General Engineer

US Indian Health Service; Bemidji (MN); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The US Indian Health Service in Bemidji Area seeks an engineer to support operation and repair as well as construction of health care facilities. Work spans facilities in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, including tribal health delivery programs.

The position requires documentation of engineering training and compliance with basic requirements; duties include planning, reviewing plans, site visits, and ensuring projects meet specifications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET-accredited program or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Solid understanding of engineering principles and their application to construction projects.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing schematic layouts, space utilization, and work flow planning for projects.
• Contribute to project plans and technical specifications for construction.
• Visit construction sites regularly to ensure work conforms to plans and specifications.

Skills

Schematic layouts

Space utilization

Workflow planning

Project plans

Specifications

Education

ABET-accredited engineering program

Engineering fundamentals courses

Job description

This position provides engineering support to assist with the operation and repair as well as construction of health care facilities in the Bemidji Area, which include comprehensive health delivery programs operated by tribal governments in the States of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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)

Individual Occupational Requirements

• 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.
• 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: Assisting in the development of schematic layouts, space utilization, work flow planning, project plans and specifications. Experience in anticipating and taking positive action on project related problems to avoid serious consequences relating to safety, funding and project completion. Visiting construction projects regularly to assure that construction conform to the plans and specifications.

Selective Factor

Applicant must show proof of registration as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.

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