This position is located at Bureau of Engraving and Printing, within the Office of Production Engineering. As a General Engineer (Manufacturing Process Engineer), you will have a background in process, mechanical, electrical, or software/industrial controls. You will also be required to have hands-on engineering background, engineering design/development experience, and a desire to solve real problems in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Duties

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-14. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position. As a General Engineer (Manufacturing Process Engineer), you will: Be assigned to "own" and resolve equipment and/or manufacturing process issues and generate a corrective action plan. You will be first and foremost a hands-on problem solver using strong systematic problem-solving skills. These issues may cause production to stop, reduce product quality or increase spoilage for example. They must be resolved efficiently, and you will be held accountable for results. Be a technical leader of a multi-disciplined, multi person project team to resolve production problems. This team may include resources from various departments such as production, quality, and product development. You may request support from internal departments and outside consultants when required. Verify new currency designs developed by the BEP are producible. If they are not, changes are recommended to make the product producible. Techniques such as design for manufacturability will be used. Develop factory metrics such as throughput, line balancing, machine utilization, and product spoilage. You may be asked to resolve problems adversely affecting these metrics.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement Specialized experience for the GS-14 is one year of experience at the GS-13 level or equivalent in other public or private sectors, that is directly related to the position as listed in this announcement and which has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience is defined as: - Independently managing projects or programs in an industrial setting using multiple manufacturing processes. AND - Collaborating with other professionals on efforts to understand the manufacturing process and how it affects product quality; AND - Identifying problems, developing solutions, or implementing process improvements within a manufacturing environment. Specialized experience for the GS-13 is one year of experience at the GS-12 level or equivalent in other public or private sectors, that is directly related to the position as listed in this announcement and which has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience is defined as experience: - Assisting with or managing projects/programs in an industrial setting using manufacturing processes. AND - Collaborating with other professionals on efforts to understand the manufacturing process and how it affects product quality; AND - Identifying problems, developing solutions, or implementing process improvements within a manufacturing environment;

Education

Education Requirements: The education generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. If you are qualifying based on foreign education, you must submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. Refer to the OPM instructions.

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.)

Contacts

• Address Office of Production Engineering Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]