Summary

This vacancy is for a GS-0819-12, Interdisciplinary Environmental Management Specialist located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT DIVISION in Oakland, CA, Cleveland, OH and Seattle, WA.

Duties

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You will serve as a/an Interdisciplinary Environmental Management Specialist and be responsible for being a subject matter expert (SME) for a wide range of environmental programs encompassing environmental remediation/restoration and environmental liabilities, environmental compliance, environmental planning, and environmental sustainability throughout the CEU AOR.

Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include:

• Assisting with the effective and efficient execution and management of the Coast Guard's multifaceted environmental program throughout a designated area of responsibility as well as on a national, enterprise-wide basis as workload, resources, and program priorities necessitate.
• Guiding / supporting the execution of the Coast Guard environmental program at both the depot and unit levels, programmatically and on a day-to-day execution basis. Providing authoritative guidance, advice, technical assistance, training and professional development, and general environmental program support to units and personnel on a wide variety of environmental program aspects.
• Providing environmental program technical support, guidance, and assistance to design team and project execution personnel, asset managers, planners, real property professionals, support staff and other professionals providing and/or supporting shore infrastructure logistics support and executing the CG civil engineering/facilities management program. Reviewing program and project documents to ensure compliance with environmental regulatory mandates, and environmental planning requirements, conformance with Coast Guard environmental policy and program objectives, and appropriate consideration of pollution prevention / stewardship concepts are appropriately and properly incorporated into final documents.
• Providing environmental planning / determining the appropriate level of documentation required to comply with National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for SILC initiatives and specific projects.
• Serving as a Remedial Program/Site Manager (RPM/RSM) for contaminated sites. Activities typically include identification of contaminated areas / investigations of past spills / releases of regulated substances, coordination of field sampling and characterization, oversight of remediation / investigation activities, writing reports detailing investigations and corrective actions; and negotiating with regulatory agencies to determine appropriate corrective actions.
• Conducting/participating in environmental compliance evaluations (ECEs), hazardous materials / hazardous waste management surveys, assessments of compliance management programs, compliance assistance visits, and similar environmental audits/assessments.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

Do NOT include the following types of information in your resume:

• Social Security Number (SSN)
• Date of Birth (DOB)
• Photos of yourself (if included on your resume you will not be considered for this position)
• Personal information: such as age, gender, religious affiliation, etc.

Key Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be registered or exempt from the Selective Service. See www.sss.gov
• A one-year probationary period may be required.
• Under provisions of the Civil Service Reform Act, first time supervisors and/or managers will be required to serve a one-year probationary period.
• To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy. To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo and successfully pass a background investigation. This position requires a Non-Sensitive Background check.
• This is not a Bargaining Unit position.
• Selectee must be able to obtain/maintain a valid state driver's license.
• Selectee subject to successful completion of pre-employment medical exam.
• All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit.
• This position may require occasional overtime work.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) certification.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Coast Guard issued NEPA Warrant.

The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements: This position has a positive Education Requirement in addition to at least one year of Specialized Experience or substitution of education for experience or combination (if applicable) in order to be found minimally qualified. Transcripts must be submitted with your application package.

You MUST meet the following requirements:

EDUCATION:

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 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 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 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 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.

AND

To qualify at the GS-12 grade level, your resume must demonstrate at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 grade level in the federal sector. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. Examples of specialized experience include performing the following types of tasks on a regular basis.

• Proving technical support, guidance, or direction to personnel, units, and/or program management personnel to facilitate environmental regulatory compliance and enhance environmental stewardship.
• Executing, managing, and coordinating remediation / restoration projects and activities for the management and remedy of real property environmental liabilities.
• Managing and supporting compliance with NEPA requirements and/or ensuring program, projects, and activities adhere to historic / cultural resource management responsibilities and other environmental mandates for the preservation and protection of natural resources.
• Conducting regulatory compliance audits, compliance assistance visits, and/or pollution prevention assessments; documenting audit findings, drafting audit reports, assisting with / guiding resolution of non-compliance findings, or mentoring / training other audit personnel.
• Developing scopes of work/ statements of service, cost estimates, and project schedules; coordinating / monitoring / inspecting work-in-progress, investigating and supporting resolution of hindrances to project execution, supporting the resolution of contract disputes, liaising with stakeholders, participating in meetings and conference calls, review of work plans and other contractor submittals, or executing other project management / COR responsibilities.

NOTE: All experience statements (i.e., duties, specialized experience, or related applicable assessment) copied from this announcement and pasted into your resume will not be considered as a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.

NOTE: Education cannot be substituted for experience at this grade level.

National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer 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). 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.

Education

This position does have a positive education requirement. If you are including education on your resume, report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Required Documents section for detail.

Are you qualifying based on education? Submit a copy of your college transcript (unofficial is acceptable) from an accredited institution. Once selected & prior to appointment, applicants must provide an official college transcript. Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the U.S. (see FOREIGN EDUCATION below).

College Transcript: If this position requires specific educational course work to qualify, or you are qualifying based in whole or part on education, you are required to provide all unofficial transcripts (undergraduate, graduate, etc.) by the closing date of this announcement or you will be disqualified from further consideration. Transcripts should be legible and detailed, showing course number and department (i.e., bio 101, math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours, and grade earned. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an offi