General Engineer (Scheduler) at DOS, Overseas Buildings Operations

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THIS IS A NON-STATUS, NON-PERMANENT POSITION.  YOU DO NOT ACQUIRE A COMPETITIVE OR EXCEPTED SERVICE STATUS FROM THIS POSITION.

This position is located in the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Program Development, Coordination, and Support Directorate, Office of Project Development and Coordination, Project Analysis Division (OBO/PDCS/PDC/PA).

Applicants seeking to apply to the Interdisciplinary Architect (Scheduler), please refer to announcement: OBO-PSC 2024-0075.

Duties:

The employee serves as a Senior Project Scheduler and recognized authority in the engineering or architectural field providing expert technical advice on requirements for scheduling of the design and construction of new buildings or the rehabilitation and alteration of existing structures. In so doing, the incumbent is responsible for providing: (1) expertise in directing, planning, scheduling, and analyzing services in all phases of the project/program planning and execution; (2) expert advice and guidance on projects characterized by constantly changing physical environment or other similar variables and critical problems (e.g., costs, economics), affecting planning and design criteria; and (3) engineering expertise to multi-disciplinary teams of design and construction professionals in providing services to the Division. In furtherance of these responsibilities, the employee performs a wide range of project planning and review responsibilities that include but are not necessarily limited to the following.

Serves as a Senior Project/Program Scheduler with responsibility for evaluating, planning, and developing forecasts of time and resources needed for design and engineering projects. Based on these factors and in consideration of other assigned programs and projects in process and projected develops optimum assignment and completion schedules.

• Provides professional engineering advice to peers, subordinates, or non-professional administrators and managers on facility, structure, and/or engineering projects.

• Maintains a close working relationship with Division Planning Managers and other involved technical professionals to develop and establish project execution schedules for new construction and major rehabilitation projects.

• Provides technical guidance to Planning Managers in reviewing and validating project planning and execution schedule and the need to develop special reporting requirements.

• Develops improvements in planning and scheduling techniques and monitors progress and results whether performed in-house or by contract.

• Provides critical review and analysis of project progress; prepares reports to identify any problems or concerns that may affect the timely completion of a project’s planning. Conducts investigations to determine the cause and circumstances of delays and reports identified problems to the planning managers or other appropriate officials in a timely manner so that corrective measures may be taken.

• Evaluates scheduling baseline data and incorporates salient factors into design considerations and solutions; evaluates basic project objectives; and identifies most economical and efficient procedures for project execution and performance.

• Assists the Division Chief in identifying available resources for the planning and execution of project efforts and acts as a focal point and leader for the team in problem solving and engineering required actions.

• Performs additional assignments, studies, and special projects at the direction of the supervisor.

Applicants applying as Interdisciplinary General Engineer must show that they possess a professional knowledge of general engineer as evidenced by one of the following: Basic Requirements:

A. Degree: professional engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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 professional 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 --Current registration as a professional engineer 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 Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for professional registration, which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Applicants who have passed the EIT examination AND have completed all the requirements for either (a) a bachelor's degree in engineering technology (BET) from an accredited college of university that included 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences, OR (b) a BET from a program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) may be rated eligible for certain engineering positions at GS-05. Eligibility is limited to positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of the engineering technology program. Applicants for positions that involve highly technical research, development, or similar functions requiring an advanced level of competence in basic science must meet the basic requirements in paragraph A.

Because of the diversity in kind and quality of BET programs, graduates of other BET programs are required to complete at least 1 year of additional education or highly technical work experience of such nature as to provide reasonable assurance of the possession of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for professional engineering competence. The adequacy of this background must be demonstrated by passing the EIT examination.

3. Specified academic courses--successful 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. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph A.

4. Related curriculum--Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a 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 may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise, or unless he/she qualifies under the provisions of B.2 related to the EIT examination or BET degree.

Applicants must meet all the required qualification requirements, including education, and any selective placement factors described below by the closing date of this announcement. Education may only be substituted in accordance with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook. Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order to be credited towards qualifications. Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the education requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Click on the link for a list of accredited organizations recognized as specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials.

IN ADDITION to the Basic Requirements above, you MUST also have 1 year of specialized experience that is related to the work of the position, is equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal service, and demonstrates the following:

1. Expert knowledge of advanced planning and scheduling methodologies and their application to engineering programs and project management principles including PERT, CPM, LOB, GANTT, Systems Analysis, Tiered Scheduling, resource loading/unveiling, and performance management analysis.


2. Experience with systems and data analysis methods to enable identification and quantification of potential problems to maximize the use of data derived from application of schedule controls systems criteria and to optimize project and program management controls.


3. Experience with data information requirements and project management software accompanied by the understanding of multiple platform IT systems in order to collaborate effectively with IT support personnel in converting raw data into useable management information.


4. Experience in cost/scheduling integration through the use of work breakdown structures and knowledge of the development of summary work cost control and organization contract work breakdown structures.