Mechanical Engineer

About the role

The Facilities Branch of the Finance and Facilities Division provides a wide range of facilities support and management services across multiple sections. These sections and responsibilities include:

• The National Capital Region Section: Provides timely, suitable, modern, safe and secure working environments/facilities and provides quality facility support services for the HQ Divisions in the Washington, DC area.
• The Real Property Management Section: Administers professional and responsive facilities management, including engineering and design research; construction and spatial modification solutions; maintenance and energy monitoring; and logistical services for the tenant organizations at the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA.
• The Redstone Facilities Services Section: Responsible for all planning, construction, occupancy, facilities, and services located across the FBI Redstone campus, Huntsville, AL.
• The Field Operations Support Section: Provides real estate and facility support services for the FBI’s 56 Field Office property portfolios and international Legat locations. This section also supports the FBI’s fleet inventory and firearms range program.

Responsibilities

Designs, layouts and construction of complex mechanical systems such as plumbing, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, fuel storage and distribution in the FBI facilities. Reviews designs, plans, specifications, and analyses for technical accuracy, regulatory compliance, industry standards, and FBI requirements. Recommends design changes as needed and ensures contractor-submitted mechanical equipment and shop drawings meet specifications. Performs heating/cooling load calculations, heat transfer, pressure calculations, duct/pipe sizing, and other tasks to support mechanical design and equipment selection for HVAC systems. Provides design support for engineering studies, code reviews, field investigations, and report generation. Conducts field inspections to review existing mechanical utilities as well as ongoing and proposed projects. These reviews include items that affect existing systems, specifications, and cost estimates. Based on analysis of information obtained, provides recommendations of appropriate actions to be taken to higher level mechanical engineers. Analyze existing equipment and systems to determine their overall efficiency and to provide recommendations concerning use in the new facility or replacement, repair or improvements. Prepares or oversees preparation of in-depth technical reports/papers concerning complex mechanical engineering matters. Such reports are further used to determine current and long-range program needs of the Bureau. Provides engineering support to facilities systems; driving upgrade projects from concept to completion, as required for continuous improvement of the facilities systems to ensure that support and services of the department meet the highest quality standards and performance.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. citizen. Must be able to obtain a Top Secret clearance. Some travel may be required. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Work is primarily sedentary in an office setting or the on-site construction trailer; however, frequent: on-site inspections will require walking, bending, stooping, and climbing. Lifting of heavy materials and objects will also be required. WORK ENVIRONMENT: Majority of work is performed in an office setting or an on-site construction trailer. The work environment will consist of inclement weather, proximity to unfinished construction materials, negotiating partially completed building structural components, exposure to high voltage electrical vaults and rotating mechanical equipment. Travel is required to and from Headquarters, the construction site, and other locations to attend meetings regarding the construction project.

Qualifications and Evaluations

Please ensure that your specialized experience and requirements are clearly identifiable in your resume. Your application will be evaluated using the FBI’s Candidate Rating Procedures. Your resume and supporting documents will be reviewed to verify that you meet the job qualifications listed in this announcement. Applicants must meet the qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement. If you are found minimally qualified, your application will move forward to additional phases of the review process. The competencies will be used in a Structured Resume Review to objectively evaluate applicant resumes. Do not provide a separate narrative written statement. Rather you must describe in your resume how your past work experience demonstrates that you possess the competencies identified below. Your resume should demonstrate that you possess the following competencies: Analytic Thinking, Engineering and Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Communication, Flexibility/Adaptability, Positive.

Education Requirement

This position has a specific education requirement; all applicants must verify completion of this basic educational requirement by submitting a copy of their college transcripts by the closing date of the vacancy announcement. Basic Requirements: Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a 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 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: Professional registration or licensure - 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. 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. 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. 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 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.) Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements provided you can show foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States.