Engineer (QA Section Chief)

• General Engineering; Architecture; Civil Engineering; Environmental Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Electrical Engineering
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• Direct staff in the preliminary review of plans and specifications to determine construction feasibility, logical scheduling, adequacy of detail, clarity of requirements and adequacy of quality assurance provisions.
• Serve as the Chief, QA and Technical Support Section responsible for providing technical support for all construction area and resident offices.
• Manage all projects assigned, referring to the Supervisor only those matters that impact projects outside her/his jurisdiction, requiring higher level intervention, policy formulation or matters likely to generate significant interest or controversy.
• Maintain close liaison with personnel in District segments and the using services to assure that procedures and policies satisfy the specific needs of these organizations.
• Direct and review the work of approximately 10 ( 2 Engineer GS-13; 3 Engineer GS-12; 2 Engineer GS-11; and 3 Engineering Technician GS-12 positions.)

Conditions of Employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Local travel (day trips to local offices) may be required.
• Must possess or be able to obtain and maintain a Certified Building Commissioning Professional (CBCP) certification within two years of acceptance of the position.
• Must possess or be able to obtain and maintain a LEED-AP certification within one year of acceptance of the position.
• This position requires the incumbent to obtain and maintain a valid, State-issued Motor Vehicle Drivers license.
• Subject to a one year supervisory probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements.
• Subject to a one year probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in 5 CFR Part 315.This position requires the incumbent to submit a Financial Disclosure Statement, OGE-450, upon entering the position and annually thereafter.

Qualifications

1. Professional registration or licensure - Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), 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) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
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 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.