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The Volpe Center seeks to hire a Supervisory General Engineer. This position may be used to fill two supervisory positions within the Advanced Vehicle Technology Division and the Infrastructure Engineering & Deployment Division. As a Division Chief, you will manage and expand the division’s portfolio of work, interact with sponsors and internal stakeholders, supervise approximately 10-15 technical staff and promote the development of their skills and expertise.
Learn more about this agency03/22/2023 to 04/20/2023
$154,007 - $183,500 per year
GS 15
2 vacancies in the following location:
No
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Occasional travel - Position may require some travel.
No
Permanent
Full-time - Full Time
Competitive
15
Yes
No
OST.RVOLPE-2023-0014
714229800
Applications will be accepted from any U.S. citizen. Direct Hire Authority will be used to fill this position. The 'Rule of Three', Veterans Preference and traditional rating and ranking of applicants does not apply to this vacancy. This is not a Bargaining unit position.
Duties as a Supervisory General Engineer vary by office.
Supervisory General Engineer in the Advanced Vehicle Technology Division, V337: The Advanced Vehicle Technology Division conducts engineering, research, and analysis to improve the safety and cybersecurity of emerging technologies in motor vehicles and supporting infrastructure for the safety of operators and the drivers. The Division conducts safety and security assessments, recommends strategies for system and infrastructure modernization and optimization, and provides independent investigations and evaluations for our partners. The Division’s partners include the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office, the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Transit Administration, Department of Defense, and the Department of Homeland Security.
Duties:
Supervisory General Engineer in the Infrastructure Engineering and Deployment Division, V335:The Infrastructure Engineering and Deployment Division provides hands-on infrastructure engineering solutions for the National Air Space, marine engineering, integrated systems security, surface and rail systems, and infrastructure and system modernization. The division’s partners include the US Air Force, US Army, US Nay and other Department of Defense partners, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Defense (DOD), National Park Service (NPS), Maritime Administration (MARAD), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and other federal, state and local agencies.
Duties:
The ideal candidate has experience providing leadership in projects that require comprehensive analysis, engineering assessment, policy or operations research related to transportation technology used to improve the safety, efficiency or effectiveness of transportation systems or operations. This position requires experience in an entrepreneurial, fee-for-service environment, superb communication skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships with staff, colleagues, supervisors and sponsors. The candidate should have strong leadership, personnel supervision, management, engineering, written and oral communication, consulting, interpersonal and problem-solving skills. Significant experience in direct management of staff and programs is required. The candidate should have the ability to lead, direct, develop and mentor staff, to work with high-level agency officials and sponsors, to work with senior leadership and external stakeholders, and effectively collaborate within a management team.
This job is also being advertised as a Supervisory Operations Research Analyst, under announcement number OST.RVOLPE-2023-0010
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:
To meet the minimum qualifications for this position, you MUST meet the education requirements and specialized experience qualifications for the grade at which you are requesting consideration.
To qualify for the GS-15, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equal or equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the following:
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:
For all types of consideration, 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
For additional information about applying to Federal positions, please click on the following link: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-policies/#url=e4
Other applicants must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
All Professional Engineering Positions, 0800
All applicants must meet one of the following requirements to qualify for consideration for an engineering position:
A. 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
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:
For more specifics, please see the OPM qualifications standard for GS-800: All Professional Engineering Positions qualifications at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf
This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if similar vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue date of the referral certificate.
Qualified CTAP/ICTAP candidates receive priority and will be referred to the hiring manager.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
For this announcement, all applicants will be reviewed to determine if they meet the basic qualifications for this position, specifically the educational requirements. Applications that are verified to meet the basic qualifications will be referred to the selecting official.
Applicants will not be rated or ranked. Veteran’s Preference does NOT apply.
DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE: PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantiated by a resume. If, upon review, it is determined that your resume and/or supporting documents do not support your answer choices, your application may be removed from consideration.
Please ensure that your work history provides enough details to support your answers.
ALL Applicants must provide a resume that fully supports the required specialized experience and was created within USA Jobs Resume Builder and respond to the vacancy questions by the closing date of the vacancy. Formatted resumes can be uploaded when you arrive at the DOT application system. For assistance with the resume builder, please visit: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/account/documents/resume/build/
TRANSCRIPTS - Transcripts are REQUIRED if there is a stated education requirement for the series OR if you are substituting education for experience. The transcripts need not be official, but must show that you meet the stated education requirements, including specific major or class requirements.
DISPLACED EMPLOYEES: If requesting consideration under the Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or Interagency CTAP program (ICTAP), you must meet the well qualified standards for this vacancy (meeting minimum requirements for position and scoring at least an 85) and provide all of the following documents:
Displaced employees may be eligible for ICTAP or CTAP priority consideration.
For more information, please review the OPM Employee's Guide to Career Transition.
Failure to submit any of the required documents by the closing date of the vacancy will result in your removal from consideration for this position. Please review your application prior to final submission and ensure you have submitted all appropriate documents. Uploading documents to USA Jobs does NOT ensure inclusion with your application to our system. You must verify that the documents are in the system with your application prior to final submission.
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
You must submit a complete application package (including resume, vacancy questions and supporting documents) no later than 11:59 pm (EST) on the closing date of the announcement.
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