This position is located in the Architect of the Capitol, Office of the Chief of Operations, Senate Office Buildings, Facilities Support Division. The selectee serves in a developmental capacity as a Fire Protection Engineer with responsibility for performing professional engineering work to protect life and property from destructive fire. The selectee will perform a variety of more difficult assignments to develop experience.

Duties

Duties include assessment and prediction of fire hazards or risks; mitigation of fire damage by proper design, construction, and arrangement of facilities; design, construction, inspection, testing, and operation of fire detection and fire suppression apparatus, appliances, devices, and systems; and assessment of fire protection requirements.

Requirements

• You must be able to pass a drug test
• Your resume and question responses must demonstrate the job-related KSAs.
• You must meet education requirements for Engineers.
• You must meet the definition of specialized experience.

Qualifications

You must meet the United States Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) qualification requirements (including specialized experience and/or educational requirements) for the advertised position. You must meet all eligibility and qualifications requirements by the closing date of the job announcement. Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on the OPM web site at http://www.opm.gov/qualifications. For Engineers:  http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801/  Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level. For GS-11:  Candidates for the GS-11 grade level must have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as having experience in 3 of the following: 1) Oversees and evaluating complex fire protection delivery systems. 2) Conducts fire safety surveys of government buildings. 3) Consults with construction contractor personnel to resolve difficult and complex unforeseen problems 4) Participates in design and design reviews for fire protection engineering aspects of facilities and construction projects. -3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree  or  Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree For GS-12: Candidates for the GS-12 grade level must have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as having experience in 4 the following 5: 1) Oversees and evaluating complex fire protection delivery systems. 2) Conducts fire safety surveys of government buildings. 3) Consults with construction contractor personnel to resolve difficult and complex unforeseen problems 4) Participates in design and design reviews for fire protection engineering aspects of facilities and construction projects. 5.) Inspects facilities to assess compliance with OSHA policies and/or NFPA standards For GS-13: Candidates for the GS-13 grade level must have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as having experience in all of the following: 1) Oversees and evaluating complex fire protection delivery systems. 2) Conducts fire safety surveys of government buildings. 3) Consults with construction contractor personnel to resolve difficult and complex unforeseen problems 4) Participates in design and design reviews for fire protection engineering aspects of facilities and construction projects. 5) Inspects facilities to assess compliance with OSHA policies and/or NFPA standards ***A copy of your transcript(s) will be required upon selection***

Education

All Grades: In addition to meeting the specialized experience and/or education requirements for this position, applicants must possess the following:

Basic Requirements for Engineers:

1. Bachelor's degree in professional engineering: To be creditable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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: -- statics, dynamics; -- strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); -- fluid mechanics, hydraulics; -- thermodynamics; -- electrical fields and circuits; -- nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and -- any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.

--OR--

2. 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 professional 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: (a) current registration as a professional engineer by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico; (b) evidence of having successfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination or the written test required for professional registration; (c) successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences that are fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum; or (d) successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate scientific field.

Special Instructions for Foreign Education: 

Education completed outside of the United States must be deemed equivalent to that gained in conventional/accredited U.S. education programs to be acceptable for Federal employment.

Qualifying education from colleges and universities in foreign countries must be evaluated in terms of equivalency to that acquired in U.S. colleges and universities. Applicants educated in whole or in part of foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited private organization for an equivalency evaluation of course work and degree.

You must provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluation with a course by course listing if selected.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf

Contacts

• Address Architect of the Capitol 2nd and D Street, S.W. Washington, District of Columbia 20515 United States
• Name: Charmain Thomas
• Phone: 202-226-7000
• Email: [email protected]