Job opening: NATURAL RESOURCE SPECIALIST/ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER/PHYSCIAL SCIENTIST
Salary: $82 764 - 128 956 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Jan 30 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.
Duties
You will serve as a post award project support subject matter expert advising construction managers, engineering technicians, and supported commands on relevant environmental laws, policies, and regulations.
You will review construction projects, plans, and designs for compliance with applicable local, state, and Federal environmental laws and regulations as well as Department of the Navy policy and guidance.
You will represent the Environmental Project Support team at all post-award contract kick-off actions including status update meetings to ensure environmental compliance requirements are accomplished.
You will develop and maintain a post award project tracking mechanism to remain abreast of all ongoing and tenant actions on installation to ensure all relevant environmental requirements are met.
You will work with a multidisciplinary team of planners, engineers, designers, and environmental experts to resolve environmental issues that arise in the course of project implementation from CNIC, NAVFAC and regulators.
You will be responsible for inspecting assigned laydown areas, approved dumpster placements, contract job areas, and work sites to assess compliance with project specific environmental requirements.
Requirements
- Must be a US Citizen.
- Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
- Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
- New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
- Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
- Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
- You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final secret security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
- You will be required to complete ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, within 30 days of appointment.
- You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.
- This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
- You will be required to obtain and maintain a current valid United States driver’s license.
- You may be required to wear personal protective equipment such as helmets, gloves, coveralls, glasses, goggles, respirators and safety shoes continuously for the duration of the work shift.
Qualifications
GS-12: In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Providing guidance on National Environmental Policy Act, National Historic Preservation Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act for construction and community planning projects; 2) Managing NEPA documentation for the successful completion of projects and supported command related operation; 3) Evaluating project actions and proposed changes against environmental compliance requirements; 4) Communicating, tracking, and enforcing environmental mitigation requirements for construction permit compliance; and 5) Working on multidisciplinary teams with engineers, architects, community planners, and environmental compliance personnel to achieve efficient project outcomes. NOTE: This information must be fully supported in your resume.
GS-11: In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Relaying guidance on National Environmental Policy Act, National Historic Preservation Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act for construction and community planning projects; 2) Tracking NEPA documentation for the successful completion of projects and supported command related operation; 3) Assisting in evaluating project actions and proposed changes against environmental compliance requirements; 4) Assisting in communicating and tracking environmental mitigation requirements for construction permit compliance; and 5) Working on multidisciplinary teams with engineers, architects, community planners, and environmental compliance personnel to achieve efficient project outcomes. NOTE: This information must be fully supported in your resume.
Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management websites:
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=GS-PROF.
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0400/general-natural-resources-management-and-biological-sciences-series-0401/
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/general-physical-science-series-1301/
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.
Education
Applicants must meet the following Basic Requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:
PROFESSIONAL BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE 0401: Applicants must possess a degree in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or a related discipline appropriate to this position.
OR
Have a combination of education and experience in one of the above majors that includes at least 24 semester hours in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or a discipline related to this position plus appropriate experience or additional education. The quality of the combination of education and experience demonstrates that I possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the work of the position and is comparable to that normally acquired through the completion of a full four year course of study with a major as described above.
PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 0819: Applicants must have successfully completed a bachelor's degree (or higher) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
OR
Have a combination of 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: (I) Professional registration or licensure: Current registration as an Engineer 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; or (II) 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; or (III) 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 under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above); or (IV) 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 one 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.
PROFESSIONAL PHYSICAL SCIENCE 1301: Applicants must have successfully completed a bachelor's degree or higher in physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics.
OR
Have a combination of education and experience with education equivalent to one of the majors shown above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
*In lieu of specialized experience at the GS-11 grade level, you may also meet minimum qualifications with the below education:
Have successfully completed a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in a related discipline appropriate to this position.
OR
Have successfully completed three full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in a related discipline appropriate to this position.
OR
Have a combination of experience and education as described above that equates to one year of experience. The percentage of the required education plus the percentage of the required experience must equal one hundred percent.
Contacts
- Address NAVAL FAC ENGINEERING CMD WASH
1001 North St SE 208
Washington, DC 20020
US
- Name: NAVFAC Washington Human Resources Office
- Phone: (202) 685-0616
- Email: [email protected]
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