GENERAL ENGINEER

US-Joint-Activities; Florida; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SouthCom in Miami, FL is seeking a General Engineer to support the Logistics Directorate. The incumbent will advise on engineering resources and coordinate across operations to ensure alignment with mission priorities.

Qualifying candidates must meet ABET-accredited degree requirements or equivalent experience and may qualify via professional registration, FE exam, or related credentials. U.S. citizenship is required.

Qualifications

• ABET-accredited engineering degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Eligibility pathways include Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT) or PE licensure, or FE examination as applicable.

Responsibilities

• Determine engineering programs' resource needs and allocate assets according to priority of missions.
• Coordinate engineering support across operational, humanitarian, and engagement programs to ensure alignment with command priorities and theater objectives.
• Provide consultations to command leadership regarding engineering implications of military operations, infrastructure posture, host-nation engagement, and strategic investment decisions.

Education

Engineering degree with ABET accreditation or equivalent

Strong knowledge of engineering sciences

Job description

About the Position:

The incumbent will serve as a General Engineer at the Logistics Directorate of SOUTHCOM in Miami, FL. Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. 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; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Basic Requirement for General Engineer must be met first:

Basic 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.

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 meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes 1). Determine engineering programs' resource needs and allocate assets according to priority of the organization's missions; 2). Coordinate engineering support across operational, humanitarian, and engagement programs to ensure proper alignment with command priorities and overarching theater objectives; and 3). Provide consultations to command leadership regarding engineering implications of military operations, infrastructure posture, host-nation engagement, and strategic investment decisions.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-13 or above).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.