Basic Requirements:

1. 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; 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

2. 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), 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 Board's 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 bachelor's 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 bachelor’s 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.)

AND

To qualify at the GS-11 grade level, you must meet one of the following:

At least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 grade level in the federal sector. Specialized experience may include the following: assisting Lab manager with drafting Lab briefs, making Pen and Ink changes as required to Access List and after three changes, sending copy of access list to team for verification and creation of updated list, maintaining combinations for assigned Safes and Lab Door, determining change combos annually or when someone departs, assisting with Inventory Classified Material each time safe is opened and annually with classified material control officer (CMCO), Test Intrusion Detection System (IDS) monthly, responding to IDS alarms when activated at any time of day or night, determining cause of alarm and verify all classified holdings are accounted for, working with team on any security issues; assisting senior staff with maintaining Server Room, providing Rack Space, Power and Network connectivity for systems hosted, updating Rack Elevation Drawings, validating Rack Elevation Drawings at least semi-annually, determining reason for any discrepancies and update drawings, reviewing power strip loads in each rack, ensuring the load is balanced across the 3 Phases and adjust as needed, verify rack power strips have enough load available to host new equipment, maintaining network documentation, reviewing network cut sheets in each rack semi-annually and update as needed, and maintaining and ensuring all installations meet TEMPEST requirements for separation.

OR Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree OR 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree that is directly related to the duties of this position.

OR Combination of graduate level education and specialized experience that meets 100% of the qualification requirements.

To qualify at the GS-12 grade level, you must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 grade level in the federal sector. Specialized experience may include the following: serving as a Lab manager, providing Security Overview of Lab, providing Lab briefs to new team members, making Pen and Ink changes as required to Access List and after three changes, sending copy of access list to team for verification and creation of updated list, maintaining combinations for assigned Safes and Lab Door, determining change combos annually or when someone departs, managing Inventory Classified Material each time safe is opened and annually with classified material control officer (CMCO), Test Intrusion Detection System (IDS) monthly, responding to IDS alarms when activated at any time of day or night, determining cause of alarm and verify all classified holdings are accounted for, working with team on any security issues; maintaining Server Room, providing Rack Space, Power and Network connectivity for systems hosted, updating Rack Elevation Drawings, validating Rack Elevation Drawings at least semi-annually, determining reason for any discrepancies and update drawings, reviewing power strip loads in each rack, ensuring the load is balanced across the 3 Phases and adjust as needed, verify rack power strips have enough load available to host new equipment, maintaining network documentation, reviewing network cut sheets in each rack semi-annually and update as needed, ensuring proper patch cables are being used and if wrong color patch cable is plugged into a switch, remove, then contact responsible Sys Admin, maintaining TEMPEST, and ensuring all installations meet TEMPEST requirements for separation.

National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees.  If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.