GENERAL ENGINEER

Job Duties

Duty 1: Performs Career Broadening assignments designed to enhance and develop leadership competencies and business skills in the civil engineer functional community. Develops, publishes, and evaluates energy facility policies for achieving and reporting energy goals to comply with the Department of Air Force Installation Energy Strategic Plan. Develops and tracks metrics to monitor energy goals and measure policy impacts on Air Force operations and readiness. Leadership assignments involve planning, and direction, of a variety of integrated energy programs.

Duty 2: Provides budget oversight and develops requirements to include Program Objective Memorandum (POM) submission, annual authorizations, and budget execution as it pertains to energy facilities engineering policy. Incumbent is responsible and accountable to the DAS (SAF/IEE) for developing analytical frameworks and providing oversight to support Air Force energy goals; executing DoW energy policies and mandates; and interfacing with the combatant commands (COCOMs), Defense Agencies (Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)/Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) and other Federal Agencies, providing the strategic focus and innovative leadership in the development, refinement and integration and implementation of the Air Force energy strategy across the Air Force.

Duty 3: Serves as an advisor to the DAS (SAF/IEE) on Installations energy policy and program requirement details and status of energy opportunities/impediments as they develop. Career broadening assignments will enhance leading change skills and core competencies to include conducting comprehensive assessments and evaluation of program goals and objectives which provide the basis for long range planning to enhance the organizations' management capabilities. Responsible for providing significant and innovative recommendations for advancing programs.

Duty 4: Serves as a member of various internal and external boards to include cross service, DoW, Secretariat, Air Staff, and other federal agencies that address the full spectrum of facility energy that address opportunities, challenges and produce cooperative solutions that support Air Force energy goals and objectives. Maintains liaison with professional associations and federal agencies e.g. Department of Energy, General Services Administration, etc. Participates in other associated meetings, seminars and conferences sponsored by the Air Force, Secretariat, OSD, other federal agencies and national/international energy programs. Reviews proposed legislation to assess potential impacts on the Department of Air Force energy programs and initiatives.

Duty 5: Attends meetings, seminars, and workshops to remain proficient on developments within the energy field. Maintains currency with advancements in energy technologies, industry energy practices, and academia. Establishes, develops, and maintains effective working relationships with organizations that interface with the SAF/IEE Installation Energy office. Performance standards: (1) Interactions with internal and external officials and/or customers are usually diplomatic, convincing, professional, and promote effective working relationships. (2) Routinely staff contemporaries and leadership are advised of developments/changes in the energy facilities engineering policy area.