- 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.
- 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, or Puerto Rico3.
- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in A above.
- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.
- Engineers and Scientists (Non-Construction) position.
general engineer - Fort Belvoir, United States - United States Army Futures Command
Description
Summary About the Position:
This position is a Term NTE 13 months position and can not be made permanent.
Responsibilities
Responsible for complete research and development programs that are so broad and complex they frequently must be further divided into manageable segments.
Apply a very high degree of imagination and creativity in the solution of problems of marked importance for which there is almost a complete absence of applicable guidelines, pertinent literature and methodology.
Carry out advanced applied research and development activities involving pioneering work of outstanding scope, difficulty, and complexity in unexplored or heretofore unpromising areas of investigation.
Conceive, plan, and conduct projects considered to be of primary importance in achieving new concepts, configurations and performance characteristics that may result in establishing new theories and a deeper understanding of phenomena.
Responsible for complete research and development programs that are so broad and complex they frequently must be further divided into manageable segments.
Serve on special task forces and committees involving development of new programs, evaluation of various proposals, long-range planning, evaluation of highly controversial issues, or investigation of critical difficulties.
Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Who May Apply:
Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.
You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.
See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan In order to qualify, you must meet the education and or experience requirements described below.
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).
You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.
Additional information about transcripts is in this document.Basic Requirement for Engineering 800 :
A
Degree:
Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering.
To be acceptable, the program must:
(1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) 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. OR 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 licensureFor 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 TestOrdinarily 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.
In addition to meeting the basic requirement, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of specialized experience which prepared you to do the work of this job.
One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the DB-03 (GS-13) grade level in the Federal service which includes: 1) Administratively and technically supervises and interdisciplinary professional staff engaged in policy, planning and or development; 2) Expertise in project planning, resourcing, and execution, leading groups or teams, assigning work assignments, establishing objectives, roadmaps and strategic plans, and resolving administrative, technical and personnel problems.
3) Implementing acquisition engineering policy and briefing on engineering project status, accomplishments, and challenges.You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
Decision Making General Engineering Oral Communication Problem Solving Time in
Grade Requirement:
Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-13)
Education FOREIGN EDUCATION:
If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S.
education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.For further information, visit:
d.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/. Additional Information Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration. You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. One year trial/probationary period may be required. Direct deposit of pay is required. Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
This is a(n)Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest.
This is a Science and Technology Laboratory Personnel Demonstration Project position and incorporates the GS-14 step 01 through GS-15 step 10.
This position has an education requirement, therefore, Official college or university transcript (or copies) must be submitted to be considered eligible.