General Engineer

Full Job Description

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the Department of Defense (DOD) Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

About the Position: This position is located within the U.S. Army Installation Management Command, Directorate of Public Works, Master Planning Division, at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or 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 Requirement for all General Engineer positions: 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.

OR 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.) In addition to the Basic Requirements you must meet the Minimum Qualifications listed below: Minimum Qualification GS-09 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1) Preparing projects from design development through inspection and approval; 2) Preparing engineering drawings, plans, and specifications; and 3) Assisting in the development of engineering project requirements.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07).

OR Education: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.

OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12.

Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the first year (total graduate semester hours minus 18) by 18. Add the two percentages.

The minimum qualifications box is continued below in the education block: Major Duties:

• Plans, coordinates, develops and updates all phases of master plans, mobilization master plans and installation support books for military installations and designs for construction projects.
• Prepares or directs the preparation of master plans and basic data.
• Conducts or directs review of basic information, future development, and mobilization master plan drawings, tabulations, reports, studies and environmental impact assessments.
• Prepares or directs the preparation of the more complex master planning work, consisting of all phases of master planning for large multi-mission military installations.
• Develops requirements and total project cost estimates of in-house and contract labor for master and mobilization master plans and installation support books.
• Evaluates need for A-E or in-house services to complete master planning projects, participates in A-E selection, prepares the evaluation of requirements, and assists with or performs negotiations with A-E, in-house or general support Districts.
• Outlines plans for future use of facilities from information obtained from installation commander, tenant activities and facility engineer.
• Prepares and directs the preparation of analytical reports based upon broad experience and interpretation of established criteria.
• Analyze major existing and proposed facilities for development of the installation and indicating the basis for proposed land areas, land use assignments and utilization in the event of emergency or mobilization.
• Prepares or directs the development of environmental assessments of master plans and mobilization master plans.
• Maintains knowledge of government directives and guidance.
• Develops or manages the development of master plans and mobilization master plans for installations with multiple missions and tenants without conflict.
• Attends Installation Planning Board meetings at assigned installations to obtain information for use in future planning activities.
• Plans and coordinates the preparation of mobilization master plans and installation support booklets for military installations.