This position is located at Bureau of Engraving and Printing, within the Office of Production Engineering. As a General Engineer (VISION SYSTEMS ENGINEER), you will play a key role in ensuring quality standards are met in production while minimizing spoilage costs. You will also lead efforts to improve manufacturing efficiency by leveraging on-equipment visual inspection systems.

Duties

As a General Engineer (VISION SYSTEMS ENGINEER), the position includes application of engineering principles, significant knowledge of and experience with vision systems and image processing software, strong analytical, problem solving, and statistical analysis skills, and the ability to apply these skills in a manufacturing environment. Specifically you will: - Integrate new inspection systems into production by leading verification and validation activities and providing training and start-up assistance to operations. - Develop inspection methods that ensure quality standards are met while productivity impacts and spoilage costs are minimized. - Create inspection reference and tolerance models utilizing commercial and custom machine-vision software & systems. - Maintain inspection systems by developing methods to align inspection systems across the production process and inspection platforms to sustain alignment over time. - Troubleshoot unique or novel problems with inspection systems and ensure sustainable solutions are put in place. ***The BEP is currently in the process of having a new facility built in Beltsville, MD and expect to move to the new facility within the next 5 years. If selected in the Washington, DC area, you may be sent and/or reassigned to the new Beltsville facility. By applying to this position, you understand this potential requirement.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Specialized experience for the GS-14 is one year of experience at the GS-13 level or equivalent in other public or private sectors, that is directly related to the position as listed in this announcement and which has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience is defined as experience: - Evaluating new manufacturing inspection systems, AND - Implementing and maintaining manufacturing inspection systems, AND - Analyzing, interpreting, and reporting on manufacturing inspection system data.

Education

Education Requirements:

Individual Educational Requirements for Professional Engineering, 0800 series:
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.
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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.)

The education generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. If you are qualifying based on foreign education, you must submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. Refer to the OPM instructions.

Contacts

• Address Office of Production Engineering Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]