Supervisory Interdisciplinary.

About the Role

As Chief of the Welding and Metallurgy Technical Center of Expertise Section, assumes responsibility for the accomplishment of work related to welding and metallurgy assigned to the Welding and Metallurgy Technical Center of Expertise (WM-TCX) located in Portland District, Engineering Division, Design Branch.

This position requires a professional engineering license at entry.

This position requires up to 25% travel.

An appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.

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.

Experience

At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in federal service with the design of structural and/or mechanical engineering features associated with construction projects for navigation, flood control, bridge safety, hydraulic steel structures (HSS), hydroelectric and/or vertical construction projects.

Competencies

• Building and Construction: Knowledge of and skill in applying Steel, Aluminum, and Fracture Mechanics Analysis (Civil/Mechanical) Engineering Specialty: Welding and Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)
• Hydraulic Engineering: Knowledge of Hydraulic Steel Structures and Mechanical Systems
• Leadership: Ability to manage, lead and supervise a multidisciplinary engineering and quality assurance staff
• Oral Communication: Ability to engage and communicate with officers, senior leaders and staff to instruct, resolve technical issues, and negotiate methods
• Technical Competence: Skill and technical expertise in advanced structural and mechanical engineering designs that include welding and/or hydraulic steel structure design.
• Project Management: Knowledge of managing engineering product teams from concept to delivery.

Education

• Basic Requirement for Interdisciplinary Engineer (0810, 0830): 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.
• 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:
• Professional registration or licensure - 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. 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) 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 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
• 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.