Engineering Technician

Full Job Description

About the Position: Serves as the technical expert within the Agency on individual responsibilities that include the operation, development, and final product of transportation engineering studies in the areas of traffic engineering and safety seminars.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army) Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 People with Disabilities, Schedule A Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the 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: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) Interpreting transportation engineering plans, studies, and/or specifications; 2) Applying transportation engineering principles to take corrective action on technical problems; and 3) Presenting technical data in order to defend or negotiate a program's results.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-10).

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-10).

Major Duties:

• Investigate, research, write, and/or edit traffic engineering safety bulletins.
• Extract data from engineering publications (such as handbooks, catalogs, reports, technical and field manuals) for use in a traffic engineering safety publication program.
• Monitor reported progress of traffic engineering studies to ensure valid reporting by contractors.
• Direct and/or conduct transportation engineering studies related to traffic engineering and/or traffic engineering safety seminars.
• Conduct installation site visits to gather preliminary information on traffic (vehicle/pedestrian based) field surveys and/or studies.
• Recommend technical approach to collecting and/or compiling vehicle/pedestrian traffic-related statistical data.
• Management of traffic engineering equipment to include directing the field use in surveys and/or monitoring.
• Compile and/or review engineering field data to establish baseline conditions and/or develop recommendations.
• Coordinate with others to plan work efforts.
• Draft and/or publish traffic (vehicle/pedestrian based) engineering reports and/or traffic engineering/safety publications.
• Present complex engineering material in a classroom and/or briefing environment.
• Brief installation and/or command level staff on recommendations and/or finding of field surveys.