Job opening: Engineering Technician
Salary: $49 025 - 63 733 per year
Published at: Oct 29 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
Please limit your resume to 5 pages. If more than 5 pages are submitted, only the first 5 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications.
This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.
About the Position: This position is within the Directorate of Public Works Operations & Maintenance Division.
Duties
Perform on-site pre-inspections of construction projects, noting problems and deficiencies and furnishing higher-level personnel with findings and recommendations.
Recommend acceptance or rejection of contractor’s work.
Interview facility end users and review previous blueprints, specifications, drawings, and plans to determine and identify plan requirements.
Confer with user personnel to validate work specifications.
Obtain information from precedent projects and from electricians, plumbers, heating and air conditioning mechanics to determine requirements for facility projects.
Observe all construction phases to ensure compliance with contract schedules.
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- This position requires the incumbent to obtain and maintain a Tier 1 security clearance.
- A pre-placement medical examination is required.
- This position requires a valid, State-issued motor vehicle driver's license.
- The position requires business travel up to 5% of the time.
- This position may be required to work overtime.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: US Citizens
In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or 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: One year of specialized experience in reviewing contractor requirements to identify and correct deficiencies in construction projects. Experience in reviewing submitted cost from contractors to determine if requested payments are correct per the required contract. Experience overseeing projects plans, specification, and cost estimates for construction projects. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-06).
OR
Education: 1 full year of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Engineering.
OR
Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the first year (total graduate semester hours minus 18) by 18. Add the two percentages.
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.
Education
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 FS-W6CBAA US ARMY IMCOM-USAG FT EISENHOWER
DO NOT MAIL
Fort Eisenhower, GA 30905
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
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