General Engineer

Incumbent typical work assignments may include the following:

• Resolve issues potentially related to: unrealistic cost and schedule estimates; inadequate understanding and management of technical risk; unsound management practices inappropriate acquisition strategies; immature technology and inadequate industrial base capabilities.
• Leads the technical engineering programmatic review of the assigned portfolio and identifies issues or potential issues to include development of recommendations to address identified issues.
• Assesses participation in OSW Program and Budget Reviews and in support of Congressional reporting requirements working collaboratively with military service staffs the Joint Staff and Cost Assessments and Program Evaluation (CAPE) as well as other OSW organizations.
• Making critical recommendations on tradeoffs among programs within mission portfolios to buy the right things and balance the budget across Services and warfighting domains.

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Males born aftermust be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see be required to successfully complete a probationary/trial period
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment
• Required to participate in the direct deposit program
• This position is subject to pre-employment and random drug testing
• This position is subject to the DoD Priority Placement Program
• This position requires incumbent to file an OGE Form 450 Confidential Financial Disclosure Report upon appointment and annually thereafter.
• Position has been designated as Top Secret-Sensitive Compartmented Information Incumbent is required to obtain and maintain a Top Secret - SCI security clearance.
• This position requires Engineering and Technical Management Practitioner acquisition certification. More information found in Additional Information section

Qualifications

In order to qualify for this position you must meet the requirements described below.

Basic Requirement:

A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable the program must: (1) lead to a bachelors 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:

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 Boards 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 bachelors 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 bachelors 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.)NOTE: Applicants claiming eligibility under the related curriculum paragraph (4) must provide ONE of the two following documents: (a) Letter signed by the professional engineer who supervised the applicants training plan. The letter must include the starting date and completion date of applicants training plan and the courses experience and/or education completed during the training agreement; OR (b) Letter signed by a professional engineer who supervised the applicants professional engineering work experience. The letter must include the name of the Company/Agency dates of employment and a description of the professional engineering duties.

You may qualify at the NH-04 level if you fulfill the following qualification requirement:

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-03 grade level in the Federal service (experience may have been gained in the private sector). Specialized experience is defined as: experience managing the development of weapons technologies managing risk management processes and managing Planning Programming Budgeting and Execution processes.

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.

All qualifications and education requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement and clearly documented in your resume may not exceed two (2) pages. For qualifications determinations it is recommended that applicants include their months and hours worked per week for each employment listed on their resume. If a determination is not able to be made about the duration of your creditable experience for qualification requirements you will be removed from consideration.

Read more about what should I include in my federal resume at DUTY SERVICE MEMBERS: Federal agencies treat active duty service member as veterans disabled veterans and preference eligible when they submit as part of their application package a certification of active service in lieu of a DD-214 indicating the service member is otherwise eligible and will be discharged or released within 120 days from the date of submission.. A certification letter should be on letterhead of the appropriate military branch of the service and contain (1) the military service dates including the expected discharge or release date; and (2) the character of service. This certification must include your rank dates of active duty service type of discharge and character of service (i.e. honorable) and date any terminal leave will begin. It must be signed by or by direction of the adjutant personnel officer or commander of your unit or higher headquarters. Active duty members that fail to provide a valid certification of service with their initial application will be found not eligible. Members may be appointed before the effective date of their military retirement/separation if they are on terminal leave.

Current or Former Political Appointees: Agencies must seek prior approval from OPM before they can appoint a current or recent political appointee to a competitive or non-political excepted service position at any level. If you are currently or have been within the last 5 years a political Schedule A Schedule C or Non-career SES employee in the executive branch you MUST disclose that to the Human Resources Office.

Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement and clearly documented in your resume.

For entry at the NH-IV level status applicants must have served 52 weeks as a NH-III or higher grade in the Federal Service.