Interdisciplinary Environmental Engineer
Portland, OR - USA
Job Summary
THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 5 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.
This National Guard position is for a INTERDISCIPLINARY ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER T5904800 and is part of the Oregon Air National Guard 142nd Wing National Guard.
As a INTERDISCIPLINARY ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER GS This position is located Civil Engineering Squadron at an Air National Guard Wing.
1. Plans and schedules work in a manner that promotes a smooth flow and even distribution. Coordinates plans and schedules with other organization managers and customers as appropriate. Identifies need for changes in priorities and takes action to implement such changes. Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates sets and adjusts short-term priorities and prepares schedules. Assigns work to subordinate employees based on organization priorities and consideration of difficulty and requirements of assignments such that the experience training and abilities of staff are effectively utilized to meet organization and customer needs. Balances workload and provides advice guidance and direction on a wide range of policy investigative inspection/ exercise strategic planning and administrative issues. Structures assignments to create effective and economical positions. Coordinates with other organization managers and customers as appropriate. Reviews organization mission functions and manning. Identifies requirements and initiates requests for additional resources including personnel overtime equipment supplies training and space to ensure success in meeting goals and objectives. Provides advice to supervisor on significant issues and problems related to work accomplishment. Establishes metrics and utilizes analysis systems to ensure actions are timely and reviewed at critical points. Accepts amends or rejects work presented by subordinates. Performs self-assessments and presents detailed and comprehensive reports with any corrective action taken to supervisor. Follows-up to ensure complete and quality resolution of discrepancies. Assesses and revises policies and procedures as needed to find ways to improve quality timeliness and efficiency of work.
2. Responsible for the acquisition construction maintenance repair and operating of real property facilities and provides related management engineering and other support work. Specifically this includes (a) acquisition accountability and disposal of real estate; (b) planning and programming of total requirements for the maintenance repair and construction of facilities including financial management of facility programs; (c) provision of basic utility services; (d) maintenance and repair of structures and associated equipment; (e) furnishing snow removal pest control fire prevention and engineering services activities.
3. Represents the Base Architect/Engineer at meetings and conferences with HQ ANG and intermediate command staff Commanders and staff representatives of tenant organizations Division and District Engineer representatives of the Corps of Engineers and Naval Facilities Engineering Command metropolitan airports commission staff; FAA Veterans Administration highway department representatives; Federal states and city Environmental Protection Agency representatives. Coordinates on plans exchanges information recommends policy or procedures and keeps apprised of new architecture and engineering developments. Makes decisions in line with prior ANG Base policy and planning such as priority of new construction acceptance of completed work facility disposal real estate acquisition utilization or disposal actions.
4. Provides technical instructions and information on architectural engineering and other technical requirements and assigns phases of projects to subordinate architects engineers engineering technicians and draftsmen. Reviews work accomplishment during progress and upon completion directs changes to achieve technically accurate and adequate layout and design computations specifications and estimates. Directs and reviews establishment and maintenance of record drawings related files compilation of data for annual budgets and revisions thereto and project capitalization.
5. Through subordinate supervisors directs approximately twenty-five or more civilian and military employees engaged in readiness Crash-Fire-Rescue engineering design explosive ordnance disposal engineering and operational facility maintenance duties and is responsible for providing training and facilities for the OJT and proficiency training of approximately 100 drill status officers and airmen. Exercises personnel management responsibilities normally found in positions at this level including identification of training needs for supervisors and technical staff members.
6. Performs other duties as assigned.
*The above description only mentions a limited amount of the positions official duties. For a full comprehensive document that covers all the duties of the position please contact one of the Recruitment Specialists at the bottom of the announcement.
- Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- This position is covered by the Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Amendment (30 Sep 96) of the Gun Control Act (Lautenberg Amendment) of 1968. An individual convicted of a qualifying crime of domestic violence may not perform the duties of this position.
- The duties of this job may significantly impact the environment. You are responsible to maintain awareness of your environmental responsibilities as dictated by legal and regulatory requirements your organization and its changing mission.
- Must be able to establish effective professional working relationships with coworkers and customers contributing to a cooperative working environment and successful accomplishment of the mission.
- Federal employment suitability required and determined by a background investigation before appointment to position.
- May be required to successfully complete a probationary period.
- Must have a valid drivers license.
- Must be able to obtain/maintain the necessary security clearance for the position.
- May occasionally be required to work other than normal duty hours; shift work and/or overtime may be required.
- This position is designated as Essential Personnel and may be subject to duty in preparation for or in response to a state emergency or disaster declaration. This designation will not exceed 14 days per year unless approved in advance by the TAG.
AREAS OF CONSIDERATION:
Area 1: All on board permanent and indefinite T5 federal employees within the Oregon National Guard
Area 2: All on board permanent and indefinite T32 federal technicians within the Oregon National Guard
Area 3: All current non-permanent technicians/employees (T5 and T32) of the Oregon National Guard
Area 4: All current and former members of the Oregon National Guard (former members must provide documentation showing membership in the Oregon National Guard such as an NGB 22 or DD214)
Area 5: U.S. citizens
GENERAL AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
The duties and responsibilities of these positions are to perform professional engineering work to protect or improve air land and water resources in order to provide a clean and healthful environment.
GS-12 - Must have 1-year equivalent to at least next lower grade level experience education or training for management supervision or performance of (1) planning designing construction and/or maintaining structures and facilities; and (2) investigating measuring surveying and mapping the earths physical features.
Applicants who meet one of the DoD Priority Placement Program categories below are eligible to apply with this preference.
- Priority Placement Program DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible
- Priority Placement Program DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement
- Priority Placement Program DoD Retained Grade
Applicants claiming Priority Placement Program DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible must submit the following documentation:
- Military Reserve and National Guard Technician PPP Self Certification Checklist (DD 3145-3)
- Termination SF-50 Separation stating that the applicant has Priority Placement Eligibility
- Notice of Separation confirming of eligibility.
Applicants claiming Priority Placement Program DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement must submit the following documentation:
- Military Reserve and Technician Disability PPP Self Certification Checklist (DD 3145-2)
- Termination SF-50 Separation stating that the applicant has Priority Placement Eligibility
- Notice of Separation confirming of eligibility.
Applicant claiming Priority Placement Program DoD Retained Grade Employees must submit the following documentation:
-DoD Retained Grade Self Certification Checklist (DD 3145-1)
- SF-50 effecting the placement in retained grade status
- Copy of the notification letter the employee received (RIF or classification downgrade)
Applicants claiming Priority Placement Program Military Spouse Preference must submit the following documentation:
- DoD Military Spouse Preference Self Certification Checklist (DD 3145-4)
- Sponsors PCS Orders
- Proof of Military members current active duty status
- Marriage Certificate
All applicants Must meet the following education 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) 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.)
Veterans Preference Applicants: Veterans preference will be validated by reviewing submitted documentation. Acceptable documentation may be:
1. A copy of your DD-214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty which shows dates of service and discharge under
honorable conditions.
2. A certification that is a written document from the armed forces that certifies the service member is expected to be discharged or released from active duty service in the armed forces under honorable conditions not later than 120 days after the date the certification is signed.
3. You may obtain a letter from the Department of Veterans Affairs reflecting your level of disability for preference eligibility by visiting a VA Regional Office contacting a VA call center or online.
4. If claiming 10 point preference you will need to submit a Standard Form SF-15 Application for 10-point Veterans Preference.
If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency ( following applies to Bargaining Unit Positions:
Bargaining unit positions within the Oregon National Guard are represented by AFGE local 2986 (AFL-CIO).
Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government passionate about the ideals of our American republic and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.
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Required Experience:
IC