Fire Protection Engineer - Direct Hire Authority

Washington Headquarters Services; Fairfield (PA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Raven Rock Mountain Complex is seeking a Senior Fire Protection Engineer to execute traditional operations in support of the installation and tenants, including Army, Navy, Air Force, USMC, Joint Staff, and the Secretary of War. The role provides specialized advice to plan, analyze, design, and develop facility repair, improvement, and upgrade construction projects.

Mission essential employee may be required to report for duty during weather closures or emergencies.

Qualifications

• ABET-accredited engineering degree required.
• Professional registration (EI/EIT or PE) preferred or licensure in state.

Responsibilities

• Apply fire protection engineering principles to complex design work.
• Plan, analyze, design, and develop facility repair, improvement, upgrades for RRMC.
• Provide specialized advice to installation and tenants (Army, Navy, Air Force, USMC, Joint Staff).

Skills

Fire protection

NFPA standards

Code compliance

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Professional registration (EI/EIT or PE)

Job description

This position serves as the Senior Fire Protection Engineer at Raven Rock Mountain Complex (RRMC), responsible for execution of traditional operations in support of installation and tenants, including Army, Navy, Air Force, USMC, Joint Staff, and the Secretary of War. As a Fire Protection Engineer, the position provides specialized advice and expertise to plan, analyze, design, and develop facility repair, improvement, and upgrade construction projects.

MISSION ESSENTIAL EMPLOYEE

Mission essential employees may be required to report for, or remain at, work in dismissal or closure situations due to adverse weather conditions, natural disasters, or other emergency situations ( e.g., building closure due to power outage) causing disruptions of government operations, and are required to maintain contact with their supervisor during any dismissal or closure situation unless specifically excused by their supervisor. The Engineering occupation has an education requirement which applies to all positions. Transcripts must be submitted at time of application to validate that the education requirement has been met.

BASIC REQUIREMENT 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);
   • (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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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 Requirement listed above, applicants must also meet the following specialized experience: You may qualify at the GS-13 level, if you fulfill the following qualification requirement: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service (experience may have been gained in the private sector) that demonstrates your experience: Applying fire protection engineering principles and national codes (such as NFPA, UFC, and IBC) to perform complex design work and con