Supervisory General Engineer

About the Position

Works under the general direction of the Directorate of Public Works (DPW), who holds incumbent responsible for planning, programming and directing the mission of the Division. Who May Apply: US Citizens.

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your résumé must clearly describe your relevant experience; in addition, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is available.

Basic Requirements for Supervisory General Engineer

1. Degree: Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must:
   • Lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET);
   • OR 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:
     • Statics, dynamics;
     • Strength of materials (stress–strain relationships);
     • Fluid mechanics, hydraulics;
     • Thermodynamics;
     • Electrical fields and circuits;
     • Nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties);
     • Any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
2. Combination of Education and Experience: College‑level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and 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 the registration.
   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, or Puerto Rico.
   3. 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
   4. 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 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.

Qualification Requirements

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: (1) performing master planning and real estate management services for a large installation; and (2) administrative functions impacted by real property master planning, real estate management, major construction, and/or facility space management. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS‑12). For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone—no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS‑12).