NLM is a dynamic institution looking for an engineer to lead planning and design work for new construction, renovation, and improvement projects for a variety of facilities, working closely with key personnel from the National Institutes of Health. You will serve as a Senior staff member working in a team-oriented, forward-looking, positive environment at a distinguished institution. Come join us and put your engineering knowledge to work for the benefit of the world!

Duties

Duties As the NLM Engineer you work closely with the NLM Senior Leadership team, and you are responsible for projects that are among the largest, most complex, highly visible activities of the institution. The work involves a wide range of engineering, management, and planning to fulfill the goals of the NLM Strategic Plan, which identifies the necessity to create a sustainable institutional, physical, and computational infrastructure; a critical need to improve the aging physical plant and provide robust, reliable facilities and space management to sustain the rapidly evolving NLM mission and workforce. Duties will include: · Leading overall management and planning activities to advance the NLM physical plant, space, and facilities program. · Leading planning, programming and design work for substantial multi-phase new construction, renovation, and improvement projects for a variety of real property facilities. · Conducting site investigations and feasibility evaluations, developing project design and execution plans, directing preparation of fee estimates, and managing project funding, serving as a Contracting Officer Representative, and ensuring that contractors and staff members work effectively to complete projects. · Coordinating with NIH to determine feasibility, topography, and site configuration or condition of structure and essential data prior to initiating design. · Directing the preparation of detailed estimates and the pertinent correspondence, plans, reports, and A/E contract criteria necessary for project completion. · Monitoring project reviews, readjusting money, schedules, and work required to complete assigned projects. · Performing final acceptance inspections and completing all administrative actions required to close out assigned projects. · Utilizing information management, project tracking and computer aided design and drafting (CADD) programs to solve engineering problems and facilitate work. · Working with staff to coordinate solutions to minimize impacts to operations, caused by facilities projects, maintenance, and environmental impacts. · Coordinating efforts to ensure maintenance problems are addressed by NIH facilities teams and ensuring staff are well informed of options to work on maintenance solutions.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship requirement or proof of being a U.S. National must be met by closing date.
• Employment is subject to the successful completion of a background investigation, verification of qualifications, completion of onboarding forms, submission of required documents, and any other job-related requirement before or after appointment.
• Applicants must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
• Males born after December 31, 1959 must be registered with the Selective Service.
• This position is designated as an "emergency essential" position.
• Position requires Education (please submit transcripts).

Qualifications

In order to meet the Basic Qualification Requirements of a General Engineer, GS-0801 position, you must: A. have a degree in professional engineering from a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; OR B. have a degree in professional engineering that includes differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in 5 of the following 7 areas of engineering science or physics: (1) statics, dynamics; (2) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (3) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (4) thermodynamics; (5) electrical fields and circuits; (6) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (7) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics; OR C. be registered as a professional engineer by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico; OR D. be currently registered as an Engineering Intern (EI) or an Engineer in Training (EIT); OR E. have successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 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; OR F. have successfully completed at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described above; OR G. have successfully completed a curriculum that led to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology OR in an appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, AND have at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Additional requirements: You qualify for the General Engineer at the GS-14 level, if you meet the following qualification requirements: A. You must demonstrate in your resume at least one (1) year of qualifying experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal service obtained in either the private or public sector, performing the following types of tasks: providing facilities planning, programming, design and construction support for health, safety and environmental design aspects; formulating comprehensive plans and strategies to address immediate and long-range facilities requirements; collaborating with staff to define needs, objectives and technical requirements involved with construction or renovation of facilities; presenting complex facilities engineering solutions (organizational and funding) to senior management officials; serving on a team of experts in facility occupancy classification; and applying regulations, organizational directives, and construction codes and standards, in order to meet local, state, or national requirements. You will receive credit for all experience material to the position, including experience gained in religious, civic, welfare, service, and organizational activities, regardless of whether you received pay. Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. Preview assessment questionnaire before you apply: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12167950

Education

This position has an education requirement. You are strongly encouraged to submit a copy of your transcripts (or a list of your courses including titles, credit hours completed and grades). Unofficial transcripts will be accepted in the application package. Official transcripts will be required from all selectees prior to receiving an official offer. Click here for information on Foreign Education.

Contacts

• Address National Institutes of Health 6701 Rockledge Dr Bethesda, MD 20892 US
• Name: Sheri Liggett
• Phone: 301-594-2386
• Email: [email protected]