General Engineer

Summary

The Volpe Center is hiring General Engineers with strong data analytics backgrounds as technical leads for multidisciplinary transportation projects. Selected candidates will oversee and execute complex measurements, modeling, and analytical studies. Responsibilities include applying advanced data science, statistical modeling, and core engineering principles to evaluate transportation systems, fuel burn, emissions, noise, or air quality across diverse sponsor initiatives.

Duties

As a General Engineer, you will: Perform and oversee expert engineering analyses and thoroughly evaluates the various alternatives for meeting the objectives of the assignment. Coordinate and direct the work of other engineers who are assigned to accomplish portions of broad tasks. Plan, design, and implement qualitative and quantitative analyses to objectively address complex needs for projects. Participate in building and maintaining effective teams independently and in conjunction with the Division Chief/project leader, through support to recruitment, mentoring, and performance feedback. Prepare progress reports, published technical reports or chapters of reports, graphical communications, peer reviewed papers, and deliver presentations to Volpe Center management, sponsor representatives, and representatives of other agencies or bodies. The ideal candidate is a versatile technical leader who seamlessly blends a strong engineering foundation with advanced data science and analytical skills. The candidate will have demonstrated experience in data modeling, measurement, and statistical analysis, ideally applied to transportation domains such as emissions, fuel burn, air quality, noise, or vibration. As a collaborative team player, the candidate will excel at managing diverse project portfolios and adapting their quantitative expertise across varying sponsor needs.

Qualifications

To meet the minimum qualifications for this position, you must (1) meet the Education Requirement for the series, (2) provide a copy of transcripts for verification, AND (3) meet either the education or experience qualifications for the grade at which you are requesting consideration. To qualify for the GS-14, you must have at least one year of experience equal or equivalent to the GS-13, it must include: Experience as a technical lead, working with multidisciplinary teams to manage, analyze, and present data-intensive engineering data across multiple projects and sponsors; AND Experience applying advanced engineering principles, quantitative data analytics, and modeling techniques to design, execute, and deliver results for multi-source measurement and analysis projects. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas: Mathematical Reasoning: Solves practical problems by choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical and statistical techniques. Project Management: Knowledge of the principles, methods, or tools for developing, scheduling, coordinating, and managing projects and resources, including monitoring and inspecting costs, work, and contractor performance. Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, considering the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately. 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, including volunteer experience. For additional information about applying to Federal positions, please click on the following link: https://www.opm.gov/frequently-asked-questions/employment-faq/federal-hiring/how-do-i-apply-for-federal-jobs/ All applicants must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

MANDATORY EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: 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: 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) 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive). All applicants must meet the education requirements under A or B to qualify for applying to an engineering position. Transcripts are required for this position.

Requirements

• •You must be a U.S.Citizen and eligible for consideration.
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