GENERAL ENGINEER

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ASSESSMENT FACTORS 1. Prepares and delivers briefings to large diverse internal and external audiences on complex and/or controversial topics in a manner that is appropriate for the audience and consistent with policy and/or best business practices. 2. Analyzes key information and evaluates the effectiveness of alternative solutions, courses of action, and strategies needed to address complex, controversial, and multi-faceted issues. 3. Fosters a climate that embraces individual differences of perspective and respects a myriad values. 4. Establishes effective working relationships with senior leadership within the DIA and across the Intelligence Community to advance enterprise level goals and strategies. 5. Uses limited information to solve a variety of complex problems during a crisis situation. HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS 1. Demonstrates experience and familiarity with DoD or Intelligence Community planning, programming, budgeting system (PPBS), particularly related to programming for major construction. 2. Demonstrates servant leadership and genuine commitment to integrity, honestly, openness, and respect. 3. Monitors the completion of facility project tasks, ensuring the quality of work is performed and that resources are used effectively. A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's 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: (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. OR B. 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. 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)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. 2. 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 bachelor’s 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.) Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise. Additional Experience and Training Provisions for Graduates of Engineering Programs: a. Superior academic achievement at the baccalaureate level in an engineering program is qualifying for GS-7. b. A combination of superior academic achievement and 1 year of appropriate professional experience is qualifying at GS-9. c. Applicants with an engineering bachelor’s degree who have appropriate experience as a technician equivalent to grade GS-5 or higher may have such experience credited for grade GS-7 only on a month-for-month basis up to a maximum of 12 months. d. Successful completion of a 5-year program of study of at least 160 semester hours leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering is qualifying at GS-7. Completion of such a program and 1 year of appropriate professional experience is qualifying at grade GS-9 Graduate Education: 1. Regardless of the field of undergraduate study, completion of the requirements for a master’s or higher degree in engineering is fully qualifying for the grade indicated, provided the applicant’s total background, i.e., education and any experience, demonstrates evidence of knowledge, skills, and abilities that are substantially equivalent to those acquired through the successful completion of the courses specified in paragraph A. 2. With a bachelor’s degree in engineering, graduate education in a related field is acceptable in lieu of graduate study in engineering for appropriate types of positions. For example, a Bachelor of Science in engineering plus a master’s degree in business administration would be qualifying for Industrial Engineer, GS-9, but not for GS-9laboratory positions in research and development. The key consideration in determining if such graduate education should be credited is whether or not the education provided the knowledges, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the work of the position being filled. Occupations Covered by GG-800 Individual Requirements Occupation Title Series Number General Engineering Series GG-801 Safety Engineering Series GG-803 Fire Protection Engineering Series GG-804 Materials Engineering Series GG-806 Civil Engineering Series GG-810 Environmental Engineering Series GG-819 Mechanical Engineering Series GG-830 Nuclear Engineering Series GG-840 Electrical Engineering Series GG-850 Computer Engineering Series GG-854 Electronics Engineering Series GG-855 Biomedical Engineering Series GG-858 Aerospace Engineering Series GG-861 Naval Architecture Series GG-871 Mining Engineering Series GG-880 Petroleum Engineering Series GG-881 Agricultural Engineering Series GG-890 Ceramic Engineering Series GG-892 Chemical Engineering Series GG-893 Welding Engineering Series GG-894 Industrial Engineering Series GG-896