Mechanical Engineer (Hydropower)

Description:

Here is a great opportunity to join an organization with excellent growth potential!

LOCATION: Great Plains Region, Wyoming Area Office, Facilities Management Division, Mechanical Group, Mills, WY (near Casper, WY).

For living conditions go to: https://www.usbr.gov/gp/employment/living_conditions.pdf

Promotions to the next grade/salary level are neither guaranteed nor automatic, but based on supervisor initiation.

A Recruitment or Relocation Incentive may be authorized. For information on Recruitment or Relocation Incentives, visit: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/recruitment-relocation-retention-incentives/fact-sheets/recruitment-incentives/ https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/recruitment-relocation-retention-incentives/fact-sheets/relocation-incentives/

Additional vacancies may be filled from this vacancy announcement.

Duties - Collects and prepares mechanical design data, technical contract paragraphs and coordinates with others to develop specification and contracts for the procurement and installation of or modification to, turbines, pumps, generators, larger motors, governors, cranes, large gates and valves and other associated mechanical equipment.

• Prepares designs, technical contracts paragraphs, work statements and cost estimates for minor mechanical equipment procurement, such as small air compressors, gate controls, small pumps and motors, and gate control systems.

• Serves as a technical expert to the construction management group during contract performance period. Updates drawings to reflect as-built conditions and prepares instructions and updates for Standing Operating Procedures (SOP).

• Furnishes mechanical engineering technical guidance to Facilities Maintenance (FM) staff, troubleshoots mechanical equipment problems and develops engineering solutions.

• Reviews preventive maintenance procedures, trouble reports and test results to identify, prioritize and schedule maintenance projects.

• Develops need assessments, preliminary design concepts and alternatives, cost estimate, economic analysis, decision documents, justifications, schedule and reports for assigned projects.

Supervisory Status

Qualifications:

Qualifications MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must first meet the Basic Education Qualification Requirements listed below:

A. 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

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)*, 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)** 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.

*For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org.

**The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.

1. 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.

2. 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.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT: In addition to meeting the Basic Education Qualification Requirements, applicants must have additional education and/or specialized experience as defined below:

GS-05: Applicants who meet the basic education qualification requirements are fully qualified at the GS-05 level.

GS-07: 1 full year of directly related graduate-level education or superior academic achievement -OR- 1 year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-05 level in the Federal service -OR- a combination of education and experience.

GS-09: 2 full years of directly related, progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree -OR- 1 year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-07 level in the Federal service -OR- a combination of education and experience.

GS-11: 3 full years of directly related, progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree -OR- 1 year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-09 level in the Federal service -OR- a combination of education and experience.

GS-12: 1 year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-11 level in the Federal service.

DEFINITION OF SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: To meet specialized experience, your resume must describe experience that demonstrates the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities as follows:

GS-07: Experience in the design, repair or modification of mechanical equipment or systems using established criteria and mechanical applications.

GS-09: Experience in the repair or testing of mechanical and electro-mechanical equipment or systems typical of a hydropower-generation work facility. Experience in working with at least two of the following: strength of materials, lubrication, compressors, valves and gates, pumps, fluid flow, electrical generation and motor equipment, governors, and auxiliary equipment.

GS-11: Experience in the design, repair, or testing of mechanical and electro-mechanical equipment or systems typical of a hydropower-generation work facility. Experience in at least three of the following: rotating machine alignment, inspecting and troubleshooting the installation of mechanical equipment, developing reports, reviewing and preparing job hazard analysis for mechanical installations, gathering field data from mechanical equipment, preparing designs, layouts and drawings of mechanical equipment.

GS-12: Experience in the design, repair, testing or modification of mechanical and electro-mechanical equipment or systems typical of a hydropower-generation work facility. Experience in all of the following: rotating machine alignment, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditions (HVAC), inspecting and troubleshooting the installation of mechanical equipment, developing reports, reviewing and preparing job hazard analysis for mechanical installations, gathering field data from mechanical equipment, preparing designs, layouts and drawings of mechanical equipment.

This position has a mandatory education requirement; you must furnish a copy of your transcript of college work completed (unofficial copy is acceptable). Transcripts must include the name of the college or university and date the degree was conferred. Non-submission will result in you being rated not qualified for the position.

Foreign Education: To receive credit for education completed outside the United States, applicants must show proof that the education has been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and such education has been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs. For further information visit: https://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

You must meet all qualification requirements and any selective placement factors by the closing date of this announcement.

Application Instructions:

Contact Human Resources Office Phone: 406-247-7696 Email : gphireme@usbr.gov