Engineering Technician (Mechanical)

Full Job Description

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: Serves as a Project Technician on energy, renewable and water projects. Who May Apply: US Citizens 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: assisting, analyzing, evaluating and recommending solutions to engineering systems problems and issues.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09). Major Duties:

• Serves as a Project Technician on energy, renewable and water projects.
• Assists with the preliminary planning, development of requirements, schematic plans and budgetary cost estimates leading to detailed engineering design of energy and water related projects.
• Applies practical experience and on-the-job training to perform energy and water saving engineering duties.
• Assists with the design and estimating of complex control systems for new and existing facilities on post and applies practical knowledge of engineering principles to assess specific requirements.
• Reviews proposed maintenance, repair and new construction projects for energy and water impacts and available utilities resources compatibility.
• Review is made to ensure compliance with energy and water consumption goals as assigned by higher headquarters, and with applicable Department of Defense and Department of the Army Regulations.
• Conducts preliminary engineering investigations to determine the feasibility and validity of new energy and water projects, analyzes conditions and makes appropriate recommendations.
• Collects and maintains files of installation energy consumption data.
• Serves as technical energy advisor to the Energy Manager and Division Chief.
• Analyzes base-wide energy and water data available from Energy Management Control System (EMCS), Metering and delivery tickets.
• Serves as the Contract Officer Representative (COR) for the propane delivery and utility privatization contracts.