Mechanical Engineer

United States Army Installation Management Command; Louisiana (MO); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Army Installation Management Command seeks a Mechanical Engineer for Fort Polk, LA, working under the Directorate of Public Works, Engineering Division. The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in engineering and relevant professional credentials.

Specialized experience includes developing mechanical designs for utility systems and evaluating related engineering work on construction projects. DHA recruitment applies for competitive service appointments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
• Professional registration or licensure (EI/EIT/PE) or FE exam or equivalent credentials.
• Alternative qualification options include completion of 60 semester hours in engineering sciences or related curriculum, plus relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop engineering designs and plans for mechanical utility systems as part of construction projects for facilities.
• Evaluate engineering designs, project plans, and construction work for quality and compliance.

Skills

Engineering knowledge

ABET awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

ABET-accredited program

Job description

Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for certain personnel in the DoD workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

About the Position

This position is located at Fort Polk, Louisiana working under Directorate of Public Works, Engineering Division.

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 Mechanical Engineer

• A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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), 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, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
  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 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.

Specialized Experience

• One year of specialized experience which includes (1) developing engineering designs and plans for mechanical utility systems (e.g., heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration) as part of construction projects for facilities; (2) evaluating the engineering, design, or construction work p