This position is located at the United States Mint, Manufacturing Department, Engineering & New Technology Division, Project Engineering Branch which is responsible for the development and implementation of advanced engineering concepts, programs and projects for the United States Mint. As a PROJECT ENGINEER, you will be responsible for managing capital projects at various sites.

Duties

As a PROJECT ENGINEER, you will: Perform individual project management activities, i.e., acquisition and support; engineering and integration; quality, testing and evaluation; programmatic activities; procurement; equipment/material supply; and logistics and maintenance aspects. Assist in the preparation of conceptual layouts and workflow within industrial facilities and for automated material handling systems. This includes planning or improving the arrangement of machines and equipment to achieve the most efficient and economical operations. Lead capital projects for process improvements, involving equipment or new production processes. Provide expert professional advice to staff and production management on projects and engineering principles. Initiate investigations and studies to develop design criteria and to find solutions to critical problems in design, construction or operations. Direct and work with architects and engineers on designs of new structures, additions, and modifications.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year and indicate number of hours worked per week on your resume. Specialized experience: For the GS-14, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: - Managing engineering projects of $1M value or greater involving production/manufacturing equipment installations and/or manufacturing lines that required the installation of production processes which consist of multiple steps or operations (not merely replacement or installation of single piece of procured equipment). Direct personal experience to include the development of a business case, statements of work, obtaining of funds, managing the installation and commissioning.

Education

Education Requirements:
***To receive credit, you MUST provide documentation of how you meet this education requirement: a transcript (unofficial transcript is accepted at time of application; however, if selected, an official transcript will be required) and/or documentation of professional registration or licensure, written test, etc.

Basic Requirements:
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.)

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 Headquarters - Manufacturing Dept/ENGINEERING AND NEW TECHNOLOGY DIVISION Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]