Supervisory Environmental Engineer (Deputy Director)
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Washington, DC - USA
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Job Summary
The Architect of the Capitol is seeking a highly qualified and experienced Supervisory Environmental Engineer to serve within the Office of Safety and Code Compliance Environmental Division. The incumbent serves as the Deputy Director and as a senior technical and supervisory authority responsible for leading environmental compliance environmental engineering pollution prevention permitting and environmental management programs affecting facilities and operations across the Capitol Complex.
**This position is essential. The employee is required to report to work during emergencies and inclement weather situations.
Major Duties:
Supervisory and Leadership Responsibilities
- Provides input to the Director and office leadership regarding vision operational planning and budget in pursuing environmental program improvements.
- Provides administrative and technical supervision to professional and technical environmental staff within the Environmental Division.
- Plans assigns and evaluates work to ensure timely completion of projects and program objectives.
- Develops performance standards and conducts employee performance evaluations to support professional development and organizational effectiveness.
- Identifies training needs and promotes employee development through mentoring coaching and technical guidance.
- Supports Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) principles and fosters an inclusive and collaborative work environment.
- Coordinates workload priorities resource allocation and operational objectives to support agency mission requirements.
Environmental Program Management
- Leads and oversees agency-wide environmental compliance and environmental protection programs.
- Interprets and implements Federal state and local environmental regulations and standards.
- Develops environmental policies procedures guidance documents and best management practices.
- Provides expert technical guidance on environmental engineering permitting compliance assurance hazardous materials spill prevention and response oversight and leads the development of pollution prevention programs.
- Represents the agency in interactions with regulatory agencies stakeholders customer representatives and external partners regarding environmental compliance matters.
- Assists in responding to regulatory inspections audits investigations and regulatory enforcement actions.
Environmental Engineering and Project Management
- Oversees work on such projects as environmental engineering studies environmental planning efforts and long-range master planning design initiatives to ensure application of evolving technologies and environmental compliance requirementspractices in remediation technologies and approaches.
- Reviews project specific work such as engineering designs specifications and operational plans for environmental compliance considerations.
- Provides technical oversight for environmental registrations permitting inspections monitoring and reporting activities.
- Conducts environmental assessments investigations and compliance reviews.
- Supports sustainability and risk management initiatives across the Capitol Complex and at our Maryland and Virginia facilities.
- Develops and monitors project schedules budgets and deliverables.
Contractor Oversight
- Serves as a Contracting Officers Representative (COR) on assigned contracts and projects.
- Reviews contractor submissions technical deliverables and project performance for compliance with contractual and technical requirements.
- Coordinates with contractors consultants engineers and project teams to resolve technical issues and ensure project success.
Technical Consultation and Advisory Services
- Serves as a senior technical advisor on complex environmental engineering and compliance matters.
- Provides briefings and recommendations to executive leadership management officials and stakeholders.
- Conducts research and analysis related to environmental regulations engineering solutions and emerging environmental risks.
- Supports emergency response activities involving environmental incidents spills or hazardous conditions.
- Your resume and question responses must demonstrate the job-related KSAs.
- You must meet the definition of specialized experience.
- Must meet the educational requirement for Engineers.
- You must be able to pass a drug test.
To be employed by the Architect of the Capitol in a paid position an individual must meet one of the categories below:
- A citizen of the United States;
- A person who is lawfully admitted for permanent residence and is seeking citizenship as outlined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)(B);
- A person who is admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or is granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1158 and has filed a declaration of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and then a citizen when eligible;
- A person who owes allegiance to the United States (nationals of American Samoa Swains Island and the Northern Mariana Islands and nationals who meet other requirements described in 8 U.S.C. 1408); or
- A person who is currently an officer or employee of the Government of the United States.
You must meet the United States Office of Personnel Managements (OPM) qualification requirements (including specialized experience and/or educational requirements) for the advertised must meet all eligibility and qualifications requirements by the closing date of the job announcement. Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule is available for your review on the OPM web site atOPM qualification standards
Specialized experience:is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.
Candidates for the GS-14 grade level must have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower (GS-13) grade level in the Federal service.
Specialized experience for this position is having experience that demonstrates all of the following:
- Managing or overseeing environmental engineering or environmental compliance programs;
- Interpreting and applying Federal state or local environmental laws and regulations;
- Interacting with regulators and industry peers or counterparts;
- Leading environmental projects involving permitting compliance inspections pollution prevention environmental assessments or sustainability initiatives;
- Providing technical guidance related to environmental engineering environmental protection or regulatory compliance; and
- Supervising staff leading teams or managing environmental program operations.
