Clarification from the agency

This announcement is open until filled.

This staff engineer position is with the Facilities Team of the Coast Guard Exchange System's Operations Directorate. Its job functions may be executed at Coast Guard Exchange System facilities located in the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico.

Please limit your resume to 5 pages. If more than 5 pages are submitted, only the first 5 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications. Submissions of transcripts are required for consideration.

As an interdisciplinary general engineer, you will utilize your professional knowledge of engineering and project management expertise to execute projects from the preliminary identification stage through the initiation, planning, execution, and project closeout stages.

Examples of duties include:

• Managing design, construction, and alteration projects involving government/leased buildings of various sizes, and other structures.
• Addressing/solving difficult problems in engineering design, planning, coordination, code requirements, and other engineering related matters.
• Reviewing the design of private sector architects and consulting engineers for programmatic conformance in compliance with Coast Guard policies, codes, regulations and standards.
• Developing specifications and drawings for projects.
• Representing the Contracting Officer on Architect/Engineer, and Construction contracts as the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR).
• Preparing independent government estimates and reviewing contractor proposals (A/E, and Construction Contractor).
• Participating in negotiations with contractors.

Other duties as assigned.

Conditions of employment

OTHER ESSENTIAL INFORMATION:

• Selectee will be required to participate in Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer as the Standard method of payment for payroll and travel purposes.
• Males born after 12/31/59 and at least 18 years of age must be registered with the Selective Service System, unless covered by an exemption under the Selective Service Law, in accordance with 5 U.S. Code 3378. Selectee will be required to provide a written statement regarding his registration status unless he is exempted by this statute.
• Must satisfactorily complete a Federal Background check.

Qualifications

Minimum:
Basic Education Requirements:

A. Engineering Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in the 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:

1. Professional Registration or Licensure. Current registration/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 are closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant to attain registration through a State Board's eminence provision as manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test. Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering examination, Engineer in Training 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.

Education
This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcript(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcements to verify qualifications. If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the US Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.

If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript to receive credit for that education.

Preferred (In addition to all of the minimum):
In addition to the Basic Education Requirements listed above, you must have one year of specialized experience that equips the applicant with the skills and other characteristics to successfully perform the position's duties. Examples of specialized experience are developing specifications and drawings for building construction and alteration projects; managing design, construction, or alteration projects involving buildings and/or major building systems; and coordinating the activities of architects, engineers, and construction contractors on such projects. Such experience must also include having independently managed projects (balance scope/quality, schedule, and budget) requiring the services of multiple disciplines from the project initiation phase through project closeout.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

In describing your experience, please be clear and specific. We will not make assumptions regarding your experience.

Successful candidates will possess the following competencies (Knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics):

• General Engineering
• Oral and Written Communication
• Problem Solving
• Project Management
• Technical Competence
• Knowledge of Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) duties and limitations for construction, repair and alteration contracts