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Petroleum Engineer
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
The Bureau of Safety & Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) works to promote safety, protect the environment, and conserve resources offshore through vigorous regulatory oversight and enforcement. For information about our bureau go to: http://www.bsee.gov/
What You'll Do
- →This position is located within the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), Gulf of America Region (GOAR), District Field Office, within various District Offices in Houma, LA, Lake Charles, LA, Lafayette, LA, Angleton, TX and Jefferson, LA.
- →At the full performance level (GS-12) the major duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following: 1.
- →Review oil, gas, and Sulphur operations' applications for permit to drill, applications for Permit to Modify (APMs), End of Operations Reports (EORs) and Well Activities Reports (WARs), etc. for correctness and compliance. 2.
- →Conduct engineering analysis of drilling, and workover equipment and operations on the Outer Continental Shelf and prepares engineering reports.
- →Reviews and analyzes inspection reports prepared by others to compile statistics and trends of inspection results to identify areas for closer study. 3.
- →Collaborates with supervisor, plan, and schedule inspections of the full range of offshore facilities, including those with a record of safety violations or with new, modified, and advanced facilities, systems or components with no inspection precedents.
- →Works with other district engineers to develop strategies for inspections. 4.
- →Conduct inspections as a team leader involving the full range of operations such as drilling, workover/completion, plugging and abandonment, environmental quality, hydrogen sulfide operations and activities on the OCS. 5.
- →Conducts or leads investigations of accidents involving offshore facilities or operations, including major, unusual, or unprecedented in nature involving fires or explosions or severe disasters involving violations of law. 6.
- →Conducts reviews of Incidents of Non-Compliance (INCs) for the purpose of recommending compliance reviews for possible civil penalties.
- →Initiate compliance reviews and drafts reports. 7.
- →Resolves and completes inspections involving issues, referred by lower-level inspectors or engineers for which findings and decisions may serve as technical references or precedents and become the basis for regional and/or headquarters procedural or regulatory changes.
- →Testifies at judicial hearings involving criminal penalties and sanctions Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.
- →The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for telework only during an emergency or natural disaster.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓You will be subject to a background/suitability investigation/determination.
- ✓You will be required to have federal payments made by Direct Deposit.
- ✓You must submit ALL required documents and complete any required questionnaires.
- ✓Selective Service: If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service system, or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law.
- ✓You will be required to complete a Financial Disclosure Form within 30 days of your appointment.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 year probationary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest will be evaluated.
- ✓This probationary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized.
- ✓In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓Education: If this position requires specific educational course work to qualify, or you are qualifying based in whole or part on education, you are required to provide transcripts as proof of meeting the requirements.
- ✓Foreign Education: Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the specific educational requirements as stated above.
Personality Fit
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