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Job opening: Supervisory Environmental Engineer (Deputy Director of OEHE)-DE

Salary: $122 198 - 158 860 per year
Published at: Sep 18 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
Position will plan, develop, direct and manage a comprehensive Environmental Health and Engineering program that is comprised of three divisions: Environmental Health Services, Sanitation Facilities Construction, and Health Facilities Engineering. The position is located at the Navajo Area Indian Health Service (NAIHS) in St. Michaels, Arizona.

Duties

Plan, direct, organize, manage, and evaluate all Navajo Area Indian Health Service (NAIHS), Office of Environmental Health and Engineering (OEHE) programs at the direction of the Navajo Area OEHE Director. Provide support in developing objectives, priorities, standards, and methodologies to conduct and evaluate environmental health, environmental engineering, and facilities engineering and management activities. Deliver strong leadership, provide expert consultation, and fosters ongoing staff development to ensure the functional safety and optimal maintenance of health care facilities. Coordinate the IHS/OEHE responsibilities for responding to disasters and other emergency situations. Responsible for the provision of effective program & financial management including program formulation and personnel management to all the OEHE operating divisions. Review, approve, amend, or reject work projects on behalf of the Navajo Area OEHE Director as requested. Along with the Navajo Area OEHE Director, acts as an advisor to the Navajo Area IHS Director, to the Area Executive Committee, and to the eight-service unit Chief Executive Officers on all matters relating to environmental health and engineering. Serve on interagency task force groups to represent the environmental health and engineering interests of the NAIHS as directed by Navajo Area OEHE Director. Upon request from the Area Director and Navajo Area OEHE Director, participate in the annual negotiations under Public Law 93- 638, the Indian Self Determination and Education Assistance Act, serving as a negotiator. Coordinate convene meetings with service unit CEO's, Navajo Nation officials and committees, Tribal enterprises staff, and other local, state, and federal government organizations.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, your resume must state sufficient experience and/or education, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are applying. 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; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week. BASIC REQUIREMENT(S): 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: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT) , 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. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 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. 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. 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.) Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise. In addition to the Basic Requirements, you must also meet the Minimum Qualifications stated below. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Your resume must demonstrate at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the Federal service obtained in either the private or public sector performing the following type of work and/or tasks: Overall management and direction of a health facilities engineering program, sanitation facilities program; preparing program budgets, providing advice and guidance on program activities to a variety of individuals and preparing complex technical reports; AND Selective Placement Factor: Current registration as a professional engineer by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Copy must be submitted for consideration. You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement.

Education

This position has an education requirement. You are strongly encouraged to submit a copy of your transcripts or a list of your courses including titles, credit hours completed, and grades. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted in the application package. Official transcripts will be required from all selectees prior to receiving an official offer.
Only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education may be credited. Applicants can verify accreditation at the following website: https://www.ed.gov/accreditation.
If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

  • Address Navajo Area Indian Health Service PO Box 9020 Window Rock, AZ 86515 US
  • Name: Angela Segay
  • Phone: (928) 871-1421
  • Email: [email protected]

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