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Electrical Engineer
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: This is an Electrical Engineer GS-0850-12 position for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Southwestern Division, Tulsa District, Tulsa, Oklahoma. For additional information on USACE Tulsa District click Here
What You'll Do
- →Serves as the lead technical authority for electrical quality assurance, performing reviews of contractor submittals including shop drawings, product data, and calculations for power distribution, lighting, fire alarm, and communication systems.
- →Conducts frequent site inspections and field investigations to verify construction of electrical systems comply with the approved design, identifying deficiencies and recommends corrective actions as the government's expert.
- →Acts as the primary troubleshooter for electrical issues in the field, serving as the lead consultant to construction personnel for resolving disputes and technical problems that arise on site.
- →Provides technical oversight of the electrical commissioning process, including witnessing functional performance tests and integrated systems testing to ensure all systems operate as intended prior to government acceptance.
- →As the electrical SME, performs BCOES reviews on final designs to identify risks and provide recommendations that improve the constructability, reliability, and maintainability of electrical systems.
- →Reviews and provides recommendations on value engineering proposals and contractor-initiated requests for information (RFIs) to ensure technical feasibility and compliance with project requirements.
- →Incumbent is responsible for the design of electrical features of work for construction of civil and/or military projects in the District.
- →Review directives, site plans, specifications, design criteria and other available data preparatory to the accomplishment of the electrical design and the preparation of design analyses.
- →Produce design packages utilizing electronic advertising accessible to construction contractors.
- →Perform Architect/Engineer (A/E) and peer reviews, reviews value engineering contractor proposals, and participates on value engineering study teams.
- →Conduct field investigations to study deficiencies in the operation of electrical equipment at construction projects.
- →Participate in pre-design conferences with customer representatives and higher authority for the purpose of determining applicable design criteria for proposed construction.
- →Closely coordinates electrical features with other design disciplines on each project to ensure that electrical designs are fully compatible with other engineering features of projects.
Requirements
- ✓Basic Requirements (for Engineers): 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 (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. 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.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/
Personality Fit
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