SUPERVISORY INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNITY PLANNER/GENERAL ENGINEER/ARCHITECT

Summary

You will serve as a SUPERVISORY PROJECT PLANNER - PDC3 CONUS in the Planning, Design & Construction (PDC) Directorate of NAVAL FAC ENGINEERING CMD WASH.

Responsibilities

You will serve as the technical expert for a variety of Navy project planning products and services.

You will support the PDC3 Director in effectively delivering community management and professional development in alignment with the PDC Community Management Plan.

You will render technical criteria or code decisions or recommendations for unique, complex situations that require technical solutions, mitigation strategies, or alternatives.

You will demonstrate expert knowledge of relevant systems and instructions, such as the Shore Facility Planning System.

You will plan work to be accomplished by subordinates, set and adjust short-term priorities, evaluate subordinates’ work performance, and resolve personnel issues.

Qualifications

This position has a selective placement factor that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates. The selective placement factor is: You must currently be a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) for the 0801 series, currently be a Registered Architect (RA) for the 0808 series, or currently have an American Institute of Certified Planner (AICP) certification via the American Planning Association (APA) for the 0020 series. Your license or registration must be held in a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States. NOTE: YOU MUST INCLUDE A COPY OF YOUR CURRENT LICENCE OR REGISTRATION WITH YOUR APPLICATION PACKAGE. *A copy of a wall certificate that does not show your current status will not suffice to meet this requirement.* In addition to the Basic Education Requirements and Selective Placement Factor, 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) Using Navy Shore Planning Systems and automated databases to develop facilities requirements and capture, analyze, and manage facilities and planning spatial/geographic data to support facilities and master planning; 2) Performing, coordinating, directing, and providing administration of site planning, site development, building design, environmental impacts/constraints, economic analyses, special facility studies (skills in using ArcGIS & AutoCAD), project concepts development, cultural resources, design-bid-build, and design-build bid documents; 3) Preparing project documentation (DD 1391) that includes project scope, cost estimates, and supporting documentation; 4) Preparing A-E scopes of work, preparing Government estimates for the various phases of work, assisting in the negotiation of A-E contracts, and evaluating A-E performances for accuracy, adequacy, completeness, and conformity with the contract and customer requirements; and 5) Leading multi-functional teams as the project scope is identified and implemented, and balancing multiple projects and priorities. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0000/community-planning-series-0020/ https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/architecture-series-0808/ 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 OPM Qualifications Standards Manual: 0020 SERIES: Successful completion of a community planning degree; or related field such as urban affairs, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, sociology, geography, economics, political science, or public administration that included at least 12 semester hours in the planning process, socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, urban and regional economic analysis, and development finance OR Have a combination of education and experience where I have successfully completed a community planning degree, or a degree in a related discipline such as urban affairs, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, sociology, geography, economics, political science, or public administration and have one (1) year of work experience in community planning acquired under the supervision and guidance of a community planner OR Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in one of the above disciplines, or a combination of related courses totaling at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the above disciplines of which at least 12 semester hours were in the planning process, and socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, plus appropriate experience or additional education. 0801 SERIES: 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: http://www.nspe.org 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: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. 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. 0808 SERIES: Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher degree in architecture OR Bachelor's or higher degree in a field related to architecture that included 60 semester hours of course work in architecture or related disciplines of which at least (1) 30 semester hours were in architectural design, and (2) 6 semester hours were in each of the following: structural technology, properties of materials and methods of construction, and environmental control systems OR Combination of college education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) thorough knowledge of the arts and sciences underlying professional architecture, and (2) a understanding of theoretical and practical architectural principles, methods, and techniques and their applications to the design and construction or improvement of buildings. Your degree in either architecture or architectural engineering covers function, esthetics, site, structure, economics, mechanical-electrical, and other engineering problems related to the design and construction of buildings primarily (but not exclusively) intended to house human activities OR you lack a degree in architecture, but you have 1 year of experience in an architect's office or in architectural work for each year short of graduation from a program of study in architecture that demonstrates that you have acquired a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles and theories of professional architecture. (Note - In the absence of college courses, 5 years of such experience is required).