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General Engineer
Agricultural Research Service · Posted 2 days ago
Hybrid Manhattan, KS $106K – $138K Apply by Jul 1, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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This position is located in United States Department (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, Facilities Engineering, located in Manhattan, KS The position is located in the Engineering Project Management Group and the incumbent is 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
- →Provide support and engineering expertise in the management of NBAF systems, current/planned (5-yr projection), maintaining through super computers, the Building Information Management System including repair, maintenance and construction contracts.
- →Provides multi-disciplinary engineering expertise and project support for facility operations including maintenance, repair, and construction of NBAF infrastructure for architectural, civil, electrical, and mechanical components.
- →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).
- →Work with projects for complex facilities, utilities, roads, and grounds and a wastewater pre-treatment plant, and a central utility plant.
- →Serves as the Project Manager and Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) on contracted projects of high level dollar amounts.
- →In coordination with Supervisor, perform special studies as required including providing technical engineering recommendations on sensitive and controversial issues.
- →Utilize advanced engineering and project management computer programs to develop and review design drawings on AutoCAD and Revit, cost estimates using RS Means, specification writing, and performance work statements.
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 1For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org. 2The FE examination is not administered by the U.
- ✓Office of Personnel Management.
- ✓For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. 1 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.)
Personality Fit
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