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Form of workThis position is in Office of Mission Support (OMS); Office of Real Property, Safety and Security (ORPSS); Safety, Occupational Health and Sustainability Division; Safety and Environmental Program Branch. About the Office of Mission Support | US EPA.
This is an office-centered position*--you must physically report to the duty station stated in this announcement on a regular basis.
*Work-from-home flexibilities may be authorized as described in the Benefits section.
Qualifications:
In addition to the educational requirements, we are looking for at least one year of specialized experience related to this position as described below:
To qualify for the GS-14 level, you need to have at least one year of full-time experience equivalent to the GS-13 level defined as interpreting of guidelines, standards, regulations, policies and engineering criteria and in providing instructions and information to Federal department or agency architects, engineers and contractors; providing documented fire and life safety inspections of federal facilities to detect and control fire and life safety hazards, suppress fire events, and assess adherence to international, national, federal, state and local Fire and Life Safety codes.
Your answers to the online assessment will be used to evaluate your competencies in the following areas:
- Knowledge of, and skill in applying a wide range of engineering theories, concepts, principles, standards, and methods
- Skill in oral communication
- Ability to determine and/or execute actions for a wide range of assignments involving combinations of complex features
- Ability to represent EPA’s Fire Protection interests at internal management meetings and at meetings with other federal agencies
- Skill to conduct Fire Protection and life safety analyses and provide comprehensive reports and correspondence for various building structures
- Ability to formulate, execute, advise on and explain recommendations to modify plans, designs or existing buildings or equipment to better achieve fire and life safety standards
- Knowledge of fire suppression and annunciation systems and applicable code compliance
- Ability to act as principal contributor or coordinate a team project and provided technical oversight and direction
- Ability to coordinate emergency management program review of agency directives, technical standards, and professional qualification criteria related to Fire Protection
- Ability to adapt precedents or existing strategies to meet unusual needs or special demands
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.
If you have part-time work experience, read this: EPA Announcement Policies and Procedures.
Education:You need a degree or combination of education and experience as described below to qualify for this position.
A bachelor’s or higher degree from an accredited or pre-accredited college or university in
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 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.)
Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise.
For information about accreditation requirements, visit EPA Announcement Policies and Procedures.
Employment Type: FULL_TIME
