Chief Engineer

You must meet the United States Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) qualification requirements for the advertised position. You must meet all eligibility and qualifications requirements by the closing date of the job announcement. For the ECQs and PTQs, you are required to submit a narrative response addressing your specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that demonstrate your possession of the qualifications. For more information about the Executive Core Qualifications, please visit this site: https://www.opm.gov/ses/references/GuidetoSESQuals_2010.pdf Applicants must clearly show possession and demonstrated leadership experience, normally obtained over several years by serving in positions at the GS-15 level or equivalent for each ECQ and PTQs. Failure to address and meet any of the ECQs and PTQ via the vacancy questionnaire, will eliminate you from further consideration. Review the ECQ competencies guidance and sample resumes in OPM’s Guide to Senior Executive Service Qualification. Applicants currently serving in a Senior-Rated (SR) appointment (other than a temporary promotion), career Senior Executive Service (SES) appointment, or have successfully completed a SES Candidate Development Program and have been certified by the Office of Personnel Management do not need to address the ECQs, but must address each PTQ. Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs): ECQ 1 – Leading Change: The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. ECQ 2 – Leading People: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization’s vision, mission and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. ECQ 3 – Results Driven: The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems and calculating risks. ECQ 4 – Business Acumen: The ability to manage human, financial and information resources strategically. ECQ 5 – Building Coalitions: The ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments or international organizations to achieve common goals. Professional Technical Qualification (PTQ): PTQ 1 – Demonstrated experience providing centralized program management and contractor oversight of major projects. Experience includes planning, directing, executing and controlling all professional engineering and/or architectural tasks and associated resources. The scope of the projects involves multi-year and multi-million dollar capital budgets for construction, preservation or renovation of historical buildings and assets. PTQ 2 – Demonstrated ability managing and providing leadership to a large and diverse architectural and engineering organization. Experience includes serving as a robust champion advocating and defending decisions and program recommendations in potentially adversarial and politically sensitive environments. PTQ 3 – Demonstrated experience with organizational planning in engineering and/or architecture designed to deliver results by identifying the organization’s immediate, long-term objectives, and formulating and monitoring specific measures and strategies to achieve them.
Joins us and be part of a unique mission and organization that oversees long-range facility planning, architectural and engineering design, historic preservation and project, program and construction management on the Capitol complex. The Chief Engineer leads a workforce of over 300 government employees and oversees the safe and efficient delivery of planning, design and construction services across the agency.