This position is located at Department of Housing and Urban Development, Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.

Duties

As anEngineer (General), you will: Provides overall technical management and coordination of site-wide design and construction activities for line item and cost projects. Performs project management responsibilities required by regulation for proposed and ongoing line item and cost projects. Plans work to be accomplished, interprets policies and procedures and establishes priorities. Sets or implements standards to meet those goals and assures that contractor and government staffs work effectively to complete projects. Sets priorities, quickly zeros in on critical priorities and eliminates roadblocks. Manages and measures work, setting clear objectives and measures. Provides program management, including developing and executing budget requests, scheduling, prioritizing, and monitoring of contractor performance in these areas for assigned projects. Reviews and approves project plans and ensures proper execution. Validates project budget requirements and budget documentation. Oversees monitoring of the overall status of assigned projects. Ensures that corrective actions are taken when variances are detected. Reviews project costs to ensure proper use of funds. Controls the Total Estimated Cost baselines for projects. Ensures that the project baselines are maintained. Manages planning, research, and development aspects of assigned projects. Evaluates new technologies for potential application in assigned projects. Ensures that adequate consideration is given to standards and regulatory requirements applicable to safe and environmentally sound nuclear and or non-nuclear facilities in the course of planning, developing and managing assigned projects. Oversees and directs the design and construction of assigned projects to ensure that projects are fashioned to design bases and constructed in accordance with approved designs as well as with HUD and commercial standards applicable to nuclear and non-nuclear facility construction. Coordinates Safety Analysis Reports (SAR¿s) and the preparation of appropriate NEPA documentation. Reviews and evaluates design and construction progress in accordance with established milestone costs and technical requirements. Serves as an expert on assigned design and construction projects. Applies comprehensive knowledge of engineering concepts and practices applicable to nuclear and or non-nuclear facilities. Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions. Advises senior management, through the Division Office Director, on all aspects of projects assigned. Ensures appropriate coordination with other DOE Directors and program officials on matters of mutual concern. Maintains contact with field counterparts to ensure that project management requirements and actions are consistent with HUD policy. Prepares and presents project reports and briefings for management and Headquarters staff on the status of projects, problems, recommendations and related matters.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Specialized Experience: For the GS-13, you must have one year (52 full weeks) of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized Experience for this position includes: - Independently applying general engineering concepts, principles, and methods; AND - Reviewing physical condition reports. 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.

Education

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.

1. Basic Requirements:
A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelors 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 bachelors 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.

Contacts

• Address Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]