About the Position: This position is located in US Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, Engineering & Construction Division, Design Branch, General Design Section, located in Philadelphia, PA. ****This is a temporary position not to exceed three years. This position may not be converted to permanent.****

Duties

You will serve as a senior Electrical Engineer and the District's technical consultant for design of electrical systems. Systems may include power, lighting, telecommunication, and security systems required for civil works and military construction projects. Systems may include power, lighting, telecommunication, and security systems required for civil works and military construction projects. Projects include reservoir and navigation facilities, utility and power generation distribution systems, sewage treatment facilities, and building construction and renovation. Duties include: Prepares design narratives, electrical design calculations, AutoCAD and Revit drawings, and technical input to specifications for above projects. Develop designs for interior and exterior power, lighting and telecommunication systems which may include underground and overhead distribution for utility and power generation systems, duct banks, transformers and exterior lighting, interior distribution power systems containing transformers, panelboards, receptacles and providing power to other equipment; interior lighting systems such as fluorescent and LED lighting, lighting controls and daylight harvesting techniques; other designs include access control, intrusion detection, CCTV, and CATV systems. Prepares technical and projects specifications. Coordinates the design of electrical systems with the design of related project features accomplished by architects and other engineers. Provides technical assistance and resolutions for electrical engineering problems such as availability of equipment, or site constraints, construction conditions which develop during design or construction. Reviews shop drawings and conducts site investigations.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• A one-year Probationary or Trial period may be required.
• This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 25% of the time.
• This position requires you to obtain and maintain a Valid State Driver’s License.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Interagency Career Transition Assistance PlanPriority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability RetirementPriority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible In order to qualify, you must meet the education and 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. Specialized Experience: Specialized Experience is defined as one year of specialized experience which includes: 1) Preparing designs utilizing computer aided drafting software AutoCAD and/or Revit; 2) Designing large and complex electrical systems for building construction projects to include interior and exterior power, lighting, and telecommunication systems; 3) Performing electrical design calculations and technical review of electrical engineering aspects of design packages for adequacy and compliance with laws, regulations, standards, and specifications; and 4) Conducting site visits to identify and eliminate conflicts with electrical engineering criteria and secure necessary data for studies and designs. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: DesignElectrical EngineeringTechnical CompetenceWritten Communication Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-11).

Education

In addition to meeting the specialized experience above, you must meet the basic education requirement below:

Basic Education Requirement for 0850 series:

A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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), 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) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.

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 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.


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

• Address RD-W2SD04 US ARMY ENGINEER DIST-PHILADELPHIA DO NOT MAIL Philadelphia, PA 19103 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk