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Conditions of employment

• - U.S. Citizenship - Drug Test - Security Investigation

All applicants must be U.S. citizens and are subject to a thorough background inquiry.

Qualifications

ASSESSMENT FACTORS

1. With no supervision, completes work, meets priorities, and achieved results based on the organization's goals and objectives.

2. Demonstrates excellent oral and written communication skills to compose and deliver responses to complex questions in a clear, concise, and organized manner.

3. Crafts effective recommendations for highly complex or sensitive situations that incorporate strategic direction by identifying the impact of the course of action.

4. Takes a lead role to build collaborative working relationships by encouraging colleagues to engage team members and others on specific or general

issues.

5. Plans, organizes, prioritizes, and schedules own work activities to complete assignments in timely and effective manner.

HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS

1. Education, training, or experience related to understanding and explaining the role of chemical engineering knowledge, processes, equipment, and materiel in chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons and associated delivery systems.

2. Experience communicating complex, technical topics and developments to a non-technical audience.

3. Proficient in project management to include setting and maintaining project milestone deadlines and team resource requirements to ensure timely and efficient project completion.

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: (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.

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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

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.

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.

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.

Additional Experience and Training Provisions for Graduates of Engineering Programs:

a. Superior academic achievement at the baccalaureate level in an engineering program is qualifying for GS-7.

b. A combination of superior academic achievement and 1 year of appropriate professional experience is qualifying at GS-9.

c. Applicants with an engineering bachelor's degree who have appropriate experience as a technician equivalent to grade GS-5 or higher may have such experience credited for grade GS-7 only on a month-for-month basis up to a maximum of 12 months.

d. Successful completion of a 5-year program of study of at least 160 semester hours leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering is qualifying at GS-7. Completion of such a program and 1 year of appropriate professional experience is qualifying at grade GS-9

Graduate Education:

1. Regardless of the field of undergraduate study, completion of the requirements for a master's or higher degree in engineering is fully qualifying for the grade indicated, provided the applicant's total background, i.e., education and any experience, demonstrates evidence of knowledge, skills, and abilities that are substantially equivalent to those acquired through the successful completion of the courses specified in paragraph A.

2. With a bachelor's degree in engineering, graduate education in a related field is acceptable in lieu of graduate study in engineering for appropriate types of positions. For example, a Bachelor of Science in engineering plus a master's degree in business administration would be qualifying for Industrial Engineer, GS-9, but not for GS-9laboratory positions in research and development. The key consideration in determining if such graduate education should be credited is whether or not the education provided the knowledges, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the work of the position being filled.

Occupations Covered by GG-800 Individual Requirements

Occupation Title Series Number

General Engineering Series GG-801

Safety Engineering Series GG-803

Fire Protection Engineering Series GG-804

Materials Engineering Series GG-806

Civil Engineering Series GG-810

Environmental Engineering Series GG-819

Mechanical Engineering Series GG-830

Nuclear Engineering Series GG-840

Electrical Engineering Series GG-850

Computer Engineering Series GG-854

Electronics Engineering Series GG-855

Biomedical Engineering Series GG-858

Aerospace Engineering Series GG-861

Naval Architecture Series GG-871

Mining Engineering Series GG-880

Petroleum Engineering Series GG-881

Agricultural Engineering Series GG-890

Ceramic Engineering Series GG-892

Chemical Engineering Series GG-893

Welding Engineering Series GG-894

Industrial Engineering Series GG-896

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