Clarification from the agency

U.S. Citizens. Subject position(s) will be filled through delegated examining procedures. For definitions of common terms found in this announcement: http://dhsconnect.dhs.gov/org/comp/mgmt/dhshr/hr/Documents/JOA_Common_Definitions.pdf

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This position serves as a Project Manager within a multi-disciplinary architectural and engineering team. Projects include new construction of CG facilities or repair, maintenance, modification, or renovation of existing facilities. CG facilities include modern and historic buildings, waterfronts, airfields, hangars, aids-to-navigation facilities, communication facilities, single and multi-family housing, industrial buildings, multi-mission buildings, support structures and all associated utilities. Serves as the project point of contact for customers, activity, command, and contracting teams.  Serves as an electrical and mechanical engineer for independent technical reviews, project scoping, field investigation, planning, cost estimating, problem and conflict resolution, scheduling, design production and construction.

Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team.  Typical work assignments include:

• Planning specific objectives, milestones, and phases for complex projects, and makes needed innovations and modifications.
• Providing detailed technical decisions regarding scope, intent and extent of the work.
• Preparing special project plans and specifications where standard specifications are not adequate and work complexities often necessitate adaptation or modification of customary design practices and precedents and versatile and innovative planning requirements and engineering principles.
• Conceiving, analyzing, designing, planning, and executing large and/or complex designs for diverse range of engineering projects.
• Evaluating design objectives, performs complex technical calculations, and identifies the most economical and efficient procedures for project design and performance considering all influences.
• Preparing drawings, specifications and cost estimates including computer aided drawing for both design and drafting.
• Planning and executing a wide variety of logistics responsibilities including contractual support, logistics planning, and handling of logistics problems.
• Providing authoritative technical advice and guidance to the contractor performing work required by the contract.
• Approving technical submittals, and ensures that shop drawing review and approval, delivery of operations and maintenance data, and other technical data is accomplished in a timely manner.
• Preparing cost estimates and develops scope of work for change order requirements.
• Participating on a multi-disciplinary team performing Facility Condition Assessment inspections at CG facilities.
• Serving on various committees to ensure maximum effectiveness of the unit including natural working groups and quality improvement teams.

Conditions of employment

• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• The position requires a valid state driver's license.
• A one-year probationary period may be required.
• This position requires unofficial transcripts.
• This position may require occasional overtime work.
• This position requires a National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI).

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

1. Degree: professional engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum 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: (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

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:

1. Professional registration -- 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 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)2 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. (Must provide transcripts with your application.)
3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in 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 professional 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.)

AT THE GS-12 LEVEL: In addition to the basic requirements above, applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service.

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. 

Examples of specialized experience include:

• Developing preliminary and final construction drawings and specifications.
• Preparing drawings, specification and cost estimates.
• Coordinating with other engineers and architects in design development for a project.
• Evaluating designs, performing complex technical calculations. and identifying economical and efficient procedures.
• Developing new engineering approaches that advance current engineering concepts to apply analytical techniques to validate and resolve processes
• Providing in-house design to meet project objectives; evaluate planning, design and construction objectives
• Formulating and reviewing; approving and implementing engineering solutions to complex technical problems

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.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

We will review your résumé and supporting documentation to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. If you meet the minimum qualifications, your experience, education and training will be rated using the on-line assessment to place you in one of three categories.

The necessary Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities to perform this job are:

1. Knowledge of professional engineering concepts, principles and practices applicable to the full range of engineering duties.
2. Knowledge of related technical disciplines (i.e. mechanical, civil and ocean engineering and architecture) to ensure areas of overlapping intra-disciplinary responsibilities receive proper design consideration and all project objectives are met.
3. Knowledge of information technology relating to design engineering including computerized drafting, word processing, global information systems, spreadsheet and data bases, plus design programs associated with electrical engineering technical skills.
4. Knowledge of Life-Safety, American Disabilities Act (ADA), and other building codes and environmental regulations.

If you meet the minimum qualifications, you will be placed in one of the following categories:
1. Best-Qualified: Applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position and demonstrate high proficiency in all of the critical competencies, including all Selective Placement Factors (SPF) and appropriate Quality Ranking Factors (QRF) as determined by the job analysis.
2. Well-Qualified: Applicants possessing experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position and demonstrates acceptable proficiency in all of the critical competencies, including all SPFs and appropriate QRFs as determined by the job analysis.
3. Qualified: Applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position and demonstrate basic proficiency in most of the critical competencies, including all SPFs and appropriate QRFs as determined by the job analysis.

If you are best qualified, you may be referred to the hiring manager for consideration and may be called for an interview. Your resume and responses to the self-assessment questions are an integral part of the process for determining your qualifications for the position. Therefore, you must support your responses to the self-assessment questions by providing examples of past and present experience in your resume.

Veterans with 5-point preference who meet the eligibility and qualification requirements are placed above non-preference eligibles within the category in which they are qualified. Veterans who have a compensable service-connected disability of at least 10% are listed in the best qualified category, except when the position being filled is scientific or professional at the GS-09 grade level or higher. For information on veterans' preference, click here.