Supervisory Interdisciplinary (Engineer/ Architect)

Summary

About the Position: Incumbents in these positions will serve in a Supervisory capacity overseeing engineering, construction, and design activities. They will also act as technical experts and consultants, providing guidance and specialized knowledge. Applicants are encouraged to indicate their preferred location(s) in the assessment preference section of the announcement.

Duties

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• Planning, assigning, directing, reviewing and coordinating the work of professional employees engaged in A-E Management, Value Engineering (VE), or Project Engineering tasks.
• Planning and laying out work to be performed considering the current workload and available personnel.
• Identifying developmental and training needs of employees, providing or arranging for needed training or development.
• Giving advice, counsel, or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters.
• Interpreting and directing the implementation of regulations, directives and procedures affecting assigned functions.
• Utilizing a wide variety of highly skilled professional knowledge, principals, theories, and methodologies of engineering, construction, quality control, and quality assurance experience.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• One-year supervisory probationary period may be required.
• This position may require you to submit a Financial Disclosure Statement, OGE-450.
• This position may require a Professional Engineering (PE) registration or Registered Architect (RA) registration to be obtained within two years of appointment.

Qualifications

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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 is defined as:1) Providing technical and programmatic advice, recommending alternative solutions, and determining resource requirements for engineering project accomplishment; 2) Providing project engineering and technical lead services coordinating tasks associated with development and quality reviews of technical products; 3) Coordinating and participating in Engineering studies; and 4) Leading and managing engineering projects.

In addition to meeting the experience requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the education requirements listed below.

BASIC REQUIREMENT FOR ENGINEER SERIES:

Degree: 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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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:

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.

Written Test Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional.

BASIC REQUIREMENT FOR ARCHITECT SERIES:

Degree: bachelor's degree (or higher) in architecture, or a related field that included 60 semester hours of course work in architecture or related disciplines of which at least (1) 30 semester hours were in architectural design, and (2) 6 semester hours were in each of the following: structural technology, properties of materials and methods of construction, and environmental control systems. (Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.)

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Combination of education and experience: combination of education and experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the arts and sciences underlying professional architecture, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the architectural principles, methods, and techniques and their applications to the design and construction or improvement of buildings. Must have one year of experience working in an architect's office or in architectural work, which provided a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles and theories of professional architecture, for each year short of graduation from a program of study in architecture. In the absence of college courses, must have five years of such experience. (Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.)

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: ;br>
Additional information

• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• One year probationary period may be required.
• One year supervisory probation may be required.
• Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
• This position may require you to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
• Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
• If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
• This is a CP-18Career Field position.
• Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
• When you perform a Civilian Permanent Change of Station (PCS) with the government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit for more information.
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and an agency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest.
• Recruitment or Relocation incentives may be authorized with a signed service agreement.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. Breakdown by location below.
• (RUS) Nashville, TN/Louisville, KY/Huntington, WV/Chattanooga, TN/Duluth, MN/Grand Rivers, KY/ Sault Ste Marie, MI $105,383-$137,000
  
  (PIT) Pittsburgh $108,957-$141,646
  
  (BU) Buffalo $110,200-$143,261
  
  (CH) Chicago/Great Lakes, IL $117,807-$153,151
• Position may be subject to a Special Salary Rate (SSR) under the applicable pay table. (This covers us just in case a selection is made for a position covered by the SSR)

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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