General Engineer

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The primary purpose of this position is to serve as a professional engineer and technical expert with engineering responsibility for planning, analyzing, and evaluating efforts used to identify, assess, categorize, and track risk management activities for critical assets, system/subsystem, and related infrastructure.Qualifications: In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, Professional and Scientific Positions, to include the Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) for the GS-0801, Professional Engineering Series.
BASIC REQUIREMENT OR INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT:
EDUCATION: A Bachelor's degree (or higher) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a Bachelor's degree (or higher) 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. (NOTE: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.)
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COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: A combination of 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: (I) 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; or (II) 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, and Puerto Rico; or (III) Specified academic courses: Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above); or (IV) 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 one 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. (NOTE: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.)
In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-12 (or equivalent in other pay systems) which includes experience with applying the concepts, policies, and procedures in professional engineering and integrating them to meet mission requirements; utilizing technical and administrative fields to apply theories and new innovations to problems and make/implement decisions that will affect established programs; developing, implementing, and resolving a wide variety of highly complex technical and management issues related to the development of civil engineering policies and guidelines; and analyzing and resolving conflicts in policy and program objectives and/or problems in very complex transactions involving complex negotiations.
FEDERAL TIME-IN-GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT FOR GENERAL SCHEDULE (GS) POSITIONS: Merit promotion applicants must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year at the GS-12 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-13 level. TIG applies if you are in a current GS position or held a GS position within the previous 52 weeks. NOTE: Applicants applying as VEOA candidates who are current GS civil service employees or are prior GS civil service employees within the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:

1. Knowledge and mastery of professional engineering principles, theories, procedures, and applications and skill in using those principles and applications to meet mission requirements.
2. Professional knowledge of a broad range of program management (Air Force integrated installation planning, asset management, project programming, emergency management, Chemical-Biological-Radiological-Nuclear defense, critical control systems, mechanical, civil, electrical, and environmental engineering), maintenance, sustainment, restoration, and recapitalization programming and programs for the Air Force installation build infrastructure, and knowledge of Air Force Critical Asset Risk Management and Civil Engineering goals and objectives.
3. Extensive knowledge of a broad range of problems solving and risk management methods, practices, and techniques used to determine viable approaches and solutions in communicating new concepts, goals, and objectives that enable the incumbent to serve as the leader of a multi-disciplinary group to address Critical Asset Risk Management into policies, programs, and procedures for critical asset and infrastructure resiliency.
4. Knowledge of change management approaches, tools, development, utilization, and tracking of performance metrics, and phases of the project lifecycle, ability to recognize and analyze the programs and situations, and develop rules and procedures for timely and economical solutions.
5. Skill in application of HQ USAF instructions, policy, and guidance letters associated with the various asset management and civil engineer programs along with a mastery of civil engineering programming rules. Ability to research analyze, interpret DoD, JS, other Service Component, and DAF agency policy/rules, and incorporate into Air Force policy/guidance.

PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week.
VOLUNTEER WORK EXPERIENCE: Refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (i.e., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student and social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge and skills that can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.Education: IF USING EDUCATION TO QUALIFY: If position has a positive degree requirement or education forms the basis for qualifications, you MUST submit transcriptswith the application. Official transcripts are not required at the time of application; however, if position has a positive degree requirement, qualifying based on education alone or in combination with experience, transcripts must be verified prior to appointment. An accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education must accredit education. Click here to check accreditation.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.Employment Type: FULL_TIME