INTERDISCIPLINARY GENERAL ENGINEERING

Air National Guard Units

Portland (OR)

On-site

USD 96,000 - 125,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

The Air National Guard Units in Portland, OR, seeks an Interdisciplinary General Engineer (GS-0801-12) to supervise and provide technical guidance for the Civil Engineering Squadron. Responsibilities include coordinating architectural/engineering tasks, ensuring compliance with standards, and supporting readiness missions for state operations.

The position emphasizes leadership of subordinates, planning of schedules, and collaboration with HQ ANG, other agencies, and tenant organizations.

Qualifications

Must have ABET‑accredited engineering training with relevant fundamentals.
Registration or licensure as an engineer is required or strongly preferred.
Strong planning, leadership, and policy guidance capabilities are essential.

Responsibilities

Supervise subordinates (less than 25%) and provide technical assistance.
Oversee engineering shops, production control, and project schedules.
Guide staff on codes, standards, and policy implementation.
Plan and coordinate with base leadership and customer organizations.
Prepare performance reports and ensure timely, quality results.

Skills

Supervisory ability

Technical guidance

Engineering knowledge

Project coordination

Education

ABET-accredited engineering program

Professional Engineer licensure

FE exam or EIT

Engineering fundamentals coursework (statics, dynamics)

Job description

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 5 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This National Guard position is for a INTERDISCIPLINARY GENERAL ENGINEERING, T5904800 and is part of the Oregon Air National Guard 142nd Wing, National Guard.

Key Responsibilities

As a INTERDISCIPLINARY GENERAL ENGINEERING, GS-0801-12, this position is located Civil Engineering Squadron at an Air National Guard Wing. Purpose: The purpose of this position is to Provides supervisory (less than 25%) and technical assistance to the Base Architect/Engineer in overseeing and managing the engineering shops and production control function. Provides technical support to all assigned sections.

Provides guidance to these sections on standard and code requirements. Develops engineered solutions to technical problems, which are incapable of being resolved by subordinates. Typical problems require the need to perform extensive mathematical and technical calculations in engineering to include civil, mechanical, electrical, or general engineering as well as architecture. The incumbent provides subordinate guidance and team leadership to Dual Status and Title 5 employees.

Incumbent performs planning development necessary to accomplish architecture and engineering functions for programs essential to state Air National Guard daily operations, training, and readiness missions. Fosters an environment conducive to teaming among service providers and customers to meet state Air National Guard requirements 1. Plans and schedules work in a manner that promotes a smooth flow and even distribution.

Coordinates plans and schedules with other organization managers and customers as appropriate. Identifies need for changes in priorities and takes action to implement such changes. Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts short-term priorities, and prepares schedules.

Assigns work to subordinate employees based on organization priorities and consideration of difficulty and requirements of assignments such that the experience, training, and abilities of staff are effectively utilized to meet organization and customer needs. Balances workload and provides advice, guidance, and direction on a wide range of policy, investigative, inspection/ exercise, strategic planning, and administrative issues.

Structures assignments to create effective and economical positions. Coordinates with other organization managers and customers as appropriate. Reviews organization mission, functions, and manning. Identifies requirements and initiates requests for additional resources including personnel, overtime, equipment, supplies, training and space to ensure success in meeting goals and objectives.

Provides advice to supervisor on significant issues and problems related to work accomplishment. Establishes metrics and utilizes analysis systems to ensure actions are timely and reviewed at critical points. Accepts, amends, or rejects work presented by subordinates. Performs self-assessments and presents detailed and comprehensive reports with any corrective action taken to supervisor. Follows-up to ensure complete and quality resolution of discrepancies.

Assesses and revises policies and procedures as needed to find ways to improve quality, timeliness, and efficiency of work. 2. Responsible for the acquisition, construction, maintenance, repair, and operating of real property facilities, and provides related management, engineering, and other support work.

Specifically, this includes (a) acquisition, accountability, and disposal of real estate; (b) planning and programming of total requirements for the maintenance, repair, and construction of facilities including financial management of facility programs; (c) provision of basic utility services; (d) maintenance and repair of structures and associated equipment; (e) furnishing snow removal, pest control, fire prevention, and engineering services activities. 3.

Represents the Base Architect/Engineer at meetings and conferences with HQ ANG and intermediate command staff, Commanders and staff representatives of tenant organizations, Division and District Engineer representatives of the Corps of Engineers and Naval Facilities Engineering Command, metropolitan airports commission staff; FAA, Veterans Administration, highway department representatives; Federal, states, and city Environmental Protection Agency representatives.

Coordinates on plans, exchanges information, recommends policy or procedures and keeps apprised of new architecture and engineering developments. Makes decisions in line with prior ANG Base policy and planning, such as priority of new construction, acceptance of completed work, facility disposal, real estate acquisition, utilization, or disposal actions. 4. Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Education

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) 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.) If you are using education to qualify for this position, you must provide transcripts or other documentation to support your Educational claims.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Air National Guard Units, Department of the Air Force.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $96443 – $125378/yr.

What security clearance is required?

This position requires a Secret security clearance.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-10-21.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Fed Excepted' hiring path.