Job Summary

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: You will serve as a Mechanical Engineering Specialist of the Resident Engineer performing field and office mechanical engineering duties associated with the construction of large civil works projects, and locks and dams.

Job Description

Who May Apply: US Citizens 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. Basic Education Requirement: A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) 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; 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: 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. 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) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. 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 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. To qualify at the GS-11 grade level, you must have: A. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes performing journeyman developmental level work with assignments designed to provide the competencies, skills, and experience required to perform the more complex work at the full performance grade level and demonstrates a full comprehension of assigned work applying mechanical engineering concepts, principles, and practices within engineering duties of as a specialist in mechanical systems and equipment, monitoring aspects of a number of contractor's quality control and inspection programs which include responsibility for conducting tests, observing tests, recognizing and detecting design problems, etc. Mechanical systems and equipment include heating and ventilating, air conditioning, plumbing, steam, refrigeration, pneumatic and electrical control system, fuel distribution system, boilers, waste control and sewage treatment, etc. Facilities constructed are Locks and Dams, utilities, office buildings, warehouses, powerhouse cranes, generator rewinds, etc. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09); OR B. Education: 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; OR C. Combination of Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed graduate level education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for this position. Determine your total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determine your education as a percentage of the education required for the grade the grade level; then add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal 100 percent to qualify for this position. (To compute the percentage, divide you total months of qualifying experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of graduate education by 18. Add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal at least 100 percent to qualify). To qualify at the GS-12 grade level, you must have: A. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes applying mechanical engineering concepts, principles, and practices within engineering duties of as a specialist in mechanical systems and equipment, monitoring aspects of a number of contractor's quality control and inspection programs which include responsibility for conducting tests, observing tests, recognizing and detecting design problems, etc. Mechanical systems and equipment include heating and ventilating, air conditioning, plumbing, steam, refrigeration, pneumatic and electrical control system, fuel distribution system, boilers, waste control and sewage treatment, etc. Facilities constructed are Locks and Dams, utilities, office buildings, warehouses, powerhouse cranes, generator rewinds, etc. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). B. Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience to qualify. For this grade level, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.