SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER

Summary You will serve as a Senior Environmental Engineer in the Environmental Compliance Branch of NAV FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND SE. Responsibilities You will serve as the senior environmental engineer providing technical environmental compliance oversight, training, and mentoring You will establish and implement petroleum compliance program for the integration of environmental compliance management and pollution prevention into mission operations and facilities management functions You will represent the FEC, installation and tenants in resolving routine and complex compliance issues, appropriately coordinating action and communication with Navy entities and chain of command You will prepare scopes of work, government estimates, board reports, project schedules, and other documents to execute and administer the contract(s) in the Petroleum tank compliance program area You will review and comment on the contractor submittals, monitors progress, review contractor payments, prepare contractor evaluations and recommend final acceptance of reports and other submittals required by the contract(s) You will serve as a member of pre-selection boards, Selection and Contract Award Boards for A-E contracts on environmental matters You will assist others in managing, administering, and providing environmental engineering support for tank performance standards, maintenance and operation of release detection. You will assist others in managing, administering, and providing environmental engineering support for spill and overfill prevention, corrosion protection systems, release reporting and corrective action, tank closure, and record-keeping requirements You will provide training and mentoring of technical environmental staff and personnel in other business lines to ensure continued learning and continuity. You will be facilitating information sharing, coordination and distribution of technical data within Environmental Compliance Core, and other business lines You will communicate with individuals or groups to influence them to adopt or comply with environmental protection or improvement standards, practices, or procedures. You will develop reports to inform management of major environmental and hazardous material problems and the development of programs and project solutions. You will lead teams by providing proactive and technical direction and motivation to maintain accurate application of environmental engineering processes and the overall success of a technical management process. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications 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) Preparing Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure plans, Facility Response Plans, inspection reports, and other reports, studies, permits, etc. relating to environmental compliance with petroleum storage and spill prevention regulations; 2) Interpreting and implements environmental directives, standards, regulations, and policies; 3) Managing contract actions to implement environmental corrective measures and/or develop environmental products 4) Preparing scopes of works and government estimates for petroleum compliance services 5) Interacting with regulatory agencies to ensure compliance with and resolve potential infractions of applicable local, state, or federal regulations, directives, policies, or permits 6) Conducting environmental technical surveys, audits, studies, and investigations 7) Reviewing plans and specifications related to the planning, design, and construction of facilities 8) Communicating technical and programmatic matters at meetings, conferences, and hearings with municipal, state, regional, federal regulatory authorities, higher echelons, commands, technical peers, and the general public.. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: AND 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. Education Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: 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. OR 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: OR 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 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: OR 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 under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above) OR 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. Additional Information This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program. Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments. During the application process you will have the ability to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions in the local commuting area. Depending on the hiring organization and the position being filled, job requirements (e.g., security clearance, travel, drug testing, financial disclosure filing, bargaining unit status, etc.) may vary. Other hiring managers filling similar positions may offer relocation expense reimbursement and/or may offer recruitment incentives for new employees, depending on funding availability and in accordance with policy. If you opt-in and are referred on a certificate, your resume will be available to other hiring managers for 180-days from the date the job announcement closes. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions. Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation. ICTAP Applicants: To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority as an ICTAP candidate, displaced Federal employees must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a rating in the highly qualified category (score 85) or higher. ICTAP candidates must provide copies of all of the following documentation at the time of application:?1) agency notice; 2) most recent performance appraisal; and 3) most recent SF-50 or notification of personnel action that includes position, grade level, and duty location. Applicants who do not provide this documentation will not receive consideration as an ICTAP candidate. For more information about ICTAP eligibility please review the following link: Military Spouse Preference applicants will be placed at the highest grade for which they have applied and are determined Best Qualified (BQ). A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position.