Electrical Engineer

Department of Transportation; Fort Worth, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The U.S. Department of Transportation seeks an Electrical Engineer for Engineering Services. The role involves conducting site surveys and adapting standard engineering designs, and coordinating project scope and cost estimates in alignment with applicable standards.

Qualifications include a Professional Engineering degree (ABET-accredited) or equivalent, plus specialized experience at the FV-I level (GS-12) and the ability to coordinate engineering projects and deliverables.

Qualifications

• Professional Engineering degree per ABET standards or equivalent.
• FV-I level requires one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-H (GS-12).
• Specialized experience includes site surveys and coordinating project scope and cost estimates.
• Applicants must include examples of specialized experience in their work history.

Responsibilities

• Conduct site surveys and adapt standard engineering designs.
• Coordinate project scope and cost estimates for engineering projects.

Skills

Site surveys

Project scope development

Cost estimation

Education

Professional Engineering degree (PE) with ABET accreditation or equivalent

Job description

The incumbent for this position will serve as a Electrical Engineer for Engineering Services.

Basic Requirements:

Degree: Professional 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

Combination of education and experience. For additional information on qualification requirements, please visit the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website at:

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf

AND

To qualify for this position at the FV-I level, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-H (FG/GS-12). Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.

Specialized experience: Experience conducting site surveys and site adaptation of standard engineering designs, including developing and coordinating project scope, and cost estimate.

Applicants must include examples of specialized experience in their work history.

Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

Knowledge, Skill, and Ability (KSAs): As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.

In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA section, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability.

Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration.