Job Summary:

This position is located at 7401 Fullerton Road, Springfield, VA 22153, in the Office of Security, International Security Programs Division (SEC/ISP),at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serves as the General Engineer working independently or as part of a team on multi-disciplined security equipment, programs, or facilities complexes, including constructional, mechanical, and electrical engineering expertise.
• Provides professional expertise and communicates verbally and in writing to senior leadership on standards, procedural guidelines, and directives as necessary and provides operational interface.
• Plans and implements a comprehensive security program for overseas activities that is directed towards the protection of personnel, facilities, and residences.
• Serves as a technical authority for department-wide RF communications systems, technical and physical security systems.
• Serves as the lead Engineer/Program Manager working independently or as part of a team on multi-disciplined security equipment, programs, or facilities complexes, including constructional, mechanical, and electrical engineering expertise.
• Provides technical and administrative direction on planned security engineering projects with assignments in terms of broadly defined missions and functions.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

BASIC REQUIREMENT(S): 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

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.

Specialized Experience:
GS-13: In addition to the Education requirement you MUST have at least one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience refers to full-time work, while part-time roles are considered on a prorated basis. Examples of qualifying specialized experience at the next lower level for this position includes: a) Applying scientific and engineering concepts, principles, theories, underlying physics and methods to resolve issues for complex Physical and Technical Security systems; b) Developing Engineering systems for complex technical construction projects; AND c) Applying fundamental principles of economics to determine sound engineering judgment for long range budgeting and construction project planning for projects.

GS-14: In addition to the Education requirement you MUST have at least one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience refers to full-time work, while part-time roles are considered on a prorated basis. Examples of qualifying specialized experience at the next lower level for this position includes: a) Experience leading a multi-disciplinary team on construction and or security engineering upgrade projects; b) Provide engineering oversight and coordinating work-related issues with peers, subordinates and briefed management; AND c) Experience as a team leader responsible for design, quality assurance and the execution and implementation of engineering projects.

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 relevant to the position’s duties to be filled, including volunteer experience.