Industrial Engineer

DLA Careers; New Cumberland (Cumberland County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

DLA Careers invites an Industrial Engineer to be the technical authority for modernization projects. You will resolve complex engineering conflicts and serve as a specialist consultant to DLA Distribution, guiding modernization efforts.

You will lead cross-functional teams to deliver new technologies and digital capabilities, and regularly brief senior leadership on project progress. You will prepare detailed specs and drawings to solicit contractor proposals for large-scale systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering; ABET accreditation preferred.
• Experience or registration as EI/EIT/PE is valuable.

Responsibilities

• Serves as technical authority and project integrator for modernization initiatives.
• Analyzes and resolves deep-seated, network-wide engineering conflicts.
• Serves as technical consultant and specialist to DLA Distribution on modernization.
• Leads cross-functional teams to deliver new technologies or digital capabilities.
• Regularly briefs senior leadership on project progress using standard DLA protocols.
• Develops detailed specifications, drawings, and engineering documents for contractor proposals.

Skills

Analytical techniques

Engineering proposals

Standards authoring

Project lifecycle mgmt

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Professional registration (EI/EIT/PE)

Job description

Summary

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Summary

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Duties

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• Serves the technical authority and project integrator for modernization initiatives.
• Analyzes and resolves deep-seated, network-wide engineering and modernization conflicts.
• Serves as technical consultant and specialist to DLA Distribution concerning all aspects of industrial engineering and modernization.
• Leads cross-functional teams to deliver initiatives that introduce new technologies or digital capabilities.
• Regularly reviews project progress and briefs senior leadership using standard DLA project protocols.
• Develops detailed specifications, drawings, and other engineering documents used to solicit contractor proposals for highly complex, large-scale systems.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Tour of Duty: Set Schedule
• Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive with Secret Access
• Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
• Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
• Bargaining Unit Status: No
• Selectees are required to have a REAL ID or other acceptable identification documents to access certain federal facilities. See https://www.tsa.gov/real-id for more information.
• Pre-Employment Physical: Required

Qualifications

To qualify for an Industrial Engineer, your resume and supporting documentation must support:

• Basic Requirement: A bachelor's degree or higher in professional engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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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Education

A 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 professional 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), 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) 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 in engineering that included the courses specified in the Basic Requirements above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in the Basic Requirements above.
• 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).

AND

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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

• Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. In addition to meeting the Basic Requirement above, to qualify for the GS-13 grade level, specialized experience must be at the GS-12 grade level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut‑off/closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes:
• Applying analytical and statistical techniques to optimize operations and generate recommendations
• Evaluating complex engineering and business proposals
• Authoring new standards that site level engineers follow
• Managing project lifecycles to allow for continuous feedback and risk mitigation

Physical Demands:

This position involves travel throughout depot facilities including warehouse areas and construction sites at multiple depots throughout the world. Travel is required up to 50%of the time. Performance of duties will include activities such as walking on uneven and/or unimproved surfaces, kneeling, bending, stooping, climbing vertical ladders, and standing on hard surfaces for long periods of time. Requirements also include the occasional lifting, moving, carrying and loading of items weighing up to 40 lbs.

Work Environment:

Most work is performed in an office setting while at home station. When TDY, the requirements of the position include regular/reoccurring exposure to conditions in industrial storage and distribution facilities, as well as construction sites while on travel. Protective gear such as steel-toed shoes, safety glasses, hearing protection, and fall protection are required when on travel and working in the various storage and distribution facilities around the globe.

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

Additional information

As required by 5 C.F.R.

• 302.106, DLA will provide Section 508 conformant ICT to employees with disabilities. All ICT interfaces with the public related to vacancy announcements and career transition opportunities must conform to the applicable requirements in the current ICT Standards and Guidelines (36 C.F.R.
• 1194).

For Important General Applicant Information and Definitions go to: http://www.dla.mil/portals/104/documents/careers/GenAppInfoDef.pdf

Reemployed Annuitants:

This position does not meet criteria for appointment of Reemployed Annuitants. The DoD criteria for hiring Reemployed Annuitants can be found at: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/140025_vol300.PDF

Information for Veterans

Information for Veterans is available at: https://www.dla.mil/Careers/Programs/. As of 23 December 2016, Military retirees seeking to enter federal service in the Department of Defense now require a waiver if they would be appointed within 180 days following their official date of retirement.

Drug-Free Workplace Policy

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is committed to maintaining a safe, drug‑free workplace. All DLA employees are required to refrain from illegal drug use on and off duty. DLA conducts pre‑employment, reasonable suspicion, post‑accident, and random drug testing. Applicants tentatively selected for employment in testing designated positions will undergo a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Refusal to undergo testing or testing positive for illegal drugs will result in withdrawal of the tentative job offer and a six‑month denial of employment with DLA from the date of the drug test. Employees in drug testing designated positions are subject to random drug testing. A negative drug test result must be received by HR within 30 calendar days after the EOD (i.e., start date). The selectee's inability successfully pass; or refusal to conduct the test may result in: 1) the tentative or FJO being withdrawn during the recruitment process; or 2) subsequently being removed from Federal service for failure to meet a condition of employment. You may be required to sign a "Drug Test Statement of Understanding" if you are selected for this position.

The DLA drug testing panel tests for the following substances: marijuana, cocaine, opiates, heroin, phencyclidine, amphetamines, methamphetamines, fentanyl, norfentanyl, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), and opioids.

ADVISORY: Use of cannabidiol (CBD) products may result in a positive drug test for marijuana. DLA employees are subject to Federal law and under Federal law, Marijuana is illegal

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