Supervisory General Engineer

The mission of the National Gallery of Art is to serve the United States of America in a nationalrole by preserving collecting exhibiting and fostering the understanding of works of art at thehighest possible museum and scholarly standards. Incumbents work is integral to fulfilling theGallerys mission particularly the preserving and exhibiting aspects of the mission.

The incumbent is responsible for assisting the Department Head of Facilities Maintenance in the maintenance of all the Gallerys architectural civil and structural systems including all related maintenance and repair projects.

Duties for this position include

• Provides professional engineering expertise for complex building architectural civil and structural projects.
• Leads and supports the development and execution of the Gallerys comprehensive facilities maintenance repair restoration and alteration programs.
• Serves as a COR provides technical guidance to other CORs reviews contract performance and documentation develops procurement requirements analyzes bids participates in pre-bid meetings prepares contract modifications and works with Procurement and Contracts to ensure effective and accountable contract execution.
• Provides leadership and supervision to staff supports workforce development and training promotes safety manages competing resources and priorities and ensures the organization has the technical capabilities necessary to accomplish its mission.
• Coordinates with other Gallery departments supports special events and organizational requirements and provides expertise and leadership in addressing complex facilities issues in support of the Gallerys mission.

• 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

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 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

Specialized Experience Statement: Candidates must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in responsibility to the GS-13 level in the Federal service or private sector with extensive federal facilities management and engineering experience leading the planning execution and oversight of complex maintenance repair restoration alteration and construction programs involving architectural civil structural and building systems. Additional experience includes supervising multidisciplinary skilled-trades personnel; developing maintenance programs budgets scopes of work specifications and independent government estimates; managing contractors and COR activities; and coordinating procurement design and construction.

OPM Qualifications Standard:

Individual Occupational Requirements:Professional Engineering Positions. Associated Group standard:Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Professional and Scientific Positions

Merit promotion applicants must meet the time-in-grade requirement as defined in 5 CFR 300 Subpart F.

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.

Note: Applicants who are referred to the hiring office for selection consideration may be required to submit writing and/or work samples as part of the interview/selection process. If the hiring office decides to request a writing and/or work sample as part of its selection process the vacancy contact will reach out to you by email to: (1) inform you of this requirement; and (2) provide further instructions.