Explore a new career with the BLM - where our people are our most precious resource. This position is located in the Bureau of Land Management, California State Office. The duty location is negotiable within the following locations: Sacramento, Marina, Redding, or Needles, California. We expect to fill one vacancy at this time; however, additional positions may be filled from this announcement if they become available.

Duties

Serves as a technical expert on projects and programs involving LWCF, drinking water, wastewater, facility management, and realty concerning water quality compliance, environmental planning, and remediation of contaminated sites on public lands. Provides technical guidance to the State, District, and Field Offices regarding planning, remediation, design, operation and maintenance, training and certification, and hazardous waste management efforts. Conducts analyses, and prepares guidance concerning the environmental impacts of proposals, water quality compliance, and/or management of cleanup situations on public lands. Support project development, restoration work, and water quality compliance based on NEPA, CERCLA, federal and local water quality requirements, policy, standards, and best practices. Provides assistance and oversight in preparing proposals for contacts. Prepares and presents oral and written reports and formal briefings for personnel at all levels of the organization. Research, interpret, and follow relevant federal environmental laws and regulations, as well as BLM Manuals and policy directions. Collaborates with other BLM offices and outside agencies when developing implementation strategies, including program and legislative proposals to advance program objectives and goals. Maintains liaison and coordinates tasks as needed with other BLM and DOI units, personnel from western state reclamation and environmental agencies, state and local governments, and public interest groups. May require sensitive negotiation and coordination with staff and leaders of other federal agencies, state and/or local governments, and national interest groups.

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 or two year trial period depending on appointment type.
• This is a Bargaining Unit position.
• This position requires possession of a professional engineering license.

Qualifications

This position has an individual occupational requirement (IOR) that must be met to be considered. Please read the Education section to ensure you meet these requirements. 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. To qualify, in addition to the IOR, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11. Examples of specialized experience may include: Experience with managing the following program areas: program leadership to include program development, guidance and leadership for the design, construction, maintenance and engineering services activities for environmental and/or water quality remediation or construction and providing technical leadership and innovation with staff assistance, in the management and development of physical facilities to enhance the use and management of lands and resources. Professional knowledge of environmental engineering issues, concepts, principles, and objectives, including federal environmental regulations such as NEPA, CERCLA, and RCRA, water quality standards, and land remediation strategies. Professional knowledge of site assessment and cleanup management technologies, water and wastewater treatment, as well as project and cost management techniques within federal contracting procedures. A professional engineering license is required. 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 primarily sedentary in nature. Some travel may be required and involve strenuous hiking and climbing over rugged terrain. Work Environment: Most of the work is performed in an office setting. Occasional field travel accross the western US to isolated areas may be required. Exposure to extreme weather may be expected during field work.

Education

This position has an individual occupational requirement (IOR). Applicants must meet one of the below requirements:

1. A degree in 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.
2. 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)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.
• 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.
• 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, 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.)

You must submit copies of all transcripts that include hours and grades from an accredited U.S. college/university. See Required Documents section for more information.

Contacts

• Address BLM California State Office BLM California State Office, CA-945 2800 Cottage Way Suite W-1623 Sacramento, CA 95825 US
• Name: Jessica Baker
• Phone: 209-305-2069
• Email: [email protected]