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Electrical Engineer
Mine Safety and Health Administration · Posted today
About the Role
This position is with Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Technical Support, Electrical Safety Division. MSHA works to prevent death, illness and injury from mining; promote safe and healthful workplaces for U.S. miners. MSHA carries out the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act) as amended by the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response (MINER) Act of 2006.
What You'll Do
- →The responsibilities described are for the full performance level GS-12.
- →At developmental grade levels, assignments will be of more limited scope performed with less independence, and limited complexity.
- →Design complex test equipment for the evaluation of circuits which cannot be tested with standard test instruments and conduct appropriate tests in accordance with an investigation.
- →Conduct or direct in-house research to develop data to substantiate proposed revisions of safety standards and improve testing methods used to evaluate circuits.
- →Analyze new and revised drawings and specifications submitted by manufacturers, mining companies, and mine operators to determine if the proposed design or modification(s) meets the applicable regulations and standards to prevent a safety hazard or mine explosion.
- →Provide authoritative engineering/scientific expertise and services during fatal and serious non-fatal accidents and other non-emergency investigations.
- →Prepare thorough and technically sound reports, policies, procedures, and standards, for adoption based on findings.
- →Prepare written reports detailing test and inspection data, evaluation of the data, and recommendations for approval or rejection of equipment.
- →Represent the Division in meetings and consultations with MSHA officials, manufacturers' representatives, other government agencies, and other factions of the industry relative to the design, use and installation of electrical mining equipment and components.
Requirements
- ✓You must meet the Basic Requirements to qualify for Electrical Engineer, as described below.
- ✓Transcripts must be submitted.
- ✓Basic requirement is qualifying for the GS-5 level.
- ✓Basic Requirement: A.
- ✓Degree: Engineering.
- ✓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, Engineer in Training, or licensure as a Professional Engineer 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) 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. 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 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. 4.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 28686f13-4415-4269-9390-9495777b9ba8
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