The Bureau of Safety & Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) works to promote safety, protect the environment, and conserve resources offshore through vigorous regulatory oversight and enforcement. For information about our bureau go to: http://www.bsee.gov/

Duties

This position is located within the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Regional Directorate (GOMR), Deputy Regional Director for Production, Regional Field Operations (RFO) in Jefferson, LA. At the full performance level (GS-14) the major duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following: 1. Serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) relating to all engineering processes and equipment reviews, providing expert advice for activities related to the accuracy of a variety of Oil and Gas, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), Removal, Utilization, and Sequestration, Renewable Energy reviews and approvals. 2. Identifies necessary changes in processes, procedures, and practices to achieve optimal execution of objectives; incumbent must consider Bureau resources as well as recourse from outside parties to include private industry. 3. Verifies compliance with approved project design bases, Facility Design Report (FDR), and Fabrications and Installation Report (FIR). 4. Reviews Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) revisions to portions of the current renewable energy regulations as they pertain to impacted area/projects within the scope of the Renewable Energy Program; suggests changes when needed in order to better support BSEE's regulatory philosophy and preferred oversight priorities. 5. Serves as the principal assistant to the Regional Supervisor (RS) for RFO for conduct of detailed review of Renewable Energy, oil and gas, and CCS related projects. 6. Prepares reports and recommended actions on unique or extra sensitive problems, for which there is no established policy or precedent by researching and analyzing available technical journals and industry accepted codes and standards. 7. Formulates recommended prevention and research and development needs. 8. Provides advice and consultation to the GOMR Management regarding any area under the purview of the Regional renewable, CCS, and oil and gas programs. BSEE has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval. This position is included in a bargaining unit. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), Local 3457, is the exclusive representative of all employees in this bargaining unit. Salary Information GS-14: $134,876-$175,335 (special salary rate) per annum. First time hires to the Federal government normally start at the lower salary range of the grade level. This vacancy may be used to fill additional positions as vacancies become available.

Requirements

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification Requirements: To qualify for this position, you must meet the (1) Basic Educational Requirements AND (2) Specialized Experience for the series/grade to which you are applying. (1) Basic Educational Requirements: Please Note: This position requires specific educational coursework to qualify. You MUST provide transcripts in order to verify that the educational requirements have been met. To be qualified for this position, you must meet either A or B below for the series to which you are applying. 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: 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 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) 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 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.) - AND - (2) Specialized Experience To qualify for the GS-14, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service, or comparable experience not gained through Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: Using general engineering, safety, and environmental principles and practices while serving as a project manager and/or team lead on all aspects of assigned facilities engineering; specifically, the design, fabrication, installation practices to evaluate proposed installations, modifications, repairs, assessments, and mitigation actions based on plans, reports or applications; Identifying engineering risks and recommending solutions to minimize risks; Working with a Certified Verification Agent (CVA) related to project verification, reporting, and communication; AND Working with various computer programs and database management techniques. Must meet ALL. _____________________________ Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualification Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions and is available at OPM's website: https://www.opm.gov/qualifications/standards/indexes/num-ndx.asp All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Merit Promotion candidates must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of the vacancy announcement.

Education

Education: If this position requires specific educational course work to qualify, or you are qualifying based in whole or part on education, you are required to provide transcripts as proof of meeting the requirements.

Foreign Education: Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the specific educational requirements as stated above. You must provide acceptable documentation that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-policies/#url=e4

Contacts

• Address Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement 45600 Woodland Road Sterling, VA 20166 US
• Name: Rosa Johnson
• Phone: 504-736-2440
• Email: [email protected]