ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER (Title 5)

As an ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER GSyou will:

This position is located in the Base Environmental Management Office and serves as the installation Environmental Program Manager for the assigned Air National Guard (ANG) installation. An ANG installation can be one with a flying mission or non-flying mission such as a Civil Engineering Red Horse Unit a Combat Readiness Training Center or a Geographically Separated Unit with regional geographical responsibilities. Serves as the single point of contact for the initiation development and execution of all environmental activities and development of regulatory guidance for an installation and its immediate geographic region with a collaborative influence extending to a broader area. Regional responsibilities may include but are not limited to: aircraft mishap response off site release assessments air emission estimates storm water discharge monitoring and hazardous material shipments. Broader geographic impacts may include but are not limited to: exporting project solutions staff assistance visits compliance assessments and partnering with other units and intra-agency contacts to address challenges that affect multiple ANG units within or beyond state boundaries. Accomplishes long range environmental planning budgeting and programming activities that impacts the installation and the region. Reviews engineering planning and construction documents for environmental considerations as required. Oversees the operations of the Environmental Management Office to include providing limited supervision over any subordinate positions. Supervisory responsibilities will constitute less than 25% of the average work time thus are not classification impacting.

• Males born after 31 December 1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigation.
• May be required to successfully complete a trial period.
• Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance of the position.
• Work may occasionally require travel away from the normal duty station on military or commercial aircraft.
• May be required to work other than normal duty hours; comp-time or overtime may be required.
• This position is designated as Essential Personnel and may be subject to duty in preparation for or in response to a state emergency or disaster declaration.
• This designation will not exceed 14 calendar days per year unless otherwise approved in advance by the TAG.

BASIC REQUIREMENTS:
A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable the program must: (1) lead to a bachelors 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 Boards 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.
B. 2. 1. Applicants who have passed the EIT examination and have completed all the requirements for either (a) a bachelors degree in engineering technology (BET) from an accredited college of university that included 60 semester hours of courses in the physical mathematical and engineering sciences or (b) a BET from a program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) may be rated eligible for certain engineering positions at GS-5. Eligibility is limited to positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of the engineering technology program. Applicants for positions that involve highly technical research development or similar functions requiring an advanced level of competence in basic science must meet the basic requirements in paragraph A.
B. 2. 2. Because of the diversity in kind and quality of BET programs graduates of other BET programs are required to complete at least 1 year of additional education or highly technical work experience of such nature as to provide reasonable assurance of the possession of the knowledge skills and abilities required for professional engineering competence. The adequacy of this background must be demonstrated by passing the EIT examination.
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 bachelors 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 bachelors 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.)

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:
Must have 1-year equivalent to at least next lower grade level experience education or training for management supervision or performance of (1) planning designing construction and/or maintaining structures and facilities; and (2) investigating measuring surveying and mapping the earths physical features.

Knowledge Skill and Abilities (KSAs): Applicants are encouraged to submit a separate sheet(s) addressing the Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs) and how they relate to work experience education or training.

• Knowledge applicable to a wide range of environmental engineering duties; and the skill to modify standard practices and adapt equipment or techniques to solve a variety of problems; adapt precedents or make significant departures from previous approaches to similar projects to provide for the specialized requirements of projects; and apply standard practices of related engineering disciplines as they relate to environmental engineering functions.
• Knowledge of environmental sciences and related disciplines the effect of actions and technology on the environment the means of preventing or reducing pollution and the relationship between environmental factors and human health and well-being.
• Knowledge of contract administration to negotiate and provide technical oversight monitor vendor performance and ensure compliance with terms of contract.
• Skill in planning organizing directing coordinating operating and evaluating Installation Environmental programs.
• Knowledge of and skill in applying basic budgetary policies and procedures to provide a financial analysis of environmental resource requirements.
• Knowledge of pertinent laws regulations policies and precedents affecting the Installation Environmental Management Program to include federal/state/local/DoD/AF/ANG requirements.
• Skill in preparing and presenting briefings/project papers and staff reports; coordinating planning efforts; and managing program activities to effectively communicate requirements with staff and line personnel to encourage understanding and acceptance of findings and recommendations and to negotiate with high-level civil and military executives.

Required Experience:

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