Delegated Authority Having Jurisdiction Code Compliance

The mission of the Office of Safety Health and Environment (OSHE) is to lead and support NIST in ensuring safe work is conducted in safe partnership with management and staff OSHE leads the development supports implementation and ensures continuous improvement of the management systems used to reduce risk across occupational health and safety radiation safety fire and life safety and environmental stewardship. This approach enables NIST to advance its scientific mission safely and efficiently while protecting the worker the public and the environment and complying with applicable laws and regulations.

If hired for this position you will:

• Evaluate inspect and test fire protection and life safety systems and sub-systems (fire suppression fire alarm mass notification special hazard egress etc.) related to research activities and building construction/renovation activities.
• Ensure NIST complies with industry standards and code requirements set forth in OSHA regulations applicable National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standards the International Code Council Building Codes and any NIST adopted codes and/or standards.

• U.S. citizenship
• Males born aftermust be registered for Selective Service
• Suitable for Federal employment
• Bargaining Unit Position: No
• Must possess a valid Professional Engineering (PE) License in Fire Protection
• Completion of Confidential Financial Disclosure Form OGE-450
• Satisfactory completion of a pre-employment medical examination

Individual Occupational Requirements

Basic Requirements:

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.)

In addition to the basic requirements to qualify for the ZP-III position applicants must have one year (52 Weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to a GS-09 grade level (ZP-II at NIST employees) in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as:

• Experience designing or reviewing fire protection and life safety systems across various occupancies (business laboratory education and industrial) AND
• Experience using the ICC suite of codes and NFPA codes and standards

• Experience independently leading complex design peer review commissioning or final approval of fire protection and life safety systems across multi-hazard high-complexity or high-occupancy environments. AND
• Experience interpreting the ICC suite of codes and NFPA codes and standards to evaluate non-standard designs variance requests or code equivalencies.