Summary

You will serve as the N41 Utility Water, and Energy Division Director, SUPERVISORY GENERAL ENGINEER, in the N4 Facilities and Environmental, of COMMANDER NAVY REGION HAWAII.

Duties

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• You will be responsible for performing specific administrative and technical tasks for NRH utility contracts and projects, ensuring compliance with terms under the guidance of a senior engineer or manager.
• You will be accountable for the leadership, management and control of the Utilities and Energy Product Line and will be responsible for planning and executing the energy and water conservation program for the FEC and CNIC Navy Region.
• You will provide expert advice to senior colleagues and or agency officials responsible for broad program operations and give significant and innovative recommendations for advancing programs and methods to execute projects throughout the Region.
• You will analyze aspects of utility systems, such as short-circuit currents, system voltage levels or power system impedances, across commodities, capabilities, and NRH installations.
• You will lead and support development of project scopes, preparing cost estimates, and performing design reviews across personnel, departments, and echelons.
• You will have the knowledge and background for oversight and support to integrate policy and operations across the breadth of division responsibilities.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Travel, often with little notice, within the U.S. is required. Frequent travel over long distances is also required.
• Incumbent must possess and maintain a valid state driver's license to travel to dispersed sites within the local commuting areas, to conduct studies
  at various locations, to pick up, transport and deliver mail, etc.
• This position is designated Emergency-Essential (E-E). Emergency Essential civilians are required to sign a DoD Form 2365 as a pre-condition of employment (See Do DD 1200.7, Do DD 1404.10, Do DD 1400.31, and DoDD 1400.32).

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:

• Experience directing or developing comprehensive strategy, policy, and integration plans for energy, water, and utility programs across a large organization or region;
• Experience managing complex financial and operational utility programs, specifically including utility consumption/rate analysis, utility billing, and the execution of project funding (such as ERCIP or other large-scale capital improvements);
• Experience supervising or leading a multidisciplinary technical team (such as engineers, program managers, and analysts), including assigning work, evaluating performance, identifying skill gaps, and fostering a collaborative learning environment;
• Experience building networks and collaborating with internal stakeholders and external utility providers to identify and leverage alternative authorities, funding opportunities, and strategic partnerships that achieve installation energy and water resilience;
• Technical experience overseeing the operation of utility infrastructure and building systems, including the implementation of advanced metering, reporting, and ensuring compliance with federal or agency-level mandates;
• Experience articulating, presenting, and defending complex, sensitive, or controversial utility issues (such as funding shortfalls, rate hikes, or critical vulnerabilities) to senior leadership and a wide range of audiences to influence decision-making.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801/

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=GS-PROF

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must posses:

Individual Occupational Requirements Basic Requirements:

1. 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

1. 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.)

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf

Additional information

PCS may be authorized.

This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program.

Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement.

Position involves considerable physical exertion resulting from long periods of standing and climbing structures in power plants, therefore requires agility and dexterity, and ability to cope with extensive travel.

Work often involves moderate risks or discomforts working around large rotating machinery, high voltage electrical switchgear and high-pressure steam and hydraulic systems in power plants. Work areas may not be adequately lighted or ventilated.

A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments.

During the application process you will have the ability to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions in the local commuting area. Depending on the hiring organization and the position being filled, job requirements (e.g., security clearance, travel, drug testing, financial disclosure filing, bargaining unit status, etc.) may vary. Other hiring managers filling similar positions may offer relocation expense reimbursement and/or may offer recruitment incentives for new employees, depending on funding availability and in accordance with policy. If you opt-in and are referred on a certificate, your resume will be available to other hiring managers for 180-days from the date the job announcement closes. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions.

Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf

OTHER PPP: PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation.

ICTAP Applicants: To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority as an ICTAP candidate, displaced Federal employees must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a rating in the highly qualified category (score 85) or higher. ICTAP candidates must provide copies of all of the following documentation at the time of application: 1) agency notice; 2) most recent performance appraisal; and 3) most recent SF-50 or notification of personnel action that includes position, grade level, and duty location. Applicants who do not provide this documentation will not receive consideration as an ICTAP candidate. For more information about ICTAP eligibility please review the following UPDATED link: https://help.usajobs.gov/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/federal-employees/career-transition

MSP: Military Spouse Preference applicants will receive priority consideration at the Full Performance Level (FPL) and if determined to be Best Qualified at the FPL, and selected, must be placed at the FPL. A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position.

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