Interdisciplinary

Duties

• Serves as a Project Team Leader and/or team member for multidisciplinary teams supporting master planning initiatives within and outside the District's Area of Responsibility.
• Develops and utilizes visual media, including sketches, renderings, photography, brochures, and presentation materials to support planning initiatives and stakeholder engagement.
• Provides technical consultation for military construction site development projects.
• Performs cost engineering and preliminary cost estimating for projects during advance planning stages prior to full scope development and design completion.
• Reviews cost estimates prepared by in-house staff, Architect-Engineer firms, and other agencies for accuracy and completeness.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position may require TDY 25% of the time.
• This position requires the incumbent to possess and maintain a valid State Driver's License.
• This position is designated Tier 3, Non-Critical Sensitive, Moderate Risk and requires the incumbent to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance Level as a condition of employment.

Qualifications

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD, Section 9905 to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and 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 .

Minimum Education Requirement:

Engineering: Bachelor's degree (or higher) in engineering. The program must: lead to a degree in a school with at least one program accredited by ABET. Degree must be documented on a transcript.

Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Community Planning: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included a major field of study or specific course requirements.

OPM General Schedule Qualification Standards -

Specialized Experience:

GS-11:

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 grade level performing journeyman-level work in master planning, site planning, or cost engineering for military or comparable facilities. Experience may include: participating in development of master planning documents such as facility requirements analyses, installation design guides, or area development plans; applying professional planning, architectural, or engineering principles to resolve conventional problems using established guidelines and precedents; preparing preliminary designs, cost estimates, or technical reports under general guidance; and coordinating with multidisciplinary teams to support planning initiatives.

GS-12:

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level serving as a technical specialist or project team leader for master planning activities supporting military installations. Experience may include: independently leading or executing master planning, architectural or civil engineering projects including Real Property Master Plans, Installation Design Guides, DD Form 1391 development, or facility programming; adapting or developing guidelines for unique or first-of-a-kind projects where existing guidance is inadequate; administering Architect-Engineer contracts including preparing scopes of work, government estimates, and technical evaluations; and resolving technical conflicts with contractors, installation engineers, or other stakeholders requiring professional judgment and persuasion.

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: .

Additional information

• This announcement uses the Certain Comp Service Positionsdirect hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• This position requires a 1 year probationary period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest.
• Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
• Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
• If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the information sheet.
• This is a Career Program (CP) 18 - Engineers & Scientists position.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• When you perform a Civilian Permanent Change of Station (PCS) with the government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit for more information.
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and an agency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest.
• Recruitment Incentive may be authorized.
• Relocation Incentive may be authorized.
• Advanced In-Hire may be authorized