The position is located in the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Infrastructure Operations (IO), Facility Management and Services (FMS). Facility Management and Services plays an integral role in the daily operation and maintenance of the GAO building, including mail operations. FMS provides centralized administrative support such as copying services and supplies, oversees lease agreements and building services at GAO field locations, and manages the Health and Safety program for GAO.

Duties

As a General Engineer, PT-0801-3 your typical work assignments may include the following: Provides authoritative advisory service, guidance, direction and coordination on matters associated with engineering project scope, requirements, and funding. Provides technical guidance for the design, operation or maintenance of GAO power generation or electric distribution components (e.g., switchboards, circuit breakers, protection deuces, electrical safety, power generation equipment). Develops methods, procedures, and specifications to be used for highly complex electrical systems. Reviews plans and designs prepared by professional engineers in architectural and engineering firm to determine their conformance with agency criteria and contract scope. Serves as a subject matter expert and liaison providing specialized electrical engineering guidance on complex engineering and construction matters. Identifies and advises on both preventative and corrective actions. Conducts quality checks on reports, request for proposals, calculations, drawings, and specifications for both architectural and engineering submissions as well as in-house internal reviews, to ensure accuracy. Develops comprehensive reports for field studies and building surveys as well as write position papers and deliver briefings on highly technical subjects for executive decision makers to make determinations. Utilizes professional electrical engineering knowledge to improve the performance, efficiency, and reliability of GAO's electrical and utility systems and equipment and to improve the maintenance, repair, upgrade, and operational processes for these systems and equipment. Monitors the status of construction projects for quality and timeliness of construction on contracts that involve technically complex electrical system aspects. Reviews electrical portions of construction and equipment installation to assess effectiveness of contractor field construction management.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must have one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the NEXT LOWER BAND, PE-2A, CS-2, or GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as experience: Reviewing and preparing electrical systems design drawings, calculations, and specifications to accompany design models generated on electrical engineering design software (e.g., AutoCAD). Recommending methods for the improvement of performance, efficiency, and reliability of electrical, utility systems and equipment. Investigating or evaluating critical electrical issues in existing facilities involving reliability, performance, measurable efficiency, or the potential for modernization. Developing innovative ideas, recommendations, and options for managing and resolving critical issues with power generation or electric distribution components such as switchgears, network protectors, and transformers. 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

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.
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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.

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. Most foreign education is not accredited by an accrediting body that is recognized by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of 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: Recognition of Foreign Qualifications | International Affairs Office (ed.gov)

Contacts

• Address Government Accountability Office Human Capital Office 441 G Street NW Washington, DC 20548 US
• Name: LaDonna Daniels
• Email: [email protected]