Electrical Engineer

Transmission & Distribution World; Omaha, Northern (NE, KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Transmission & Distribution World seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer specializing in electromagnetic effects, EMP protection, acoustics, sensors, photonics, and technical security to support DoD and federal infrastructure protection programs.

You will lead curriculum development, act as SME on security engineering criteria, and deliver training globally to DoD and Federal Agency personnel, ensuring content remains aligned with latest standards and technologies.

Qualifications

• Basic Requirement for Engineer: Bachelor’s degree in engineering with ABET accreditation or equivalent, including core engineering science courses.
• Combination of Education and Experience acceptable with documented background in engineering fundamentals and practical application.
• Professional registration or licensure (Engineer Intern, EIT, or PE) or passing FE exam required for some paths.
• Specialized experience includes developing electromagnetic protection methods, setting regulatory requirements, and creating training curricula.

Responsibilities

• Serve as SME on committees updating security engineering design/ construction criteria for military infrastructure and critical assets.
• Develop security engineering criteria focusing on protecting people, equipment and infrastructure from EMP, RF, TEMPEST and other electromagnetic threats.
• Define design techniques for materials in hostile electromagnetic environments and retrofit techniques for new and revised criteria.
• Represent USACE on teams updating regulations for USACE, DA, DoW, or other Federal Agencies.
• Lead instructors and deliver training to DoW and Federal Agency staff worldwide; develop curricula for electromagnetic and acoustic transmission protection.

Skills

Electromagnetic effects

EMP protection

Acoustics

Sensors

Photonics

Technical security

Threat assessment

Critical infrastructure protection

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Professional registration or licensure (PE/EIT)

60 semester hours in physics/engineering science

Job description

Summary

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: This position serves as Senior Electrical Engineering expert specializing in electromagnetic effects, EMP protection, acoustics, sensors, photonics, technical security, threat assessment, and critical infrastructure protection.

Duties

As the technical expert in the field of electrical engineering, you will:

Serve as a subject matter expert on committees developing and updating security engineering design/construction criteria for military infrastructure and critical assets.

Develop security engineering criteria for DA, DoW, and Federal Agencies focusing on protecting people, equipment, and infrastructure from EMP, RF, TEMPEST, and other electromagnetic/physical threats.

Define design and construction techniques for materials in hostile electromagnetic environments, critical infrastructure, and intelligence protection and identify and incorporate innovative retrofit techniques into new and revised criteria.

Act as the USACE engineer representative on teams assigned to develop new or update existing regulations for USACE, DA, DoW, or other Federal Agency(s).

Serve as a Team Leader for instructors, ensuring class content is current with the latest criteria and technologies, and deliver training to diverse DoW and Federal Agency staff globally.

Develop and update curriculum and training modules for electromagnetic and acoustic transmission protection, teaching specialized classes to DoW and Federal Agency personnel worldwide.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and expereince 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 in this document. Basic Requirement for Engineer: A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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), 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. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1) Developing design and construction methods for electromagnetic protection, critical infrastructure, and intelligence protection and facility retrofits; 2) Establishing engineering and regulatory requirements for electromagnetic and acoustic transmission protection; and, 3) Developing and updating related training curricula. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-13). Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.