Mechanical Engineer

This position is located in the Facilities Management Division National Gallery Of Art (NGA) Washington DC a organization providing a board range of facilities engineering and support services. The incumbent provides mechanical engineering advice guidance and direction to the Head of Facilities/Engineering on all relevant matters including repair program planning alteration upgrade and renovation of all aspects of the Gallery mechanical systems and equipment facilities condition assessments and maintenance service and repair contracts.

Duties for this position include:

• Providing mechanical engineering expertise and recommendations to the Head of Facilities/Engineering in overseeing the Gallerys facilities maintenance management programs.
• Managing coordinating and developing design plans and specifications for the repair replacement renovation and maintenance of the Gallerys chilled water distribution system air handling unit systems (supply/ventilation exhaust air) steam systems and plumbing (domestic irrigation storm water) systems.
• Preparing the scope of work for architect and engineer (A&E) contracts and reviewing the contractors designs. Analyzing bids in the preparation of pre-award documents and providing technical responses to questions from prospective bidders.
• Serving as the technical advisor and expert to Administration - Facilities Management and the Gallerys engineers and technicians on complex mechanical design problems and installation of mechanical systems.
• Performing and directing engineering surveys.

• You must be a United States Citizen.
• This employer participates in the e-Verify program.
• Males born aftermust be registered for Selective Service.
• See Other Information section regarding Selective Service requirements.
• Suitable for Federal employment determined by a background investigation.
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period.

Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. For information on qualification requirements seeQualification Standards Handbook forGeneral Schedule Positionsviewable onOPM Website. It is your responsibility to ensure that you submit appropriate documentation prior to the closing date. Your resume serves as the basis for qualification determinations and must highlight your most relevant and significant experience as it relates to this job announcement. Be clear and specific when describing your work history since human resources cannot make assumptions regarding your experience.

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). Your resume must include the dates of all qualifying experience (from month/year to month/year) and the number of hours worked/volunteered per week.

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 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 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 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 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.)

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.

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 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

All Merit Promotion applicants must meet time-in-grade requirements defined in 5CFR 300 subpart F. One year at the GS-12 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-13 level.

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.