You will serve as the NOJMO Environmental Manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) responsible for providing technical and management expertise for Environmental Management (EM). You'll serve as the EM Contracting Officers Representative (COR) for the Prime Contract and serves as the CERCLA project manager for the JPL groundwater cleanup project including technical direction, compliance, regulatory interface, reporting, securing funding, and managing cleanup contractor.

Duties

Provides oversight of all Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/Caltech implemented environmental requirements (air, surface water, hazardous waste, CERCLA, NEPA, natural resources, cultural resources, sustainability, energy, etc.,). Serves as project manager for the local onsite monitoring of offsite drinking water treatment systems with the Army Corps of Engineers and contractor support. Provide functional leadership, policy, planning, and coordination for organizational sustainability, environmental compliance, environmental planning, environmental conservation, and environmental justice issues to enable agency mission success. Serves as the Center Sustainability Officer providing oversight and guidance to the JPL/Caltech sustainability efforts. Represents NOJMO/JPL to the rest of NASA. Provides leadership and guidance to Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) contractors sitewide and at Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDSCC). Develops and implements environmental policy to carry out technical solutions for NASA, other Federal agencies, commercial partners, and contractors. Supervise coordination with necessary stakeholders (e.g., Agency, U.S. Space Force, Department of Interior, Native American tribes, Congress, public, etc.). Advocates the appropriate resources for studies. Coordinates future environmental policy requirements for the Deep Space Network with NASA stakeholders and international partners. Directs emerging contaminants regulatory requirements and response with NASA stakeholders. Partners with facilities personnel to ensure environmental requirements are incorporated into appropriate guides, processes and operations. Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork.

Requirements

• This position is open to U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S
• Position subject to pre-employment background investigation
• You must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement
• If selected, you will be required to complete a financial disclosure statement
• This position may require a one year trial period
• Selectee(s) will be required to work onsite at the duty location within the announcement.

Qualifications

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. To qualify for GS-15, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 level leading multidisciplinary teams to execute environmental projects; providing oversight and coordination of small and large engineering or regulatory compliance teams; and managing and monitoring compliance of contractors teams. Experience with a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) team and projects that fall within Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) is preferred but not required. Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job.

Education

You must have successfully completed a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree.

You must have successfully completed a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included a major in 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
Have a 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), 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 individuals 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 individual 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) examination or any other written test required for professional.
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.
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 you have 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.)

U.S. degrees must have been awarded from colleges or universities that are accredited by recognized accrediting organizations. For a list of schools that meet this criteria, go to http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs. These education credentials must be deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

All degrees must have been received in the year of, or any year subsequent to the original date of accreditation.

Contacts

• Address NASA Headquarters 300 E St SW Washington, DC 20546 US
• Name: NASA Shared Services Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-677-2123
• Email: [email protected]