Mechanical Engineer

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 staff specialist in the Electrical-Mechanical Section of the Kansas City District office in planning, designing, and coordinating mechanical engineering activities for civil works, military works, and work for others.

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. SELECTIVE PLACEMENT FACTOR: The incumbent of this position will be required to have a current Professional Engineer License.

Basic Education Requirement for Engineers: 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: 1.

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.

2.

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.

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 A above.

The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. 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 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.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: To qualify at GS-13, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade/level (GS-12).

Specialized experience is defined as: 1. Performs mechanical design in full range of mechanical systems for MILCON and CW projects. 2.

Provides authoritative advice on designs as well as during the construction phase of projects. 3.

Reviews and approves mechanical engineering features of design and construction documents, Major Duties:

• Provides consulting engineer services to Army, Air Force, SWPA, VA and DECA senior managers. Participates on source selection boards. Participates on local and regional policy boards.
• Applies advanced concepts, principles, and practices of mechanical engineering to develop technical criteria and modify existing guide specifications, or develop new specifications as required.
• Performs special studies of mechanical materials, devices and methods.
• Applies a wealth of advanced concepts, principles, and practices of mechanical engineering to serve as the mechanical design expert in full range of mechanical systems for MILCON and CW projects.
• Designs, and reviews mechanical design features of proposed works.
• Provides authoritative advice on designs as well as during the construction phase of projects.
• Provides second level review of designs prepared by other Corps Districts for Independent Technical Review.
• Serves as the technical facilitator in mechanical design team assigned to the Design Branch, including virtual teaming with members outside of the district.