In addition to meeting the specialized experience requirements for this position applicants must possess the following:
Education Required for Engineers:
A. Bachelors degree in professional engineering:To be creditable the program must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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: statics dynamics;(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 asoptics heat transfer soil mechanics or electronics.
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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 professional 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:
- Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern(EI) Engineer in Training (EIT) or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by anyState the District of Columbia Guam or Puerto Rico. Absent other means ofqualifying under this standard thoseapplicants who achieved such registration bymeans other than written test (e.g. State grandfather or eminence provisions) areeligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field oftheir registration. For example an applicant who attains registration through a StateBoards eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be ratedeligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
- Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals ofEngineering (FE)examination or any other written test required for professionalregistration by an engineering licensure board in the various States the District ofColumbia Guam and Puerto Rico.
- Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours ofcourses in the physical mathematical and engineering sciences and that included thecourses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must befully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program asdescribed in paragraph A.
- Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelorsdegree in an appropriate scientific field e.g. engineering technology physicschemistry architecture computer science mathematics hydrology or geology maybe accepted in lieu of a bachelors degree in engineering provided the applicant hashad at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional
engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either anestablished plan of intensive training to develop professional engineeringcompetence or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.)
For a detailed explanation of therelated curriculumorexperience please visit the following website at must provide an official transcript before appointment.
There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
Special Instructions for Foreign Education:
Education completed outside of the United States must be deemed equivalent to that gained in conventional/accredited U.S. education programs to be acceptable for Federal employment.
Qualifying education from colleges and universities in foreign countries must be evaluated in terms of equivalency to that acquired in U.S. colleges and universities. Applicants educated in whole or in part of foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence including transcripts to an accredited private organization for an equivalency evaluation of course work and degree.
You must provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluation with a course by course listing if selected.
Welcome Veterans.The Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) gives veterans preference rights in the legislative branch to certain veterans as applied by the Congressional Accountability Act. Veterans preference is applied on this vacancy announcement. If you are a veteran and have been separated under honorable conditions you must submit a copy of your DD-214 or other proof of eligibility; SF-15 if applicable; and Department of Veterans Affairs documentation of disability if applicable. For more information please visitOPM vet guide
If you are a male applicant born after December 31 1959 you must certify that you have registered with theSelective Service System. If you are exempt from registration under Selective Service Law you must provide appropriate proof of exemption. Please visit theSelective Service Systemwebsite for more information.
DRUG TESTING: The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is a Drug Free Workplace. As part of the AOCs suitability assessment a candidate tentatively selected for a position who is not currently an AOC employee is required to submit to screening for illegal drug use. Satisfactory completion of a drug test is a condition of employment with the Agency. A candidate must test negative prior to being eligible for appointment into a position. We will schedule provide and cover the cost for the drug test.
The selectee(s) under the vacancy announcement for this position is subject to a criminal record check by the U.S. Capitol Police and satisfactory adjudication to be eligible for employment at the Architect of the Capitol.
The Architect of the Capitol is an E-VERIFY Participant. E-VERIFY is an Internet-based system that compares information from an employees Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification to data from U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration records to confirm employment authorization in the United States. If you are selected for this position the documentation that you present for purposes of completing the DHS Form I-9 will be verified through the DHS E-VERIFY electronic system. For more information on E-Verify please visit Architect of the Capitol is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race color sex religion age national origin sexual orientation gender identity genetic information and/or disability.
This agency provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process please notify the agency. The decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be on a case-by-case basis.
Note: Please be advised that federal retired annuitant candidates may only be considered as a temporary employee if the role can be filled in that capacity.
Moving expenses are not authorized.
Relocation expenses are not authorized.
Probationary Period-A newly appointed selectee is subject to the completion of a one-year trial/probationary period regardless of whether or not a trial/probationary period has been completed previously with the Architect of the Capitol or another Federal agency.
This vacancy announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies in any of the jurisdictions of the Architect of the Capitol.
All application materials become the property of the Architect of the Capitol.
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.
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
A variety of health insurance plans; retirement system with investment options; paid holidays; paid sick and annual (vacation) leave; life insurance; incentive systems; subsidized transportation; training and development opportunities etc.
Selected applicant(s) may be eligible to earn a higher annual leave accrual rate credit towards annual leave accrual based on prior non-Federal or uniformed service work experience. The amount of service credit will be based on specialized experience or qualifying experience that is provided on the applicant profile submitted. As such if you are a new employee to the Federal Government or a rehire it is important that you provide a work history that lists all directly related positions held and it must include the dates of employment (month/day/year).
The Architect of the Capitol offers eligible employees opportunity to participate in the Student Loan Repayment Program.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
Required Experience:
Director
