Explore a new career with the BLM - where our people are our most precious resource. This position is located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Information about Salt Lake City and the surrounding area can be found here. We expect to fill one vacancy at this time; however, additional positions may be filled from this announcement if they become available.

Duties

This position serves as the Mining Engineer Utah Program Leader for the Coal program for the Division of Lands and Minerals, Branch of Solid Minerals. Provides guidance, including writing IMs and IBs, oversight of the coal program, coal land use planning, tract delineation, and project National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis. Prepares Geologic and Engineering Reports for leasing and lease modifications. Prepares Fair Market Value Reports using income, market, and/or cost methods for coal leasing and lease modifications. Prepares and presents briefings to Federal agencies, State agencies, and the general public concerning the federal coal management program. Resolves sensitive issues on complex public land issues related to mineral development. Reviews major, unique, or controversial exploration plans, mine plans (R2P2s), engineering reports, and environmental studies to ensure conformance with laws and regulations. Coordinates with the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) and Division of Oil, Gas and Mining on permitting issues and Utah Geologic Survey on resource information. Provides consultation and technical guidance in coal exploration, leasing, development, operation, and Inspection and Enforcement/Production Verification principles necessary to manage the public lands. Monitors and oversees inspections of mining operations on public lands. Responds to Congressional inquiries requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), assist with administrative records for court proceedings, and provides information for response to the State Director or Director’s Office.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Be sure to read the 'How to Apply' and 'Required Documents' Sections.
• You cannot hold an active real estate license: nor can you have an interest or hold stocks in firms with interest in Federal Lands.
• Direct Deposit Required.
• Appointment will be subject to a favorably adjudicated background/suitability investigation/determination.
• Your resume must contain enough information to show that you meet the qualification requirements as defined in the announcement. In addition, your responses to the questions must adequately reflect in your resume.
• May require a one year probationary period.

Qualifications

In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the qualification requirements - please be sure to include this information in your resume. No assumptions will be made about your experience. In addition to the Basic Education requirements, to qualify at the GS-13 level you must meet the following: Specialized Experience: Applicants must possess one (1) full year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 level equivalent in difficulty and complexity to perform the duties of a Mining Engineer. Qualifying specialized experience includes: serving as a senior engineer providing expertise on at least one of the following: coal exploration, development, operations, and/or production verification, safety, inspection, and enforcement actions; providing guidance on coal regulations; applying the Federal Lands Program of the Surface Mining Control Reclamation Act or Mine Health and Safety Administration regulations as appropriate to a coal program; and developing or evaluating mine plans and reserve calculations for leasing. Please note there are no educational substitutions at this grade level. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement. Federal employees in the competitive service are also subject to the Time-In-Grade requirement in accordance with 5 CFR 300.604. If you are a current Federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks at the next lower grade level. Physical Demands: The work is normally sedentary in an office environment requiring high levels of concentration and subjected to pressures associated with meeting deadlines and sudden shifts in workload priorities. Work performed with production oversight may involve regular and recurring District and Field Office visits with concomitant on-site inspections. Field and inspection work my involve walking, lifting items weighing less than 50 pounds, and/or driving 4x4 vehicle over rough terrain during extreme weather conditions. Work Environment: Work environment in the office normally involves the completion of technical work in a short time frame. These short time frames coupled with heavy workloads commonly involve relatively high stress situations, Field work and inspections may involve walking or driving over rough terrain in harsh weather conditions. Field work requires frequent visits to surface and underground mining operations exposing the employee to hazardous mine conditions, complex and dangerous mobile mining machinery, large trucks, blasting operations, drilling equipment, etc. Use of safety equipment such as goggles, steel-toes shoes or boots, and self-rescuers is mandatory on these visits. Incumbent will require working knowledge of MSHA and OSHA regulations and will be required to take self-rescuer and other mine safety training as required. Travel is required throughout the State of Utah, neighboring states, and on occasion to Washington D.C.

Education

This position has a positive education requirement which requires that you have 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) 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. I will provide a copy of my college transcript(s).

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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 Engineering 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 through a State Board's eminence provision as a 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 registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
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 specifies in the basic requirements above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described above.
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.)

If using education to qualify, you must submit copies of all transcripts or a list of college courses that include hours and grades from an accredited U.S. college/university. See Required Documents section for more information.

Contacts

• Address BLM Utah State Office BLM Utah State Office, UT-953 400 West 200 South Suite 500 Salt Lake City, UT 84101 US
• Name: BLM Utah HR Recruitment Team
• Email: [email protected]