Job opening: Environmental Engineer
Salary: $68 168 - 152 671 per year
Published at: Jan 26 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
As an Environment Engineer Provides the environmental compliance design element review for Engineering Service construction and maintenance projects. Environmental issues are identified and mitigated.
Duties
At the G band: Applies basic knowledge of environmental engineering principles and practices to accomplish assignments. Reviews projects for overall environmental compliance. Environmental issues are identified and mitigated. Duties include National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review, resource agency coordination, permit acquisition, reviewing of plans and specifications for new installations and systems or modification to existing facilities to ensure compliance with established environmental laws and regulations.
Requirements
- US Citizenship is required.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- This position has a positive education requirement. Transcript(s) required.
- Must submit an SF-50 (See Required Documents for requirements)
- Succesful completion of a security investigation may be required.
Qualifications
Basic Requirements: Applicants must have a bachelor's degree in engineering or combination of education and experience.A. Degree: Successful completion of a full four-year professional engineering curriculum leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in engineering in an accredited college or university. To be acceptable the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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); (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics;ORB. 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 professional 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 a professional engineer by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico;Written Test: Evidence of having successfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for professional registration, which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners 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 in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph A;Related curriculum: - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance.For more information on the alternate methods, please refer to the OPM Qualification Standards for Engineering at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf or you may contact the Employment Services Section (AHF-W300 ), Human Resources Division (424) 405-7325.Specialized Experience: In addition to the basic requirements, all candidates must demonstrate one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade in the Federal service. Specialized experience is that which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position and that is typically in or related to work of the position to be filled.To qualify for this position at the FV-G (FG/GS 5/7/9) level, you must meet the Basic Requirements as stated above.To qualify for this position at the FV-H level, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to FV-G or FG/GS-5/7/9 in the Federal Service. Specialized experience includes experience conducting site surveys, environmental cleanup/demolition project scope developmental, cost estimating, contract award, contractor oversight, project close out and regulatory coordination. Knowledge of and experience interpreting federal, state and local regulations. Experience reviewing and interpreting plans and specifications. Experience delivering technical information briefings or training and ability to create and/or interpret technical reports.To qualify for this position at the FV-I level, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-H or FG/GS-11/12 in the Federal Service. Specialized experience includes experience with conducting site surveys, project scope development, cost estimating, contract award, contractor oversight, project close out and regulatory coordination. Field experience in site investigations, remedial investigations and remedial actions. Expertise with ADEC’s cleanup rules, closure policy and guidance documents. Demolition project management experience to include hazard characterization, environmental sampling, asbestos and lead abatement, waste water system and drinking water well decommissioning, and AST/UST removals.We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED:IMPORTANT: Applicants may be rated on the extent and quality of experience, education, and training relevant to the duties of the position(s). All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantiated. Ensure that your application package/resume supports your responses.
Education
This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcement to verify qualifications. If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment. You may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS or fax it to fax number provided in the announcement (please include announcement number on each page).
Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration.Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Accreditation may be verified at the following website:
www.ed.gov/accreditation.
Foreign education must be evaluated by a private professional organization specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials or an accredited U.S. educational institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired at an American college or university. A copy of the evaluation results must be included, otherwise your foreign education will not be considered.
This position is also being advertised under announcement number: ANM-ATO-24-3390952-88335. Please review both announcements to determine if you are eligible to apply.
NATCA Bargaining Unit Statement: Article 42, Section 5 says: “If the Agency decides to interview any qualified employee on the selection list, then all on the list who are qualified must be interviewed. If the selection list is shortened to a best qualified list through a comparative process, then the best qualified list shall be considered to be the selection list. If it is determined that interviews are required and telephone interviews are not utilized, travel expenses incidental to these interviews will be paid in accordance with the Agency’s travel regulations and this Agreement".
Contacts
- Address Federal Aviation Administration
ANM Regional HR Services Branch
2200 S. 216th St.
AHF-N210
Des Moines, WA 98198
US
- Name: Patricia Harris
- Phone: 1 (206) 231-4234
- Email: [email protected]
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