Spvr Community Planner/Natural Resources Spec/Environmental Engineer/Physical Scientist
- Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command
- Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
- Full Time
This is an interdisciplinary position and will be filled as a Community Planner, Natural Resources Specialist, Environmental Engineer, or Physical Scientist.
This position has a selective placement factor that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates for the 0819 series only . The Selective Placement Factor is: You must be a currently licensed/registered Professional Engineer (PE) if applying to the Environmental Engineer (0819). Your license or registration must be held in a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States. Do you meet this requirement? ***NOTE: A copy of your current license/registration showing the expiration date MUST be submitted with your application in order to be considered for this position. A copy of a wall certificate that does not have an expiration date will not serve to verify this requirement.
Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Providing professional and technical leadership to support the delivery of environmental planning products and services to NAVFAC customers or Supported Commanders (Department of Defense (DoD) organizations); 2) Managing and executing Environmental Planning, including completion of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents, particularly Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) and Environmental Assessments (EAs); 3) Providing innovative, responsive, and sustainable solutions to ensure that Supported Commanders (DoD organizations) are able to meet their training and operational mission needs while also ensuring environmental compliance; 4) Understanding, interpreting and consulting with federal and state agencies and working knowledge of the laws, rules, and regulations to include NEPA, Executive Order 12114 on Environmental Effects Abroad of Major Federal Actions and all other associated regulations and guidance; and 5) Coordinating and communicating with higher-level DoD commands and non-DoD federal agencies, state and local agency subject matter experts related to environmental planning to resolve complex or unique issues and assist in prioritizing resources.
Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:
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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.Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:
~Applicants applying to the Community Planner (0020) must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:
Degree: community planning; or related field such as urban affairs, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, sociology, geography, economics, political science, or public administration that included at least 12 semester hours in the planning process, socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, urban and regional economic analysis, and development finance.
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Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in one of the above disciplines, or a combination of related courses totaling at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the above disciplines of which at least 12 semester hours were in the planning process, and socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
~Applicants applying to the Natural Resources Specialist (0401) must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:Degree: biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position
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Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
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Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), 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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 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 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: ORSuccessful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above)
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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 one 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.
~Applicants applying to the Physical Scientist (1301) must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:
Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics.
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Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.