INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER - TITLE 5

Summary

***THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 5 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.*** This position is for a Civil Engineer, Position Description Number T5904800 located in the Civil Engineer Squadron of the 165th Civil Engineering Squadron, located at Garden City, Georgia. This is a full time Permanent position that DOES NOT require a National Guard commitment. Area of Consideration: All United States Citizens.

Duties

As a Civil Engineer, GS-0801-12, you will: Plan and schedule work in a manner that promotes a smooth flow and even distribution. Coordinate plans and schedules with other organization managers and customers as appropriate. Identify need for changes in priorities and take action to implement such changes. Plan work to be accomplished by subordinates, set and adjust short-term priorities, and prepare schedules. Assign work to subordinate employees based on organization priorities and consideration of difficulty and requirements of assignments such that the experience, training, and abilities of staff are effectively utilized to meet organization and customer needs. Balance workload and provide advice, guidance, and direction on a wide range of policy, investigative, inspection/exercise, strategic planning, and administrative issues. Structure assignments to create effective and economical positions. Coordinate with other organization managers and customers as appropriate. Review organization mission, functions, and manning. Identify requirements and initiate requests for additional resources including personnel, overtime, equipment, supplies, training and space to ensure success in meeting goals and objectives. Provide advice to supervisor on significant issues and problems related to work accomplishment. Establish metrics and utilize analysis systems to ensure actions are timely and reviewed at critical points. Accept, amend, or reject work presented by subordinates. Perform self-assessments and present detailed and comprehensive reports with any corrective action taken to supervisor. Follow-up to ensure complete and quality resolution of discrepancies. Assess and revise policies and procedures as needed to find ways to improve quality, timeliness, and efficiency of work. Be responsible for the acquisition, construction, maintenance, repair, and operating of real property facilities, and provide related management, engineering, and other support work. Specifically, this includes (a) acquisition, accountability, and disposal of real estate; (b) planning and programming of total requirements for the maintenance, repair, and construction of facilities including financial management of facility programs; (c) provision of basic utility services; (d) maintenance and repair of structures and associated equipment; (e) furnishing snow removal, pest control, fire prevention, and engineering services activities. Exercise authority in planning, directing, controlling and coordinating architectural or engineering activities. Direct total operations through subordinate civilian supervisory and non-supervisory personnel. Plan, schedule and assign work; establish and monitor internal controls; and ensure uniform application of regulations, policies, directives, and professional engineering practices. Consider a variety of elements in determining funds available, contour of land, soil condition, weather and its effect upon building material, new engineering concepts, USAF Guides, etc. Utilize program and planning documents in determining real property facility requirements for programmed units and activities within the installation. Accomplish long and short range planning for replacement of facilities or equipment including contingency operations for potential war or domestic emergency conditions. Oversee development and time phasing of operations and maintenance of real property facility and construction programs to ensure assimilation into the overall installation program. Be responsible for implementation of the "total programming" concept for maintenance, repair, and construction of facilities. Advise on and reprogram activities to meet changes in mission and/or objectives requiring Commanders decision on phasing of specific activities and/or coordination with other activities. Represent the Base Architect/Engineer at meetings and conferences with HQ ANG and intermediate command staff, Commanders and staff representatives of tenant organizations, Division and District Engineer representatives of the Corps of Engineers and Naval Facilities Engineering Command, metropolitan airports commission staff; FAA, Veterans Administration, highway department representatives; Federal, states, and city Environmental Protection Agency representatives. Coordinate on plans, exchange information, recommend policy or procedures and keep apprised of new architecture and engineering developments. Make decisions in line with prior ANG Base policy and planning, such as priority of new construction, acceptance of completed work, facility disposal, real estate acquisition, utilization, or disposal actions. Plan required organizational structures to establish the essential functional elements necessary to carry out architectural/engineering responsibilities most effectively and economically. Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. In order to qualify, you must meet the experience 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. To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as: Provides supervisory (less than 25%) and technical assistance to the Base Architect/Engineer in overseeing and managing the engineering shops and production control function. Provides technical support to all assigned sections. Provides guidance to these sections on standard and code requirements. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).

Education

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience above in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualifications requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted. 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)