INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNITY PLANNER/ GENERAL ENGINEER/ ARCHITECT

About the role

You will serve as a Senior Project Planning Subject Matter Expert (SME) within the Planning, Design, and Construction (PDC) Directorate's Strategic Planning Division (PDC3) of NAVFAC NORTHWEST.

Responsibilities

• Provide planning and design expertise and guidance to stakeholders on facilities programming and development.
• Lead interdisciplinary teams in the development of infrastructure projects that can improve efficiency and quality.
• Evaluate and monitor facility construction project timelines and milestones, including budget.

Qualifications

• This position has a Selective Placement Factor that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates at the GS-13 level.
• The Selective Placement Factor is: You must currently be a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) if applying for the 0801 series. You must be a Registered Architect (RA) if applying for the 0808 series. Your license or registration must be held in a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.
• Note: You must submit a copy of your current license or registration with your application package. A wall certificate will not be considered as meeting the described requirement.

Additional Qualifications

• Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-12) or pay band in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector:
• Developing, using, and improving Asset management, facility planning and/or Infrastructure Integrated Product Support policies, processes, and procedures;
• Programming and determining resource requirements (e.g. integrating asset management technologies and investment strategies) for facilities planning projects;
• Utilizing automated systems and software (e.g. Navy Shore Facility Planning System, EPG, and iNFADS) to produce facility or community planning projects, products, and services (AE, BFR,FPD, Facility Planning Studies, Site Approvals, DD1391s);
• Serving as Contracting Officer's Representative, Technical Representative or Project Manager preparing statements of work and government estimates (e.g. reviewing and evaluating work performed under contract for accuracy, adequacy and completeness).

Education

• For 0020 COMMUNITY PLANNER: Degree: community planning; or related field such as urban affairs, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, sociology, geography, economics, political science, or public administration that included at least 12 semester hours in the planning process, socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, urban and regional economic analysis, and development finance.
• For 0808 ARCHITECTURE: Degree: architecture; or related field that included 60 semester hours of course work in architecture or related disciplines of which at least (1) 30 semester hours were in architectural design, and (2) 6 semester hours were in each of the following: structural technology, properties of materials and methods of construction, and environmental control systems.
• For 0801 GENERAL ENGINEER: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) 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 (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.