Serves as the General Engineer in a Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) location. The primary purpose of this position is to serve as an Engineering Specialist in the Logistics and Engineering Group, Facilities Sustainment Division, providing maintenance and repair solutions for facility deficiencies.

Duties

Serves as DeCA consultant to interpret and supply advise on construction, maintenance or repair policies and regulations. Provides technical expertise and consulting services to DeCA staff; commissary store managers and base/installation engineering personnel on all engineering matters related to the maintenance, repair and construction of commissary facilities. Provides support to Agency planning, project programming, design and construction activities for DoD commissaries. Prepares or monitors the preparation of draft and final, project scope, preliminary cost estimates, and statements of work for Maintenance Contracts. Serves as Chief lnspector to monitor contractor performance on facility maintenance or repair contracts. Read the entire announcement before starting the application process.

Requirements

• Be a U.S. citizen or national.
• Meet minimum age requirement. See Additional Information.
• Males born after 12-31-1959 must be registered with or exempt from Selective Service.
• May be subject to successful verification of identity and employment eligibility through E-Verify. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, at https://www.e-verify.gov/.
• May be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as required. New federal employees will be fingerprinted.
• Be able to obtain and maintain clearance eligibility based on the appropriate background investigation.
• May be subject to a probationary/trial period.
• Direct deposit of pay is required.
• Physical Requirements: Will be required to crawl over, stoop and bend, under and through buildings while inspecting facility systems.
• Temporary Duty (TDY) Travel: Occasionally
• Duties require travel to various locations in the United States or overseas by military and/or air, sea or land transportation.
• Required to file OGE SF-450, Confidential Statement of affiliations and financial interest.
• This position requires access to DeCA's Business Systems and is designated as IT level II. This position requires access to classified information up to Secret and therefore requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.

Qualifications

See the Group Coverage Qualification Standards for Professional and Scientific Positions: To qualify for this position you must possess One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level. To be creditable, specialized experience must be at the GS-12 or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector. You will receive credit for all relevant qualifying experience (paid and unpaid), including volunteer work done through National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Examples of Specialized Experience: Providing project management and professional engineering services to include project planning, programming, and design. Troubleshooting of various types of complex facilities maintenance and repair issues. Acting as project manager on major or minor construction. Managing, supervising or performing planning, designing, constructing and/or maintaining structures and facilities. Recommending facility changes, which will enhance functional or operational facets, such as ensuring operational continuity for retail facilities during construction or facilities improvement projects. AND The Individual Occupation Requirements, https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedulePage 3 of 57/20/2023 14:00 EDT qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801/: 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.) Additional Requirements that must be met by the closing date: Time-in-grade applies to the promotion of current and former federal employees who hold or have held a permanent GS position in either the competitive or excepted service in the previous 52 weeks, including current employees applying under VEOA. Your application package must contain proof you meet this requirement. See Required Documents for more information. For GS-13: You must have 52 weeks of Federal service at or equivalent to GS-12. Time after competitive appointment. Current federal civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since being selected for a nontemporary appointment from a competitive examination register of eligibles (an announcement opened to the public) or under a direct hire authority. As part of the online application process, you will respond to a series of questions designed to evaluate your level of experience in these competencies: CommunicationsFacilities EngineeringGeneral EngineeringMinimum Qualifications GS-13 Overtime: Occasional Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt Bargaining Unit Status: Not Covered Those retired under CSRS or FERS considered: No. DoD criteria not met. Work environment: Work is performed in an office environment and on construction sites with recurring exposure to moderate discomforts, such as high level of noise, adverse weather and risk due to on going maintenance and construction activities, inspections and climbing at high levels, etc. Telework eligible: Yes Remote work eligible: No

Education

ARE YOU USING YOUR EDUCATION TO QUALIFY? You MUST provide transcripts and/or other documentation to support your educational claims.

Transcripts. REQUIRED when using education to meet qualifications or when education is required.

Foreign education may be qualifying if a private organization specializing in interpreting foreign education programs has deemed the foreign education equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program or a U.S. accredited college or university has given full credit for the foreign courses.

Unofficial transcripts from U.S. Department of Education accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions listing your name, the name of the school, the date and degree awarded, and the list of classes and credits earned are acceptable for the application process. If selected, official transcripts are required before a firm job offer is made. A photocopy of your degree/diploma is not acceptable.

When relying on foreign education, submit transcripts and a copy of the equivalency evaluation results letter with a course-by-course listing. Documents must be in English or include an English translation. The hiring employer for this position does not evaluate degrees from foreign colleges or universities.

Contacts

• Address DECA HQ 1300 Eisenhower Street Fort Gregg-Adams, VA 23801 US
• Name: DeCA HQ Servicing team
• Phone: 614-692-2331
• Email: [email protected]