General Engineer (Cost Engineer)

Smithsonian Institution; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

The Smithsonian Institution seeks an engineering professional in the Office of Planning, Design and Construction (OPDC) to support cost management, estimating, and project scope development for Smithsonian infrastructure.

Requirements include a bachelor's degree in engineering (ABET) or equivalent, plus licensure eligibility; one year of specialized experience at GS-13 level in cost management, forecasting, scheduling, and procurement strategies. Resume must not exceed two pages.

Qualifications

• ABET-accredited engineering degree or equivalent with calculus/engineering science coursework.
• Professional registration as EI/EIT or PE, or eligibility for licensure by state boards.
• Experience linking engineering concepts to construction project estimates and procurement.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams to develop project scope, schedules, and costs.
• Apply forecasting techniques and risk analysis to control project budgets.
• Implement cost management and procurement strategies for Smithsonian infrastructure projects.

Skills

Cost management

Estimating

Project scheduling

Forecasting

Risk analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. This position is located in the Office of Planning, Design and Construction (OPDC). The OPDC is responsible for the Smithsonian's physical infrastructure, which comprises over 700 buildings, other structures and leased spaces many which are designated as historic and all of which are visited by millions of people each year.

You must meet these Basic Education Requirements: (You must submit a copy of your transcript to show evidence of meeting this requirement in order to receive further consideration) 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 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 1 For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org. 2 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. 2 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 qualification requirement above.

Experience: You qualify for this position if you have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal Service. For this position, specialized experience is defined as experience in cost management and estimating; leading a cross-function team to develop project scope, schedules, and costs using forecasting, scheduling techniques and risk analysis; and experience using concepts and principles of the construction industry and procurement strategies.

Your resume must be no more than two (2) pages and should clearly demonstrate how your experience aligns with the responsibilities.