You will serve as a Supervisory Interdisciplinary Engineer/Architect in the Capital Improvements Division of NAVFAC NORTHWEST. This interdisciplinary position will be filled as a Supervisory General Engineer (0801) or Supervisory Architect (0808).

Duties

You will develop cost estimates and funding options to meet project or program objectives. You will develop proposals and work requests that ensure operational and performance specifications will meet program requirements within budgets and schedules. You will develop budgetary requirements for current and future programs to ensure funds are utilized correctly and program goals are being met. You will develop cost estimates to support organizational goals. You will develop objectives and set priorities for personnel to meet strategic direction and agency goals. You will give advice, counsel, or instruction to supervisors and employees on technical and administrative matters. You will assess employee work performance to determine if they are meeting established performance objectives. You will identify training needs of subordinates, initiates on-the-job training, recommends formal training necessary. . You will provide mentoring, and develop an Individual Development Plan for each subordinate employee in accordance with the PDC Community Management Plan You will actively supervise a staff comprised of civilians providing both technical and administrative supervision. You will serve as a consultant on all matters pertaining to cost, risk and schedule topics. You will lead in the planning, development, and review of NAVFAC NW Cost, Risk and Schedule programs, standards, and directives. You will be responsible for cost engineering in support of the design and construction of shore installation facilities projects. You will coordinate and direct the work of cost engineers in the accomplishment of project cost estimates for military facilities. You will actively maintain liaison with contractors, suppliers and manufacturers to obtain cost, capability and other data. You will use Cost Schedule Risk Analysis (CSRA) Methodology to provide a range of costs and associated probabilities on projects. You will serve as a supervisory general engineer or architect in the field of Cost Engineering. You will serve as Regional Technical Specialist, subject matter expert, and technical advisor for all architectural and engineering aspects of the Cost Program throughout the regional Command. You will serve as the Cost Engineering Technical Discipline Coordinator providing technical expertise, community management, and regional interface for cost engineering requirements of a diverse range of projects within the program. You will supervise a technical staff comprised of civilians to include GS12 and GS13 Engineers or Estimators.

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
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• 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.
• This is a bargaining unit position.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain a current valid United States driver’s license.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• 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.
• Supervisors in the executive branch have a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. You will be required to review the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct at 5 CFR 2635.101.

Qualifications

This position has an SPF which is current registration as a Professional Engineer (PE) or Architect (RA) in any state, District of Columbia, Guam or Puerto Rico. Do you possess a current PE or RA registration? Note - if you meet this requirement, you MUST provide a copy of your current registration with your application. In most cases, a wall certificate is not sufficient to show your registration is current/active 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-12 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) Assisting technical staffs by initiating and promulgating technical programs and procedures to provide feedback on issues related to cost engineering; 2) Mentoring new employees in specific tasks, job techniques and processes to develop and maintain implementation plans addressing goals, objectives, frequency, and content; 3) Providing expert technical and professional cost engineering assistance to top management, regional officials and other engineers within the agency, and cost engineering firms to ensure projects are completed within the established command processes, procedures, and criteria; 4) Serving as a representative for the Facilities Engineering Capital Improvements Business Line to customer activities, command headquarters. Public Works and Commanding Officers, contractors, local state, and federal agencies along with other organizational components in providing briefings point papers or other information; and 5) Mastery knowledge and skill in applying the theories, concepts, principles and practices of the science of cost engineering including intensive and diversified knowledge of cost engineering and construction for a variety of complex military and capital improvements projects ($10M or greater) to identify, coordinate, and integrate various engineering, architecture and other related disciplines necessary to deliver expert advisory services and to accomplish cost-effective, high-quality design and construction activities. 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 https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801/ 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 for the Professional Engineering Series (0801) must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.

OR

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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.orgOREvidence 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 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.ORSuccessful completion of 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 under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above)

OR

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 one 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.

Applicants for the Professional Architecture Series (0808) must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher degree in architecture.

OR

Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher degree in a field related to architecture that included 60 semester hours of course work in architecture or related disciplines of which at least (1) 30 semester hours were in architectural design, and (2) 6 semester hours were in each of the following: structural technology, properties of materials and methods of construction, and environmental control systems.

OR

Have a combination of college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the arts and sciences underlying professional architecture, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the architectural principles, methods, and techniques and their applications to the design and construction or improvement of buildings. The curriculum for a degree is in either architecture or architectural engineering and covers function, esthetics, site, structure, economics, mechanical-electrical, and other engineering problems related to the design and construction of buildings primarily (but not exclusively) intended to house human activities OR you lack a degree in architecture, but have 1 year of experience in an architect's office or in architectural work for each year short of graduation from a program of study in architecture that demonstrates that you have acquired a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles and theories of professional architecture. (Note - In the absence of college courses, 5 years of such experience is required).

Contacts

• Address NAVFAC NORTHWEST 1101 Tautog Circle Silverdale, WA 98314 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]