Mechanical Engineer

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, seeks a senior design engineer to lead the Electrical-Mechanical Section and act as a technical team facilitator. You will plan, design, and coordinate mechanical engineering activities and manage major design development work assignments.

US Citizens only; licensure requirements include a current Professional Engineer (PE) license or equivalent, with engineering analysis and project design experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
• Current PE license or licensure path (EI/EIT) or FE exam completed.
• One year of specialized engineering experience in mechanical design or related field.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership as senior design engineer and facilitate the technical team within the Electrical-Mechanical Section.
• Plan, design, and coordinate mechanical engineering activities and major design development work assignments.

Skills

Licensure awareness

Engineering fundamentals

Education

ABET-accredited program

PE licensing or FE exam readiness

Bachelor's in engineering

Job description

About the Position

Provides leadership as senior design engineer and technical team facilitator in the Electrical-Mechanical Section of the Seattle District office. Performs major design development work assignments planning, designing, and coordinating mechanical engineering activities.

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. SELECTIVE PLACEMENT FACTOR: This position requires a current Professional Engineering License issued by any State in the United States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. (you must upload a copy of your current PE license within your application package)

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:
  • 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 eminent 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, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
  • 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.
• 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 exp