GENERAL ENGINEER

Summary

Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below to view Eligibilities being considered and other IMPORTANT information. The primary purpose of this position is to provide a developmental experience designated to broaden the skills and/or enhance the leadership perspective of an identified high potential manager/executive candidate; it is not a continuing position and assignment duration is NTE 36 months.

Duties

Duty 1: Performs Career Broadening assignments designed to enhance and develop leadership competencies and business skills in the civil engineer functional community. Develops, publishes, and evaluates energy facility policies for achieving and reporting energy goals to comply with the Department of Air Force Installation Energy Strategic Plan. Develops and tracks metrics to monitor energy goals and measure policy impacts on Air Force operations and readiness. Leadership assignments involve planning, and direction, of a variety of integrated energy programs. Duty 2: Provides budget oversight and develops requirements to include Program Objective Memorandum (POM) submission, annual authorizations, and budget execution as it pertains to energy facilities engineering policy. Incumbent is responsible and accountable to the DAS (SAF/IEE) for developing analytical frameworks and providing oversight to support Air Force energy goals; executing DoW energy policies and mandates; and interfacing with the combatant commands (COCOMs), Defense Agencies (Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)/Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) and other Federal Agencies, providing the strategic focus and innovative leadership in the development, refinement and integration and implementation of the Air Force energy strategy across the Air Force. Duty 3: Servies as an advisor to the DAS (SAF/IEE) on Installations energy policy and program requirement details and status of energy opportunities/impediments as they develop. Career broadening assignments will enhance leading change skills and core competencies to include conducting comprehensive assessments and evaluation of program goals and objectives which provide the basis for long range planning to enhance the organizations' management capabilities. Responsible for providing significant and innovative recommendations for advancing programs. Duty 4: Serves as a member of various internal and external boards to include cross service, DoW, Secretariat, Air Staff, and other federal agencies that address the full spectrum of facility energy that address opportunities, challenges and produce cooperative solutions that support Air Force energy goals and objectives. Maintains liaison with professional associations and federal agencies e.g. Department of Energy, General Services Administration, etc. Participates in other associated meetings, seminars and conferences sponsored by the Air Force, Secretariat, OSD, other federal agencies and national/international energy programs. Reviews proposed legislation to assess potential impacts on the Department of Air Force energy programs and initiatives. Duty 5: Attends meetings, seminars, and workshops to remain proficient on developments within the energy field. Maintains currency with advancements in energy technologies, industry energy practices, and academia. Establishes, develops, and maintains effective working relationships with organizations that interface with the SAF/IEE Installation Energy office. Performance standards: (1) Interactions with internal and external officials and/or customers are usually diplomatic, convincing, professional, and promote effective working relationships. (2) Routinely staff contemporaries and leadership are advised of developments/changes in the energy facilities engineering policy area. Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, Professional and Scientific positions. BASIC REQUIREMENT: 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 professionalIn addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. FEDERAL TIME-IN-GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT FOR GENERAL SCHEDULE (GS) POSITIONS: Applicants must have served at least 52 weeks at the GS-13 or higher grade (or equivalent in an alternate pay system) within the Federal Civil Service to be considered for referral. TIG applies if you are in a current GS position or held a GS position within the previous 52 weeks. 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: 1. Knowledge of Air Force energy management concepts, policies, and practices within Air Force business processes and the skill in using those concepts, policies, and business processes. 2. Knowledge of multidisciplinary professional energy engineering concepts, principles, practices and standards, methods, techniques, materials, and equipment. 3. Knowledge of the Air Force Corporate Structure, Federal Planning, Programming and Budgeting System, and contracting provisions. 4. Skill in evaluating state-of-the-art scientific and engineering technologies and incorporating them into the planning, design, operation, maintenance, repair, and upgrade of installations' natural/built infrastructure. 5. Ability to gather, assemble, and analyze facts, draw conclusions, conduct analysis, devise recommended solutions, and package the entire process in briefings, papers, or reports suitable for top management use and decision-making. 6. Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, negotiate complex issues, and maintain good working relations. PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week. VOLUNTEER WORK EXPERIENCE: Refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (i.e., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student and social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge and skills that can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

IF USING EDUCATION TO QUALIFY: If position has a positive degree requirement or education forms the basis for qualifications, you MUST submit transcripts with the application. Official transcripts are not required at the time of application; however, if position has a positive degree requirement, qualifying based on education alone or in combination with experience, transcripts must be verified prior to appointment. An accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education must accredit education. Click here to check accreditation. FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Eligible applicants: Air Force Employee (Current Permanent Competitive Service Career/Career-Conditional Employee and Current Permanent AF DCIPS Employees with Reinstatement Rights to the Competitive Service) Area of Consideration is limited to current permanent internal Air Force employees serving in the Civil Engineer Civil Career Field. All other candidates will be outside the area of consideration. This assignment is temporary and limited in duration to 36 months. This vacancy announcement is for one formal career broadening opportunity in the Civil Engineer Career Field. The organizational location of this position is Pentagon, Washington DC. An endorsement letter must be submitted with your career broadening resume in order to be eligible for the position. How You Will Be Evaluated

Your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine your eligibility, qualifications, and quality ranking for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment. Your responses to the questionnaire may be compared to the documents you submit. The documents you submit must support your responses to the online questionnaire. If your application contradicts or does not support your questionnaire responses, you will receive a rating of "not qualified" or "insufficient information" and you will not receive further consideration for this job. Applicants who disqualify themselves will not be evaluated further. APPRAISALS/AWARDS: Hiring Managers use objective methods and consider previous performance appraisals and awards in the selection process. Current Federal Civilian employees should list any relevant performance related rating and/or awards in your resume. Other Information

PCS restrictions: An employee selected to make a PCS to a Career Broadening assignment is restricted from making a second PCS for 12 months Defense National Relocation Program may or may not authorized. Direct Deposit: All federal employees are required to have direct deposit. Incentives: Recruitment and/or retention incentives be used. Disabled veteran leave is available to a Federal employee hired on/after 5 Nov 2016, who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rating of 30% or more. For more information, click here. If you have questions regarding this announcement and have hearing or speech difficulties click here.