Fire Protection Engineering

This position is a Fire Protection Engineer who provides direct project management, technical direction and program execution support to the National Airspace System field units. Reports directly to the Technical Operations, Technical Services Organization, Environmental Occupational Safety and Health (EOSH) Support Operations Group (EOSG), EOSH Program Support Center.

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The incumbent is a Fire Protection Engineer (FPE) who conducts fire life safety technical planning and oversight of facility fire protection systems. The FPE applies experience and comprehensive knowledge of fire protection engineering principles, theories, and concepts to develop implementation guidance to the field, identify inspection data trends, monitor construction projects for fire life safety impacts, conduct technical training, oversee all operational phases of the fire protection systems, and perform Contracting Officer Representative (COR) responsibilities.

Manages fire life safety construction projects, including scope, cost and schedule oversight using project scheduling software. Works independently and has direct responsibility for the quality of programs and recommendations. The FPE interacts with all levels of management, bargaining unit, and inspection personnel to provide guidance on fire protection and life safety. This position is critical for the safe and efficient operation of the National Airspace System.

Often represents FAA as a senior technical point of contact on projects, programs and other work activities. Applies knowledge and experience with life safety to analyze, organize, and independently prepare and deliver in-depth reports using strong business and analytic skills. Utilizes knowledge of the Agency to recommend improvements on fire protection systems, monitoring progress and developing metrics. Develops guidance on key risks.

Acts as a principal technical specialist in fire protection features including fire alarms, sprinklers, smoke management as well as emergency egress, standby generators, interim life safety procedures for impacted systems, fire extinguishers, maintenance operations, and system monitoring. Uses technical expertise to provide personnel with clear and concise advice and analysis on life safety requirements, identifying program priorities, goals and objectives. The incumbent maintains a general knowledge of the Occupational Safety and Health standards related to fire protection and general safety.

Develops plans, techniques, and policies to address current or anticipated problems and issues. Work is reviewed rarely, typically though status reports and at project completion, to ensure technical compliance and alignment with the requirements of the project or other work activity.

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Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.

Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelors 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: (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (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.

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. Professional registration or licensure Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1 , 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. Written Test Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 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. 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. 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 bachelors 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., To qualify for this position, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I, FG/GS-13. Specialized experience is: Experience in fire protection engineering principles, theories, and concepts to develop implementation guidance to the field, identify inspection data trends, monitor construction projects for fire life safety impacts, conduct technical training, and oversee all operational phases of the fire protection systems.

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Foreign education must be evaluated by a private professional organization specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials or an accredited U.The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days of entry on duty. FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviation-related companies.

Applications will be accepted from any U.S. citizen. The 'Rule of Three', Veterans Preference and traditional rating and ranking of applicants does not apply to this vacancy.

As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements. You may also be considered for this vacancy based on eligibility under the 30% or More Disabled Veteran Program, Veterans' Recruitment Appointment, and Persons with Disabilities/Persons with Targeted Disabilities. In addition, you must submit documentation that provides evidence of eligibility as indicated in the Required Documents section of the announcement.

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