Fire Protection Engineer.
As a Technical Specialist and Fire Protection Engineer in the Omaha District, you will play a key role in developing and directing fire protection design efforts.
Responsibilities
- Develop fire protection design criteria for the Omaha District to supplement Army-wide criteria.
- Direct the design effort of multiple disciplines including Architectural, Mechanical, Electrical, and Civil Engineers for various facets of Fire Protection Design.
- Define the scope of fire protection requirements based on engineering knowledge, judgment, and functional requirements.
- Direct life-cycle cost analysis to evaluate and rank design alternatives with regard to overall economy.
- Represent the Omaha District to coordinate and furnish engineering advice on unique and complex fire protection design problems.
- Review the quality of all Fire Protection engineering design and construction features.
- Develop Fire Protection designs, reports, plans, specifications, and other engineering products for construction services.
- Mentor junior engineers on fire protection principles and design.
Requirements
- Must possess and maintain a Professional Fire Protection Engineer registration (copy required).
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 25% of the time.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen.
- This position requires a current, active, valid, and unrestricted license as a Professional Fire Protection Engineer in a state, the District of Columbia, or a territory of the United States.
Qualifications
To qualify, you must meet the education and 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).
Basic Requirement for Fire Protection Engineer:
- A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher) in engineering. The program must:
- Lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); OR
- 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:
- statics, dynamics;
- strength of materials (stress-strain relationships);
- fluid mechanics, hydraulics;
- thermodynamics;
- electrical fields and circuits;
- nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and
- any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
- B. Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished:
- A thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and
- A good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering.
- Professional registration or licensure (e.g., current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE)).
- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration.
- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences, including the courses specified in A above.
- 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), provided the applicant has at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision.
Specialized Experience:
- One year of specialized experience which includes:
- Reviewing the quality of all Fire Protection engineering design and construction features; developing Fire Protection designs, reports, plans, specifications, and other engineering products for construction services.
- Mentoring junior engineers on fire protection principles and design.
- This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).
- No substitution of education for experience is permitted for this position.
Foreign Education:
If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that 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.
Benefits
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time, or intermittent.
Additional incentives may include:
- Relocation, Recruitment, Student Loan Repayment, Advance in Hire, or Advance Leave Accrual incentives (if in the best interest of the government).
- Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and an agency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest.
Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.