This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Comp Service Postions to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: Provides project engineering services and project management of Architectural/Engineer (A/E) or in-house designed projects for Niagara Falls Storage Site (NFSS) Integrated Technical Office (ITO) projects.

Duties

Solves, advises on or evaluates complex project management problems which involve difficult or unusual planning, scheduling, negotiation and coordination, as well as less complex project management assignments. Utilizing a wide variety of highly skilled professional knowledge, principals, theories, and methodologies of engineering, construction, quality control, and quality assurance experience. Apply a broad range of technical disciplines, including architecture, engineering, surveying and mapping, as well as design, cost estimating, contract analysis, contract negotiation, contract administration, and project scheduling and tracking. Coordinates the development of plans, specifications, design documentation, cost estimates, and budgetary matters through other segments of the district or Architect/Engineer firms. Establishes requirements for project features based on criteria obtained from other technical personnel. Makes necessary field inspections during construction to insure compatibility with original design intent.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. In addition to the basic education requirement, your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Specialized Experience GS-07: 1) Knowledge of mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences applicable to general engineering and the demonstrated ability to review technical aspects of applications, designs, or proposed plans for compliance with laws, regulations, standards, specifications, or other similar work related to the vacancy to be filled. 2) Providing support to senior engineering in the development, planning, and review of engineering design plans and specifications; and 3) Performing a variety of research to assist in the development of contract plans, specifications, and estimates. Specialized Experience GS-09: 1) Knowledge of mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences applicable to general engineering and the demonstrated ability to review technical aspects of applications, designs, or proposed plans for compliance with laws, regulations, standards, specifications, or other requirements, or other similar work related to the vacancy to be filled; 2) Performing field inspection to ensure construction project was conducted in accordance with established contract specifications and gathering data used to monitor the progress of contractors in achieving contract requirements and project milestone; and 3) Providing support to senior engineering in the development, planning, and review of engineering design plans and specifications. Specialized Experience GS-11: 1) Providing project engineering services coordinating tasks associated with development and quality reviews of technical products; 2) Reviewing technical aspects of applications, designs, or proposed plans for compliance with laws, regulations, standards, specifications, or other requirements, or other similar work related to the vacancy to be filled; and 3) Managing Architect-Engineer (A-E) contracts, including preparing scopes of work, cost estimates, and managing contract performance.

Education

Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

Professional Engineering Positions:

A. Successful completion of a professional engineering 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.)

A transcript must be submitted with your application if qualifying using education. See Required Documents for additional information.



FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/

Contacts

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