General Engineer

Summary

Organizational Location: This position is with the Department of Homeland Security, within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Facilities and Asset Management; Integrated Services Division; Technical Services Program Management Office located in Washington, DC; Euless, TX; and Aliso Viejo, TX.

Duties

This position is located within the Integrated Services (IS) Division, which brings together a diverse workforce, including Certified Program Managers, acquisition professionals, Contracting Officer Representatives (CORs), energy and environmental specialists, real estate professionals, architects, engineers, and technical designers to develop optimal solutions to meet the needs of OFAM and business partners. The General Engineer serves as a senior technical expert for CBP facilities projects, providing engineering guidance across facility planning, design, construction, maintenance, and disposal. The position develops and applies facility design standards, resolves complex building-system and compliance issues, reviews technical documents and cost estimates, and coordinates with stakeholders and contractors throughout the project lifecycle. This work supports CBP's mission by ensuring facilities are safe, reliable, compliant, and operationally effective for frontline personnel and mission-support operations. This position starts at a salary of $125,776.00 (GS-14, Step 1) to $163,514.00 (GS-14, Step 10). Recommends, develops, and applies technical requirements, facility design standards, and engineering guidance for complex facilities projects throughout the facility lifecycle, including planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and disposal. Develops engineering solutions using applicable design standards, building codes, construction practices, fire and life-safety codes, environmental and historic-preservation requirements, and accessibility standards. Resolves complex facility and building-system issues involving heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems; equipment failures; electrical power outages; building automation; fire alarms; water or air quality; site adaptations; code changes; or space constraints. Coordinates with senior leaders, facility stakeholders, on-site managers, facility users, government officials, program managers, partner agencies, contractors, and private-sector technical experts to address complex engineering and facility issues. Provides senior technical guidance on facility design standards, engineering requirements, fire and life-safety codes, accessibility requirements, and project-specific technical approaches.

Qualifications

This position has an Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR). Basic Requirement(s): A. Degree in 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 (5) five of the following (7) 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. -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: 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 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. ALONG WITH THE BASIC REQUIREMENT/IOR LISTED ABOVE, YOU MUST POSSESS AT LEAST ONE (1) YEAR OF SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE AS DESCRIBED BELOW TO QUALIFY BASED ON EXPERIENCE. Experience: You qualify for the GS-14 grade level if you possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, performing duties such as: Managing engineering or architectural projects involving facility planning, design, construction, renovation, maintenance, or repair for operational facilities or other complex buildings. Identifying and resolving complex facility or building-system issues involving heating, ventilation, and air conditioning; electrical power; fire alarms; building automation; safety; accessibility; environmental requirements; or building-code compliance. Developing or reviewing facility design standards, project requirements, technical recommendations, cost estimates, design changes, or operational improvements. Preparing or reviewing technical project documents, bid or contract packages, contractor proposals and work products, inspection reports, or project closeout documentation. Coordinating with organizational leaders, project managers, contractors, technical specialists, and external partners to assess facilities, monitor project or contractor performance, and implement engineering solutions. NOTE: Your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet this requirement, otherwise you will be found ineligible. Please see the "Required Documents" section below for additional resume requirements. 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience,