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General Engineer
Agricultural Research Service · Posted 1 days ago
Hybrid Manhattan, KS $90K – $138K Apply by Jul 13, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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This position is located at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Plains Area (PA), National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, KS. In this position, you will work in the Engineering Project Management Group and be responsible for various functions involved in providing engineering expertise and managing contracts for maintenance, replacement and repair of systems and facilities.
What You'll Do
- →Serves as a project manager and Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) for all assigned projects.
- →Work various types of infrastructure maintained including offices, conference rooms, shipping facilities, biocontainment facilities (BSL-2, BSL-3E and BSL-4 laboratories, BSL3Ag and BSL4 animal housing, insectaries).
- →Determines efficient, effective, and feasible solutions to meet the project requirements and constraints.
- →Provides multi-disciplinary engineering resource and project support for facility operations including maintenance, repair, and construction of NBAF infrastructure for architectural, civil, electrical, and mechanical components.
- →Utilizes engineering and project management computer programs to develop and/or review performance work statements, design drawings (AutoCAD and Revit), specifications, and cost estimates (RS Mean).
- →Participate in the management of a comprehensive and up-to-date project management database that tracks all current and planned (5-year projections) repair, maintenance and construction activities of NBAF.
- →Manages and oversees A-E design services task orders to include plan/submittal reviews, payment evaluations, recommendations to the Contracting Officer (CO), and contractor evaluations.
- →Performs special studies as required including providing technical engineering recommendations on sensitive and controversial issues in coordination with the supervisor.
Requirements
- ✓Basic Requirements: Degree: Engineering.
- ✓OR 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: 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.
- ✓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.
- ✓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.) Additional Information: Due to the contagious nature to livestock of Foot-and-Mouth disease, and other diseases under study at NBAF, biosafety protocols specify a personal quarantine for employees working on specific infectious agents in designated areas of NBAF.
- ✓As a condition for employment, all personnel entering these areas at NBAF shall not be in contact with specific susceptible animals and their premises away from NBAF for a period of five (5) days after leaving the area.
- ✓Currently, restricted species are cattle, sheep, goats, deer, other ruminants, and swine.
- ✓Contact with horses, birds (agricultural and pet birds) and rabbits are normally permitted, but restrictions may be placed on staff working with or near infectious agents affecting these species.
- ✓Restricted livestock or other restricted animals may not be housed on the premises where the employee lives and where the quarantine cannot be enforced.
Personality Fit
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