-in-aid program regarding the Airports Capital Improvement Plan (ACIP) and/or Passenger Facility Charge (PFC) funding eligibility, justification, and conformance with the approved Airport Layout Plan (ALP). Review professional services contracts, including change orders and supplemental agreements to determine eligibility of work. Serve as the primary contact with local, state, and federal officials in the coordination, evaluation, and approval of federal grants for airports. Collaborate with pubic airport investment of federal funds. Negotiate with non-agency officials to resolve areas of conflict. Review and make recommendations to ADO Management and Airports Regional office regarding requests for Modification of Standards(MOS) for design and construction documents. Participate in runway safety meetings and make recommendations to management regarding funding allocations for any recommended runway safety projects. Review and process aeronautical studies. Coordinate with other FAA divisions regarding reimbursable agreements and projects that may affect an FAA facility or operation. Prepares correspondence for review by management including Congressional responses, briefing papers, approval letters, and guidance to sponsors associated with all aspects of airport development. Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• US Citizenship is required.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• This position has a positive education requirement. Transcript(s) required.
• Successful completion of a security investigation will be required.
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from an ABET Accredited School.

Qualifications

In addition to the basic requirement listed below in the EDUCATION section, to qualify for the FV-I position, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the FV-H or FG/GS-12. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.Specialized experience should include:*Experience reviewing and commenting on project engineering design drawings and specifications, including construction safety phasing plans.*Experience in identifying and resolving complex airport engineering problems/issues.*Experience in making recommendations on airport improvements.*Experience conveying technical airport engineering information to a variety of audiences.Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration.As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA. In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate.In addition to the minimum qualifications, the following has been determined to be a selective factor for this position. This means possession of this criterion is part of the minimum qualifications and is essential to perform the duties and responsibilities of this position. Applicants who do not possess this criterion are ineligible for further consideration.Selective Placement Factor - Demonstrated experience in airport design, construction standards and methods. IMPORTANT: Ensure that your work experience supports your Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) answers. Your answers and associated work experience will be evaluated further to validate whether the answers that you selected are appropriate.

Education

This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcement to verify qualifications. If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment. You may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS or fax it to fax number provided in the announcement (please include announcement number on each page).

Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration.

Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Accreditation may be verified at the following website: www.ed.gov/accreditation.

Foreign education must be evaluated by a private professional organization specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials or an accredited U.S. educational institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired at an American college or university. A copy of the evaluation results must be included, otherwise your foreign education will not be considered.

To qualify for this position you must also have a degree in professional 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

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.)

Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

Contacts

• Address Federal Aviation Administration ASO Regional HR Services Branch 1701 Columbia Avenue AHF-S510 College Park, GA 30337 US
• Name: Angela Southerland
• Phone: 1 (404) 305-5424
• Email: [email protected]