Environmental Engineer (Tribal Utility Consultant)

US Indian Health Service; Phoenix (AZ); Vor Ort; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

IHS Sanitation Facilities Construction is seeking engineers to support sanitation projects in collaboration with American Indian Tribes. The role involves applying engineering principles to water, wastewater, and solid waste facilities, with opportunities for professional growth and field impact.

Qualified candidates will have an engineering degree and relevant experience or Ph.D. credentials, with a focus on practical application and operational support for facility designs.

Qualifikationen

• At least 1 year of specialized experience in water, sewer, and solid waste systems.
• Graduate education toward a Ph.D. may substitute for experience per the announcement.
• Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree may qualify in lieu of combined experience.
• Combination of experience and education meeting 100% of requirements.

Aufgaben

• Provide technical assistance and training to water, sewer, and solid waste system operators and managers.
• Offer operational advice and support for sanitation facilities.
• Review sanitation facility designs and provide recommendations on operational features.

Kenntnisse

Technical training

Sanitation systems

Design review

Ausbildung

Engineering degree

Jobbeschreibung

Want to have positive impact working in diverse environments? Join us at IHS Sanitation Facilities Construction! We collaborate with American Indian Tribes to plan, design, and construct water, wastewater, and solid waste facilities. Visit www.ihs.gov/dsfc or email [e-mail]. Position is eligible for the IHS Student Loan Repayment Program with selection based on IHS priorities and available funds.

A REAL ID will be required beginning May 7, 2025, in accordance with 6 C.F.R. 37.5 (2021).

To qualify for this position, your resume must state sufficient experience and/or education, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are applying.

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; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week.

BASIC REQUIREMENT(S)

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
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 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.
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 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.)

In addition, to the Basic Requirements, you must also meet the Minimum Qualifications stated below.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Your resume must demonstrate at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the Federal service obtained in either the private or public sector performing the following type of work and/or tasks: Experience in providing technical assistance and training to water, sewer, and sold waste system operators and managers; provides operational advice and support related to sanitation facilities; reviews sanitation facilities designs (plans and specifications) and provides recommendations regarding operational features.OR 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree,OR Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degreeOR A combination of specialized experience and education that meets 100% of the qualification requirements for this position

You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement.