Supervisory General Engineer

Department of Transportation; Des Moines (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Transportation seeks a first-level manager for an engineering unit, directing engineers and support staff on routine projects per established policies and guidelines.

Candidates must hold a Professional Engineering degree (ABET‑accredited) or an equivalent combination of education and experience, plus licensure or eligibility (EI/EIT/PE). Strong project management experience is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET‑accredited program.
• Combination of education and experience with required coursework is acceptable.
• Professional registration or licensure as EI, EIT, or PE by any state is required or eligible.
• Specialized experience in professional engineering with emphasis on project management.
• Equivalent GS‑13 level experience in an 800 Engineer series is required.

Responsibilities

• Directs the work of subordinate engineers and support personnel at the unit level.
• Oversees routine project/program tasks in line with established policies and guidelines.
• Demonstrates project management capabilities within engineering disciplines.

Skills

Project management

Engineering knowledge

Licensure

FE exam

Engineering licensure

Education

ABET‑accredited engineering degree

Engineering licensure (EI/EIT/PE)

Job description

Serves as first level manager to assigned workforce consisting of engineers, and support personnel. Directs the work of subordinate employees at the organizational unit level. Work includes routine project/program tasks based on established policies, procedures, and guidelines.

Basic Requirements:

Degree: Professional 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

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)2 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 section above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described above.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.)

To qualify for this position, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I (FG/GS-13). Specialized experience is experience gained in an 800 Engineer series position that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.

Specialized experience includes:

Work experience in any discipline of professional engineering with emphasis on project management skills.