Supervisory Engineer​/Architect

Summary

You will serve as a SUPERVISORY ENGINEER/ARCHITECT in the Naval Facilities Engineering Command of NAVFAC NORTHWEST.

• Provide construction engineering expertise in major engineering disciplines on projects of an unusual or complex nature.
• Responsible for technical acceptability and quality approval of all construction managed by the office.
• Responsible for workload planning, task assignment, organization, overall office management and supervision of all personnel assigned to the office.
• Responsible for hearing employee complaints and grievances and either resolving the issues or initiating proper recommendations for dispositions at a higher level.
• Act as a government witness at claims hearings requiring engineering and construction expertise.

This position has a Selective Placement Factor (SPF) that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates. The SPF is current registration as a Professional Engineer (PE) or Architect (RA) from any state, the District of Columbia, Guam or Puerto Rico. If you meet this requirement, you must provide a copy of your current registration with your application for verification purposes.

A copy of a wall certificate that does not show current registration status will not serve to verify you meet this requirement. In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS‑13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

• Providing construction engineering and technical expertise in major engineering disciplines.
• Reviewing technical and quality approval of all construction projects.
• Negotiating and administering contracts.
• Providing construction engineering expertise in major engineering disciplines on complex projects.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). https:// 0801/https:// Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Applicants for the Professional Engineering Series must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:
Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.

OR:
Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), 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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http:// . OR:
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. The FE examination is not administered by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit:…