GENERAL ENGINEER

Duties

DUTY 1
Performs career-broadening assignments designed to enhance and develop leadership competencies and business skills in the civil engineer functional community.

DUTY 2
Performs career-broadening assignments involved in program development and evaluation.

DUTY 3
Carries out special projects and assignments designed specifically to meet the broadening intent of the position. Prepares special studies and various documents as required to meet unique requirements, projects, or taskers of the command; develops and presents oral presentations, leads and/or serves on steering committees or similar groups.

DUTY 4
Represents AFNWC/PI and serves as a member of internal and external governance boards/working groups such as the WGF Action Group and WGF Executive Steering Group that address priorities, opportunities, and challenges and produce cooperative solutions.

DUTY 5
Develops and provides expertise on developments within the Air Force Civil Engineer functional area and provides related consultant and advisor services to the Command. Mentors and develops junior engineers within AFNWC/PI.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Mobility is a condition of employment; employees must sign an Air Force-wide mobility agreement.
• Employee must be able to obtain and maintain a TOP SECRET/SCI (Special Sensitive) Eligible security clearance as a condition of employment.
• This position has been identified as a designated position under the AF Drug Testing Plan. Incumbent of this position is subject to the possibility of random drug testing.
• If authorized, PCS will be paid IAW JTR and AF Regulations. You may be subject to completing/signing a CONUS agreement. More information on PCS requirements, may be found at: https://afciviliancareers.com/pdf/Civilian_PCS_Handbook.pdf
• PCS cost will be paid IAW Career Broadening Policy under this agreement.
• Career Broadening positions are managed by AFPC/DPZ and are centrally funded.
• Positions are established specifically to provide developmental experience designed to broaden the skills and/or enhance the leadership perspective of a high-potential, mid-level manager.
• Career Broadening also provides training and developmental opportunities at various organizational levels.
• These assignments offer the qualified candidate a unique assignment in that the candidates brings certain experience to the assignment while gaining new experiences in a different work environment
• TEMPORARY PROMOTION: If the position is filled as a temporary promotion, upon completion of the career broadening assignment, the temporary promotion may lead to permanent promotion without further competition
• This is a formal Civil Engineer career broadening position; assignment duration is limited to 36 months.
• Employee may be required to travel TDY to perform assigned duties on commercial or military aircraft.
• Employee may be required to work other than normal duty hours to provide direct support to leadership, conferences, or special initiatives or programs related to the AFNWC mission.
• Employee must maintain current certifications
• Disclosure of Political Appointments

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,

BASIC REQUIREMENT OR INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT:
Basic 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:

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

In 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 and mastery of professional engineering principles, theories, procedures, and applications and skill in using those principles and applications to meet mission requirements.

2. Knowledge and mastery of a broad range of methods, techniques, and processes used in Air Force Civil Engineering and the ability to integrate asset management, project/program management, planning, and acquisition in the following fields: Real Estate, Environmental, Installation Management/Planning, Facilities Operations, or Engineering/Architecture.

3. Knowledge of the AF Corporate Structure, Federal Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System and acquisition processes and contracting provisions.

4. Skill in evaluating state-of-the-art technologies and incorporating these into the planning or design, budgeting, programming, life cycle, operation, maintenance, repair, upgrade, and cost estimates of installations natural and 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, to negotiate complex issues and maintain good working relations.

Education

IF USING EDUCATION TO QUALIFY: If position has a positive degree requirement or education forms the basis for qualifications, you MUST submit transcriptswith 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 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 in the Civil Engineer 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 Kirtland AFB, NM.

Additional 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 is Authorized

Direct Deposit: All federal employees are required to have direct deposit.

Incentives: Recruitment and/or retention incentives may not be used.

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 .

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