GENERAL ENGINEER

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 broaden the skills, enhance and develop the executive career broadener's leadership competencies, technical occupational competencies, and business skills while contributing support to the mission and function of the organization and processes of the AF Civil Engineering Civilian Career Enhancement Program.

Major 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: Provides oversight to ensure effective policy for the AF Civil Engineer during the development of facility energy programs and throughout the management of the assigned programs. DUTY 3: Establishes, interprets, and implements policies, guidance, and procedures to provide oversight and management of installation facility operation and energy, as well as Civil Engineer Operations functions. DUTY 4: Performs career-broadening assignments involved with representing the concerns of the Air Force at senior strategic meetings and conferences; prepares staff studies, bullet background papers, and various documents to meet special needs; develop and gives oral presentations; leads and/or serves on steering committees.

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, Professional and Scientific Positions. 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: 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. 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. 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. 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.) Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise. 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: Professional knowledge of a broad range of program management (comprehensive planning, asset management, mechanical, civil, electrical, and environmental) and engineering concepts, principles, and practices and knowledge of Air Force Civil Engineering goals and objectives. Extensive knowledge of problem-solving methods, practices, and techniques-including Business Process Reengineering and the Air Force Service Development and Delivery Process-to determine viable approaches and communicate new concepts, goals, and objectives. Ability to recognize, analyze, and evaluate subordinate organization programs to assess accomplishment of USAF requirements, utilizing change management approaches, project lifecycle phases, and performance metrics to develop timely and economical solutions. Ability to research and interpret congressional language, public laws, and DoW and federal agency regulations and policies to successfully incorporate them into Air Force policy and guidance. Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, to establish and maintain productive working relationships, resolve conflicts, build consensus, and influence diverse organizations to gain support for program goals.