This is a Division Manager position in the Office of Production Engineering at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), with a focus on currency manufacturing process improvements and troubleshooting of production issues.

Duties

As a Supervisory General Engineer, you will: Manage a team of engineers and specialized technical personnel in troubleshooting and analyzing manufacturing (printing) equipment, systems, and processes to improve the efficiency and quality of U.S. Currency. Provide technical leadership and mentorship to personnel in project management and manufacturing process improvements, including problem definition and solution using analytical, qualitative, and systematic problem-solving skills. Collaborate with office colleagues to ensure all projects further the office's strategic vision of improving quality, reliability, and consistency within the currency manufacturing process. Provide oversight, vision, and goal-setting strategies to execute the division's mission of proactively addressing printing process and print inspection issues.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Specialized experience for the GS-14 grade level is defined as one year of experience at the GS-13 grade level, or equivalent, that is directly related to the position, and which has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience for this position includes duties such as: - Developing factory metrics such as throughput, line balancing, machine utilization, and product spoilage; and - Developing and executing test plans to verify equipment performance to specifications; and - Verifying the quality of products meet requirements using inspection sensors or systems; and - Working in an engineering capacity to resolve manufacturing process and equipment issues by applying structured problem-solving techniques (e.g., root-cause-analysis).

Education

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:

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.

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.)

Contacts

• Address OFFICE OF PRODUCTION ENGINEERING Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]