NIST works with industry and science to advance innovation and improve quality of life. We're looking for a Mechanical Engineer to join our team! This notice is issued under direct-hire authority to recruit new talent to occupations for which NIST has a severe shortage of candidates.

Duties

The position is in NIST's Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) group of the Systems Integration Division which focuses on industrial digitalization for smart, sustainable, and resilient manufacturing. The division develops quantitative tools, methods, and standards-based reference implementations to support manufacturing practices using a product life cycle approach and systems thinking. The Life Cycle Engineering group researches standards needs for manufacturing in a Circular Economy and guidelines for deploying Manufacturing Digital Twins. We are looking for a Mechanical Engineer to join our team! Research topics of research may include: Sustainable manufacturing through better capture of environmental and other performance measures. Development of metrics and methods for evaluating the role of products, materials, processes, and systems in a circular economy and incorporating into existing engineering and manufacturing practices. Contributions to related, novel areas of research in emerging topics such as Circular Economy, Digital Twins, Human-in-the-Loop AI Systems. If selected, you will apply expertise in mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, and data science to support prototyping of design to manufacturing to integration scenarios. Duties may include Conducting research working closely with internal and external stakeholders to identify current and emerging challenges in integrating circularity into existing design practices. Investigating the viability of potential technical standards around engineering design and manufacturing for circular economy and collaborating with internal and external partners in proposing and promoting the development of those standards. Developing models and software tools to facilitate the analysis of life cycle engineering scenarios. Writing and reviewing other's papers and presentation materials as a subject matter expert. Interacting with stakeholders from academia, industry, and/or government in conducting research, preparing reports and demonstrations, and presentations on findings.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
• Suitable for Federal employment
• Bargaining Unit Position: No

Qualifications

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.) Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 level (ZP-II at NIST) in the federal service. Specialized experience is defined as experience in assisting with and applying and reporting on product design research and data analysis methodologies in the area of lifecycle engineering and/or sustainable manufacturing practices. Ability to use a variety of relevant software and/or manufacturing equipment. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done. We will credit all qualifying volunteer experience in your application. The qualification requirements in this vacancy announcement are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook. Applicant Reconsideration

Education

This position has an education requirement. Transcripts must be submitted to validate that the education requirement has been met. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted in the application package. However, an official copy will be required prior to a final offer of employment.

Education completed outside of the U.S. must be evaluated by an accredited organization to ensure that it is comparable to education received in accredited institutions in the U.S. Click here to view a listing of accredited organizations from the Department of Education's website. A copy of the foreign education evaluation (containing the results with a course by course listing) is required with your application.

Contacts

• Address Systems Integration Division 100 Bureau Drive Gaithersburg, MD 20899 US
• Name: Evelyn Carter-Hopkins
• Phone: 000-000-0000
• Email: [email protected]