This position is located at Bureau of Engraving and Printing, within the Quality Engineering Division. As a General Engineer you will provide expert technical advice relating to the manufacturing and processing of U.S Currency in DC and Fort Worth,develop engineering improvement strategies to enhance the overall quality of products produced at BEP facilities, and serve as an expert advisor regarding production process quality issues, problem solving, and continuous improvement efforts.

Duties

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-13. 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, you will: Serve as a consultant and expert advisor to Bureau components' efforts to continually improve their engineering and manufacturing quality performance. Plan, coordinate, and execute the quality program necessary to ensure products consistent with engineering specifications and customer requirements. Formulate and maintain engineering and related quality standards that conform to customer requirements. Develop and/or ensure that product quality standards are established, approved, understood, implemented, and adhered to by all departments. Evaluate process/equipment capabilities to ensure product conformance to established requirements; evaluate test results in accordance with preliminary standards; obtain test samples; prepare draft standards; obtain higher authority approval of draft standards; train employees in use of quality standards; and evaluate usefulness of quality standards. Ensure deliverable products meet customer requirements. Investigate emerging and/or current quality problems associated with final product quality verification. Performs root-cause analysis and other problem-solving activities to identify effective corrective actions and engineering process improvements. Investigate and initiate the response to customer complaints.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. 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: - Ensuring deliverable products are consistent with engineering specifications and customer requirements; AND - Collaborating with other professionals on efforts to improve engineering and manufacturing quality performance; AND - Investigating, analyzing, and correcting adverse quality trends or conditions. Specialized experience for the GS-12 is one year of experience at the GS-11 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: - Ensuring deliverable products are consistent with engineering specifications and customer requirements; AND - Collaborating with other professionals on efforts to improve engineering and manufacturing quality performance.

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