Supervisory General Engineer (Technical Director)

This vacancy is for a GS-0801-14, Supervisory General Engineer (Technical Director) located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, CIVIL ENGINEERING UNIT MIAMI-PRODUCT LINE in MIAMI, Florida.

Qualifications:

Basic Requirements: This position has a positive Education Requirement in addition to at least one year of Specialized Experience or substitution of education for experience or combination (if applicable) in order to be found minimally qualified. Transcripts must be submitted with your application package. You MUST meet the following requirements:

EDUCATION:

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.)

AND

To qualify at the GS-14 grade level, your resume must demonstrate at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 grade level in the federal or private sector. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. Examples of specialized experience include performing the following types of tasks on a regular basis.

NOTE: All experience statements (i.e., duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire) copied from this announcement and pasted into your resume will not be considered as a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.

Specialized experience may include the following:

• Managing large scale projects and resources, including monitoring and inspecting costs, design and contractor performance;
• Analyzing and evaluating the engineering aspects of complex, technologically advanced programs;
• Preparing, justifying and/or administering the budget for program areas and administering, monitoring expenditures to ensure cost-effective support of programs and policies;
• Providing supervision or directing professional, technical, and administrative staff; and Identifying original and/or innovative solutions to technical or programmatic problems by applying knowledge of a wide range of engineering principles, practices and techniques.
• Establish methods and procedures to substantially reduce project costs.

National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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.

Responsibilities:

You will serve as a Supervisory General Engineer (Technical Director) and be responsible for managing the design and construction portions of the civil engineering program in conformance with program objectives and Coast Guard policy.

Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include:

• Working closely with the Commanding Officer (CO), Executive Officer (XO), and District Planning Officers to develop a prioritized program of maintenance and repair and environmental projects that address the customer's highest priorities first and that is aligned with available funding.
• Directing subordinates and participates on a multi-disciplinary team performing Facility Condition Assessments and project inspections at CG facilities that involve identifications of all life/safety deficiencies and condition assessment of critical architectural, civil, structural, mechanical and electrical components
• Managing the design portion of the civil engineering program in conformance with program objectives and CG policy.
• Function as first line supervisor for up to three GS-13 Supervisory Section Chiefs and two or more military personnel typically in the O-2 - O-4 grade. Provides second level supervision for approximately 20 - 30 full time civilian and military personnel encompassing GS-09 though GS-12 and CWO through O-3 billets.

Salary : $133,953