Electrical Engineer

Summary

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: This is an Electrical Engineer GS-0850-12 position for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Southwestern Division, Tulsa District, Tulsa, Oklahoma. For additional information on USACE Tulsa District click Here

Duties

• •Serves as the lead technical authority for electrical quality assurance, performing reviews of contractor submittals including shop drawings, product data, and calculations for power distribution, lighting, fire alarm, and communication systems.
• •Conducts frequent site inspections and field investigations to verify construction of electrical systems comply with the approved design, identifying deficiencies and recommends corrective actions as the government's expert.
• •Acts as the primary troubleshooter for electrical issues in the field, serving as the lead consultant to construction personnel for resolving disputes and technical problems that arise on site.
• •Provides technical oversight of the electrical commissioning process, including witnessing functional performance tests and integrated systems testing to ensure all systems operate as intended prior to government acceptance.
• •As the electrical SME, performs BCOES reviews on final designs to identify risks and provide recommendations that improve the constructability, reliability, and maintainability of electrical systems.
• •Reviews and provides recommendations on value engineering proposals and contractor-initiated requests for information (RFIs) to ensure technical feasibility and compliance with project requirements.
• •Incumbent is responsible for the design of electrical features of work for construction of civil and/or military projects in the District.
• •Review directives, site plans, specifications, design criteria and other available data preparatory to the accomplishment of the electrical design and the preparation of design analyses.
• •Produce design packages utilizing electronic advertising accessible to construction contractors.
• •Perform Architect/Engineer (A/E) and peer reviews, reviews value engineering contractor proposals, and participates on value engineering study teams.
• •Conduct field investigations to study deficiencies in the operation of electrical equipment at construction projects.
• •Participate in pre-design conferences with customer representatives and higher authority for the purpose of determining applicable design criteria for proposed construction.
• •Closely coordinates electrical features with other design disciplines on each project to ensure that electrical designs are fully compatible with other engineering features of projects.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the experience and/or education 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. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1) Preparing or reviewing electrical engineering designs, analyses, and specifications for construction or renovation of facilities; 2) Resolving electrical engineering issues during construction; AND 3) Conducting field investigations of electrical systems to identify deficiencies, recommend solutions, or provide consultation on construction and maintenance projects. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). Note: Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted. In addition to meeting the specialized experience requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the basic education requirement listed below:

Education

Basic Requirements (for Engineers): A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's 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 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 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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 bachelor's 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.) ***NOTE: You MUST provide a copy of your transcripts with your application package or y