Supervisory General Engineer – Public Notice Announcement (Direct Hire)

Minimum Qualifications In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements. 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). Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. GG-14 Specialized Experience: One year of work performed at the next lower grade/level in the federal service (GG/GS-13) or other equal federal pay systems, or the public sector as described below. There is no substitution of education for specialized experience at the GG-14 grade level. Examples of Specialized Experience: applying knowledge and skill of the principles, methods, and techniques of engineering applicable to the operations and maintenance of wastewater treatment facilities, flood control channels and structures, and field office facilities; applying knowledge of engineering fields such as civil, mechanical, environmental, constructional, design, and electrical to resolve problems and/or develop proposals for the operations, maintenance, repair, and construction of field office facilities; assessing the condition of infrastructure components and facilities through physical inspections and the development of an infrastructure condition-tracking program; advising and approving the procurement and replacement of field office equipment; evaluating recommendations and facts, and preparing specifications; overseeing and approving operations activities for the safety of dams, wastewater treatment plants, construction projects, power plants, and facilities operations; reviewing reports, work plans, capital plans, activities and work performed by contractors; preparing, reviewing, and evaluating scopes of work, proposals, and cost estimates for maintenance activities; providing civil engineering guidance and input on the planning, design, construction, and rehabilitation of existing and/or new structures and facilities; reviewing designs to ensure the constructability, function, and that design assumptions are correct; planning moderate to substantially complex project assignments; planning, budgeting and coordinating efforts and project execution; interpreting and applying Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and other governmental policies, regulations, and standards to solve specific problems relating to program areas; skill in written and oral communication to interact effectively with personnel of state and federal representatives and officials; resolving unofficial and official employee grievances; supervising administrative missions to include internal controls, budgeting, long-range planning, infrastructure maintenance and operations, and local government coordination; hiring, evaluating, and disciplining division level staff, either directly or through subordinate supervisors; conducting mid-year and end-of-year evaluations for employees within allotted deadlines; and equitably assigning work to employees based on priorities, the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the skills and capabilities of the employees. College Teaching: College-level teaching of engineering may be considered as professional experience in engineering. In accepting and evaluating teaching experience, all specific qualification requirements pertaining to the evaluation of professional experience such as grade level, responsibility, scope, specialization, and knowledge required are also applicable to the evaluation of teaching experience. Teaching experience that is accompanied by a significant amount of research, direction of research, investigative, or similar work may be credited at full value in meeting a specific requirement for research, investigative, or similar experience.
Serves as Chief of the Operations and Maintenance Division in the Operations Department of the United States Section, International Boundary and Water Commission (USIBWC) and is primarily responsible for directing professional, technical and administrative staff in managing field offices infrastructure and ensuring mission compliance. The position carries out the USIBWCs core mission strategic goals and is in a mission-critical occupation (MCO).