Mechanical Engineer

US National Gallery of Art; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC seeks qualified engineers to support major construction and facilities projects through formal qualification standards. Candidates must hold an ABET‑accredited engineering degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience, and be eligible for professional registration or licensure in the District of Columbia or a U.S.

territory. A year of specialized experience at GS-12 level in managing construction projects, cost estimates, site

Qualifications

• ABET-accredited engineering degree or equivalent acceptable background.
• Combination of education and experience satisfying core engineering knowledge and applications.
• Passing FE exam or licensure as EI, EIT, or PE in DC, PR, or US territories.
• 60 semester hours of courses in physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences with required coverage.

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Combination of education and experience with Engineer Intern/ EIT or PE licensure

Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or equivalent licensure

60 semester hours in physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences

Job description

We are the nation’s art museum, home to a renowned collection of over 160,000 works of art from antiquity to today. Millions of people come through our doors each year—with even more online—making us one of the most visited art museums in the world. Located on the National Mall, admission to the West and East Buildings, Sculpture Garden, special exhibitions, and public programs is always free.

Basic Requirements

A. 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

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 anyState, 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)2 examination or any other written test required for professionalregistration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District ofColumbia, 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 thespecified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program asdescribed 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.)

Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1, may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise.

AND

Specialized Experience Statement:

Candidates must possess at least one year of specialized experience, equivalent in responsibility to the GS-12 level in the Federal service or private sector, managing construction projects or facilities service contracts, developing scopes of work/cost estimates, site inspections, preparing reports regarding performance of work, project closeout, invoice review for payment AND reviewing mechanical engineering reports or plans for commercial/ government clients.

Associated Group standard: Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Professional and Scientific Positions

You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

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.