Interdisciplinary General Engineer

Expiration Date: 01/30/2025

Announcement #: 5747

Opening Date: 06 June 2024                                                     Pay Plan/Series/Pay Band: NF-0801-04

Closing Date: Until Filled                                                          Work Schedule: Full Time 

Position: Interdisciplinary General Engineer                         Salary: $77K-$96,026K Annually 

Who May Apply: All Sources                                             Who May Apply: All Sources                                                   Location: Chesapeake, VA – Headquarters

                                                                                                                                                                                                 Community Services Command Operations

DUTIES:

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.

You will be evaluated for this position based on how well you meet the qualifications below. Your resume/application must demonstrate the required experience/education. Please see additional information on how your application is evaluated.

Qualification Requirements:

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

USCG COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMAND COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS: 

By choosing to work for the Coast Guard Community Services Command, you will enjoy one of the best benefit packages available anywhere. Benefit offerings are subject to applicable worker categories (Full-time, Part-time, Intermittent), location, position, and length of time in service.

• Paid Annual and Sick Leave
• Holiday Pay
• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Flexible/Dependent Spending Account
• Pension Plan
• 401k Savings Plan
• Life Insurance
• Short Term/Long Term Disability
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid Parental Leave

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.

HOW TO APPLY

Additional Information on how you will be evaluated:

Your resume/application must demonstrate the required experience/education.   Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through the National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social, committee, sports, internships).  Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and leadership experience that translates directly to paid employment.  Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position.   Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience. 

You MUST submit a resume or any other written format in English of your choice which clearly identifies: (1) The announcement number, title and pay band of the job you are applying for, and, (2) Information such as full name; mailing address; country of citizenship (U.S. Citizenship required OR valid authorization to work in the US); highest Federal grade or NAF pay band held with job series, title, and dates held (if applicable); a statement requiring proof of veterans’ preference by means of DD 214; education; and relevant work experience including start/end dates, supervisor’s name and phone number, salary and title, series and grade if experience was with a non-appropriated fund instrumentality of the Federal government.  You must also include a copy of your most recent performance appraisal if you are a current Federal or NAF employee.  Applications may not be sent in franked Government envelopes; applications filed in this fashion will not receive consideration.  If information is not complete, you may be excluded from consideration. The first application and/or resume submitted for a specific requisition will be considered the only submission. Any duplicate submissions to the same requisition will not be considered. The application date will be used in determining these factors.

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Interdisciplinary General Engineer FT 5747

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Equal Employment Opportunity:  All candidates will be considered without regard to any non-merit factor such as race, color, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or marital status. 

PRIVACY ACT NOTICE

Authority: The U.S. Coast Guard rates applicants under the authority of Title 5 of U.S. Code, Sections 301, 1104, 1302, 2103, 3301, 3304, Executive Order 9397, and Departmental Regulations.

Principal Purpose: To collect information needed to determine how well an applicant’s education and work experience qualify them for the job they are applying for.

Routine Use: This information provided will be shared with the hiring manager and interview panel members. It may also be shared in response to a request for discovery or for appearance of a witness, information that is relevant to the subject matter involved in a pending judicial or administrative proceeding.

Disclosure: Voluntary, however, failure to disclose requested information may result in an applicant not receiving consideration for a position in which the information is needed.

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: An agency may not conduct or sponsor an information collection and a person is not required to respond to this information unless it displays a current valid OMB control number and an expiration date. The control number for this collection is OMB 1625-new, expiration 01/30/2025. The estimated average time to complete this application is 40 minutes. If you have any comments regarding the burden estimate you can write to U.S. Coast Guard, Community Services Command, 510 Independence Parkway, Suite 500, Chesapeake, VA 23320.

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