Job opening: Interdisciplinary General Engineer/Architect
Salary: $114 970 - 149 465 per year
Published at: May 28 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
What General Information Do I Need To Know About This Position?
Salary: $114,970 (Step 01) to $149,465 (Step 10);
NOTE: First time hires to the Federal Government are typically hired at the Step 01.
This is an interdisciplinary position and is being advertised concurrently with the following announcements:
Open to current USGS employees: USGS-DEN-24-12395904-IMP-DA
CONTINUED IN DUTIES SECTION
Duties
As an Interdisciplinary General Engineer/Architect within the Office of Management Services, some of your specific duties will include:
Qualifications
Definitions:
EXPERIENCE: One year of work experience is twelve months working full-time (at least 35-40 hours per week). Part-time experience can be pro-rated (i.e., a year at 20 hours per week is credited as 6 months of experience). If your position consisted of mixed duties, experience credit is given for the percentage of time that you spent on qualifying duties (i.e., if you held a position for 2 years, full-time, consisting of 25% personnel work and 75% budget work, and then applied for a budget position you could calculate your experience as follows: 2 yrs = 24 months. 24 months x 75% [percentage of time spent on budget duties] = 18 months of qualifying experience.)
EDUCATION: One year of full-time academic study is 30 semester hours, 45 quarter hours, or the equivalent in a college or university, or at least 20 hours of classroom instruction per week for approximately 36 weeks in a business or technical school. This education must have been successfully completed and obtained in an accredited business, technical school, college or university for which high school graduation or the equivalent was a prerequisite.
GRADUATE EDUCATION: In the absence of specific graduate program information, a year of graduate education is 18 semester hours or 27 quarter hours of graduate level college course work, or the number of credit hours the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full time study. This education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university.
Basic Requirements for General Engineer, GS-0801: Applicants must meet the requirements outlined in either A or B below to satisfy the basic requirements for General Engineer, all grade levels.
Completed the requirements for a bachelor`s or higher degree in 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.
Possess a 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; (2) Written Test; (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 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.
Basic Requirements for Architect, GS-0808: Applicants must meet the requirements outlined in either A or B below to satisfy the basic requirements Architect, all grade levels.
Possess a degree in architecture, or related field which includes 60 semester hours of course work in architecture or related disciplines and includes as a minimum: (1) 30 semester hours in architectural design: and (2) 6 semester hours in each of the following: structural technology, properties of materials and methods of construction, and environmental control systems.
Possess a combination of education in arts and sciences underlying professional architecture and experience in design and construction or improvement of buildings AND one of the following: (1) degree in architectural engineering provided the completed course work provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities substantially equivalent to an architecture degree; OR (2) One year of experience performing architectural work for each year short of graduation from a program of study in architecture.
For GS-13:
In addition to the basic education requirements as stated above, applicants must have one year of appropriate professional experience that is equivalent to at least the GS-12 level in the Federal service.
Examples of specialized experience may include: 1) serving as a lead Project Manager on technically complex design and construction projects; 2) experience as a lead Project Manager on new construction or renovation projects involving science laboratories, office, warehouse, or other facilities; 3) experience leading interdisciplinary teams with architectural and engineering specialties; 4) experience in contract administration for design and construction projects; 5) experience in primary responsibilities to explain, plan, coordinate, defend, justify, or negotiate difficulties of interpretation of construction contract documents; 6) experience in developing written responses to requests for information relative to Architectural/Engineering and Construction technical and administrative subjects; and 7) communicating project status and progress through verbal and written means.
You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements for the position by the closing date of the announcement.
Education
- Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
- Foreign Education: Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the above requirements. You must provide acceptable documentation that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit: https://www.usgs.gov/about/organization/science-support/human-capital/how-foreign-education-evaluated-federal-jobs .
Contacts
- Address FAC PRJ MGMT AND SUP BRANCH
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
Mail Stop 600
Reston, VA 20192
US
- Name: Danial Anthon
- Phone: 303-236-9197
- Email: danthon@usgs.gov
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