Electrical Engineer, GS-0850-13 (31709)

US Army Corps of Engineers; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

US Army Corps of Engineers in Omaha, NE seeks a senior electrical engineer to lead design and review across multiple mission areas including MILCON, IIS, and Civil Works. The role requires an ABET-accredited engineering degree and PE licensure or EI/EIT eligibility, with oversight of complex projects and mentoring of staff.

Responsibilities include acting as an authoritative technical lead, coordinating with cross-disciplinary teams, and delivering high-quality engineering analyses and reports

Qualifications

• ABET-accredited bachelor’s degree in engineering as required by the program
• Professional registration as PE or EI/EIT eligibility or licensure
• Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or equivalent
• Combination of education and experience with strong engineering foundations
• Broad knowledge of electrical engineering principles and practice

Responsibilities

• Act as the Division subject matter expert and senior designer for electrical engineering projects
• Lead technical teams across MILCON, IIS, Civil Works, and environmental programs
• Prepare and review investigations, plans, specifications, and design analyses
• Coordinate with other disciplines to ensure compatibility and interoperability of systems
• Provide mentoring and oversight to junior staff and ensure quality of deliverables

Skills

Electrical engineering

Technical leadership

Design review

Education

ABET-accredited degree

PE licensure / EI/EIT

Job description

Announcement Type

Direct-Hire Authority (DHA)

Position Type

Permanent

USACE Organization

Northwestern Division (NWD) - Omaha District

Locations (City, State)

Omaha, NE

Position Overview/Duties

Summary of Responsibilities: This position is a senior electrical engineering position in the Electrical Engineering Section, which is located in the Design Branch, Engineering Division, Omaha District (NWO), which performs electrical engineering and cyber/ICT design and review work for Military, Civil Works, and IIS customers.

Specific Duties

• Serves as an Engineering Division subject matter expert, technical leader, and senior designer in incumbents’ discipline/functional area. Position may support any USACE mission to include MILCON, IIS, CIVIL WORKS, and ENVIRONMENTAL/HTRW.
• Serves as an authoritative source for the district pertaining to state-of-practice in their discipline/functional area and serves as a principal advisor to the Section, Branch Chief and Division Chief. Participates at public, regional and national level meetings, committees, professional conferences, and workshops. Represents the District at such engagements. Meets with representatives from higher authority, consultants, or others, and provides technical data, opinions, and recommendations.
• Independently prepares and reviews investigations, studies, plans, specifications, design analysis and other engineering reports, occasionally dealing with factors of an undetermined or unprecedented nature, to ensure technical sufficiency, accuracy, economy, and compliance with given instructions, design standards and good engineering practice. Coordinates efforts with those in other specialties to ensure compatibility and interoperability of systems.
• Serves a technical lead directing and coordinating product delivery teams (PDTs)/technical team to develop and execute all phases and aspects of assigned work. Ensures quality of engineering deliverables (AE or in-house), providing team guidance, reviewing work, and informing the supervisor of employees’ performance.
• Provides high level technical analyses, review, and mentoring to less experienced staff on projects and systems that involve many complex features.
• Maintains and promotes technical advances and methodologies within area of specialization providing assistance, advice, review, and technology and methodology transfer through the use of presentations, mentoring, guide specification writing and/or participation in activities such as participating on USACE guidance manual update teams.
• Consults on matters of specialization with other technical disciplines within the district, across the USACE enterprise, and/or with external agencies and organizations. Serves on interregional technical teams, Agency Technical Review Teams (ATR), quality assurance (QA) and other review teams. Coordinates technical needs and capabilities with other districts, other divisions and other agencies.

Other Conditions And Requirements

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. Veterans' preference does not apply to this announcement.

WHO MAY APPLY

US Citizens.

Minimum Education Requirement

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

• 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), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieve 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) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in 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 position. The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.

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

Minimum Experience Requirement

Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-12).

SELECTIVE PLACEMENT FACTOR

The incumbent of this position must be a registered professional in accordance with the requirement in ER 690-1-958.

Other Requirements, Conditions Of Employment And Information

• All positions require the applicant to be a citizen of the United States.
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, are required to register for Selective Service prior to appointment.
• Direct deposit of pay is required.
• A trial or probationary period may be required.
• If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements: Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education ( https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/higher-education-laws-and-policy/college-accreditation ).
• 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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/ .
• This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 15% of the time.
• This position requires that the incumbent possess or obtain and maintai n a valid state Driver's License in one of the 50 U.S. states or possessions to operate vehicles.
• This position requires the following training/certifications prior to employment or within a specified period of time after appointment:
• Must possess and maintain a Professional Engineer (PE) license.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy: The United States government does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service or other non-merit factor

To learn more, please visit the Office of Equal Opportunity (https://www.eeoc.gov/federal-sector/federal-employees-job-applicants).

Qualifications - Candidates will be evaluated in accordance with OPM General Schedule (GS) Qualification Standards or Federal Wage System (FWS) Qualifications and Job Elements

GS Standards: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/

Reasonable Accommodation

Reasonable accommodation is available to qualified employees with disabilities. You can request a reasonable accommodation at any time during the application process, hiring process or while on the job. Requests are evaluated on a case-by-case basis.