Environmental Engineer (Tribal Utility Consultant)

AISES; Warm Springs (OR); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

AISES is seeking an engineer to collaborate with American Indian Tribes to improve water, wastewater, and solid waste facilities. The role involves direct operation and maintenance services for Tribes and tribal utilities, site visits to assess conditions, and developing planning proposals and designs with technical staff.

You will provide training and technical assistance on sanitation facilities and ensure compliance with the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, drawing on

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from ABET-accredited program.
• Professional registration or licensure (EI/EIT/PE) is acceptable.
• Experience providing technical assistance to water/sewer systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with American Indian Tribes to improve water, wastewater, and solid waste facilities.
• Provide direct operation and maintenance services to Tribes and tribal utilities.
• Perform site visits to assess system conditions and hydraulics.
• Prepare planning proposals, feasibility studies, and designs.
• Provide training and technical assistance on sanitation facilities and compliance with water acts.

Skills

Engineering

Technical training

Water/wastewater ops

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Professional licensure (EI/EIT/PE)

Job description

The incumbent will be responsible for collaborating with American Indian Tribes to increase and maintain access to water, wastewater, and solid waste facilities by:

Providing direct operation and maintenance services to the Tribes and tribal Utilities.
Perform site visits to obtain condition of systems, location of mains, determination of local water pressures and plumbing layouts.
Prepare and review planning proposals, feasibility studies and engineering designs developed by technical staff
Provide training and technical assistance directly to the Tribes on procedures for sanitation facilities, operator certification and compliance with the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act..

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.
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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:

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.
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.
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 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 degree
OR A combination of specialized experience and education that meets 100% of the qualification requirements for this position

Time In Grade

Federal employees in the competitive service are also subject to the Time‑In‑Grade Requirements: Merit Promotion (status) candidates must have completed one year of service at the next lower grade level. Time‑In‑Grade provisions do not apply under the Excepted Service Examining Plan (ESEP).