Electrical Engineer, GS

Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville (HNC)

Direct-Hire Authority (DHA)

Permanent

Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville (HNC)

Huntsville, AL

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD, Section 9905 to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. Veterans’ preference does not apply to this announcement. The incumbent serves as a technical expert in the highly complex Utility Monitoring and Control Systems (UMCS) Program Center of Expertise for USACE located atHND.

Isfully responsible forallassigned individual projects and technical coordination of assigned divisions of the UMCS Program. This includes establishment of criteria, review of designs, formulation and acceptance of testing procedures, resolution of specialized technical hardware and software problems, and all other technical coordination required toensure the successful deployment and operation ofeach assigned UMCS project. Advises and instructs other CEDivisions/Districts/Agenciesrelative toUMCS Program policies and technical procedures and makes binding on-the-spot decisions at the designer's facility, the supplier's factory, or on the installation site to solve controversial technical matters.

Volume of work approximates extensive millions in contracted systems. Provides expertise to the field operating Divisions/Districts/Agencies in resolution of operational and technical problems after UMCS acceptance, with emphasis on state-of-the-art technology. Conducts special studies of state-of-the-art UMCS applications and special problems which arise during design, construction, testing, and operation. Reviews planning for new systems or system expansion designs for conformance to established design techniques and standards.

Verifies all design analyses and calculations prior to the start of CE Division/Districtdetail design activities. Prescribes special technical performance requirements for the systemandsupport facilities required. Reviews and evaluates allproposed individual project changes for overall impacts and potential precedent-setting actions. Determines modifications required to existingequipmentinorder toachieve requiredperformancestandardsand technical requirements fornewsystems and equipment. Receives Architect-Engineer(AE) and contractor design and construction drawings, layout plans, design analyses, technical specifications, and construction quantity and cost estimates for procurement, fabrication assembly, installation, and testing of electromechanical and pneumatic control systems and components for various process control systems.

Advises, instructs, and directs technical and procedural aspects necessary to ensure proper interpretation and application of criteria, ensure correct performance of work, expedite production, resolve discrepancies, and provide technicalexpertisein the solution to complextechnicalproblems. Reviews contractor's planning ofinstrumentationandcontrolproposals, including hardware, software, devices, and components for accuracy, adequacy, and conformance with contract drawings and specifications, and specific design analysis requirements.

• A. Degree:
  Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must:
  • lead to a bachelor's 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…