This position is in the National Nuclear Security Administration, Los Alamos Field Office, within the Assistant Manager for Field Operations, Safety System Oversight Team. The incumbent serves as a Fire Protection Engineer with responsibility for administration and oversight of the fire protection program and fire safety functions associated with facilities and operations at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Duties

Serves as a Senior Fire Protection Engineer and is responsible for providing professional fire protection expertise.- Provides expert technical leadership, support, and authoritative guidance regarding fire protection for facilities and operations within National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Provides authoritative recommendations concerning the interpretation and implementation of codes, standards, and orders. Provides fire protection engineering support and expert advice for fire and safety considerations in the design, construction, and modification of facilities. Reviews Fire Hazard Analyses. Serves as advisor to NNSA management on fire protection, maintains familiarity with current processes, materials, and status of facilities at NNSA installations through frequent site visits, discussions, and reviews of reports to provide timely advice to management. Performs formal appraisals of contractor performance in areas of expertise and prepares reports and briefings on evaluations and findings. Participates in operational readiness reviews of new or modified contractor activities. Reviews and provides comments on proposed new regulations and guidance in areas of expertise; represents NNSA in meetings, workshops, and standards committees on these subjects and may give testimony to regulatory agencies and boards. Serves on Source Selection Boards as required.

Requirements

Qualifications

EN-804-3 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: A qualified candidate's online application and resume must demonstrate one full year of related specialized experience equivalent to the EN-00 pay band or GS- 5-11 level in the Federal service. Qualifying specialized experience for this position is defined as: Applied knowledge of fire prevention practices and equipment/systems to mitigate fire-related hazards. EN-804-4 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: A qualified candidate's online application and resume must demonstrate one full year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the EN-03 pay band or GS-13 level in the Federal service. Qualifying specialized experience for this position is defined as: Experience in reviewing the operability of safety structures, systems and components designed to prevent and mitigate fire-related hazards that may occur in nuclear and/or non-nuclear, high-hazard, and general industrial facilities, including evaluating existing fire protection system and component functionality and reliability. Examples of Specialized Experience: EN-804-3 1. Participating in the inspection, test, and maintenance requirements of fire protection systems in nuclear or hazardous facilities, including flow down of requirements from approved safety basis documents. 2. Participating in personnel training and qualification and equipment readiness to respond to fires, accidents, medical emergencies, hazardous material incidents and other emergencies. EN-804-4 1. Managing or evaluating the inspection, test, and maintenance requirements of fire protection systems in nuclear or hazardous facilities, including flow down of requirements from approved safety basis documents. 2. Evaluating personnel training and qualification and equipment readiness to respond to fires, accidents, medical emergencies, hazardous material incidents and other emergencies. Your application and resume should demonstrate that you possess the following competencies. Do not provide a separate narrative written statement. Rather, you must describe in your application how your past work experience demonstrates that you possess the KSAs identified below. Cite specific examples of employment or experience contained in your resume and describe how this experience has prepared you to successfully perform the duties of this position. DO NOT write "see resume" in your application! Planning and EvaluatingProject ManagementTechnical CompetenceTechnical Credibility "Experience" refers to paid and unpaid experience. Examples of qualifying unpaid experience may include: volunteer work done through National Service programs (such as Peace Corps and AmeriCorps); as well as work for other community-based philanthropic and social organizations. 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 qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

Basic Requirements: 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: 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
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 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.)

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

EDUCATION: Education must be obtained from an accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Applicants who have completed part or all of their education outside of the U.S. must have their foreign education evaluated by an accredited organization to ensure that the foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the U.S. A written evaluation of any foreign education must be provided with your application in response to this vacancy announcement or be received by the closing date of this announcement. Failure to provide this evaluation will result in you being found unqualified for the position. For special instructions pertaining to foreign education, see the Department of Education website, and for a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, visit The National Association of Credential Evaluation Services.

**If you are selected, official transcripts will be required.

**FOREIGN EDUCATION: Applicants who have completed part or all of their education outside of the U.S. must have their foreign education evaluated by an accredited organization to ensure that the foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the U.S. A written evaluation of any foreign education must be provided with your application in response to this vacancy announcement or be received by the closing date of this announcement. Failure to provide this evaluation will result in you being found unqualified for the position. For special instructions pertaining to foreign education, see the Department of Education website, and for a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, visit The National Association of Credential Evaluation Services. Please Note: If your foreign education has already been accepted by an accredited U.S. educational institution as part of a degree program with that institution, you do not need to provide an evaluation of foreign education but must submit a copy of the transcripts listing the degree from the U.S. accredited institution that accepted your foreign education.

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

Contacts

• Address Los Alamos Field Office 24600 20th St SE Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5507 US
• Name: Latrice Ginwright
• Email: [email protected]