Project Engineer, Civil Engineering

Location: Laurel

Summary

Joining the Secret Service, Office of Training, James J. Rowley Training Center will allow you to serve as a Project Engineer for buildings, training facilities, and unique structures requiring a high degree of ingenuity and innovative design concepts.

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Duties

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The selectee will serve as a Project Engineer in the Office of Training, James J. Rowley Training Center. Typical work assignments include:

• Overseeing the technical planning, development, and direction of construction or engineering of buildings and facilities (e.g. dormitories, classrooms, training compounds, multipurpose buildings) that support organizational initiatives.
• Developing schematics, charts, architectural designs, sketches, and other presentation materials detailing the planning, design, and construction of buildings and facilities.
• Managing construction and engineering contracting, budgets, design plans, and costs; and modifying, adapting, or validating/ invalidating technical specifications to ensure that projects are implemented efficiently and effectively.
• Reconciling sponsor/customer concerns, assuring that all participating parties are informed or project progress, issues, and impacts.
  
  - Serving as the Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR) for projects when contracting is required.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.

If selected for this position, you will be required to:

• Obtain and maintain a top-secret Tier 5 clearance. For more information visit OPM Myth buster Page.
• Submit to a drug test prior to your appointment and random drug testing while you occupy the position.
• Submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE
  450) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
• Submit to complete annual ethics and procurement integrity training.
• Submit a credit check after a conditional offer of employment has been accepted.
• Must obtain and maintain FAC-P/PM Mid-Level Certification or equivalent within 24 months of assignment.
• Must obtain and maintain FAC-COR level 2 certification within 24 months of assignment.

As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider:

• your performance and conduct;
• the needs and interests of the agency;
• whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
• whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.

Qualifications

To be considered qualified for this position you must meet the following qualification requirements for the respective grade level in which you are applying.

Applicants must demonstrate that they meet the Basic Requirements AND Minimum Qualification requirements as listed below:

BASIC REQUIREMENTS:

A. Degree:
Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must:

(1) Lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET;

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(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.

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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 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…