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General Engineer (Recent Graduate)
Department of Energy Headquarters · Posted today
On-site Germantown, MD $71K – $111K Apply by Oct 12, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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This position is part of the Office of Nuclear Energy - Headquarters, Department of Energy. The Recent Graduates Program is a dynamic, one-year developmental program that promotes careers in the Federal Government to recent graduates. Recent Graduates who successfully complete Program requirements may be eligible for non-competitive conversion to a term or permanent position in the civil service.
What You'll Do
- →Nuclear energy is one of the most resilient, environmentally sustainable, and reliable energy sources on the grid today.
- →The Office of Nuclear Energy works to advance nuclear energy science and technology to meet the nation's energy, environmental, and economic needs.
- →As a GS-9 General Engineer (Recent Graduate) you will: Support program management for the NASA Strategic Partnership Program by developing scopes, budgets, schedules, and milestones for Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS).
- →Perform engineering analyses, evaluate technical proposals for nuclear infrastructure initiatives, and assist senior engineers on complex Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) projects.
- →Review and evaluate engineering plans, specifications, inter-agency agreements (IAAs), and memoranda of understanding (MOUs) to resolve discrepancies and ensure technical accuracy.
- →Participate in interagency and international working groups-coordinating among DOE headquarters, national laboratories, NASA, and field elements and prepare regular technical status reports.
- →As a GS-11 General Engineer (Recent Graduate) you will: Serve as technical specialist managing the NASA Strategic Partnership Program-establishing scopes, budgets, schedules, milestones, and procurement packages to support Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS).
- →Analyze engineering requirements, evaluate new proposals for nuclear infrastructure initiatives, and resolve difficult technical challenges related to Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs).
- →Manage and review inter-agency agreements (IAAs), memoranda of understanding (MOUs), and technical policies, resolving conflicting requirements across engineering disciplines to maintain project alignment.
- →Represent the program office in domestic and international working groups (e.g., US-UK working groups), coordinate across DOE labs and NASA, and present technical status reports to diverse audiences.
- →CONVERSION REQUIREMENTS: DOE has the option to non-competitively convert a Recent Graduate to a permanent or term position upon successful completion of program requirements.
- →This is not automatic, nor guaranteed.
- →Conversion is at the discretion of the hiring manager and employing office.
- →To be eligible to be converted to a permanent or term position you must: Be a US Citizen or National Be recommended for conversion by your manager or supervisor.
Requirements
- ✓REMINDER: Submit transcripts for all degrees earned.
- ✓You must meet the following Basic Education Requirement listed below in order to qualify for the 0801 series: 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.
- ✓What types of programs would meet the eligibility criteria for a qualifying career or technical education program?
- ✓What is a Federally administered career or technical education program?
- ✓Programmatic oversight may be reflected in partnership or cooperative agreements.
Personality Fit
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