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Supervisory General Engineer
Mine Safety and Health Administration · Posted 63 days ago
Hybrid Pittsburgh, PA $153K – $197K Apply by Aug 14, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ EngineeringOperations
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This position is with Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Technical Support, Mine Emergency Operations (MEO) Division. MSHA works to prevent death, illness and injury from mining; promote safe and healthful workplaces for U.S. miners. MSHA carries out the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act) as amended by the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response (MINER) Act of 2006.
What You'll Do
- →Provides engineering expertise and analyzes highly complex technical problems associated with mine emergencies, investigations, and while planning for mine emergency preparedness.
- →Advises the Director of Technical Support and other high-level Agency officials on a wide range of technical issues during a mine emergency and while maintaining mine emergency preparedness.
- →Provides national oversight and conducts internal audits of District preparedness, emergency equipment, training programs and mine emergency response plans.
- →Represents the Agency at national and international conferences and on committees relating to mine emergency regulations, policies, and procedures.
- →Plans, directs, and reviews the work of subordinate staff, comprised of engineers, scientists, and technical specialists.
- →Provides advice, counsel and/or instructions to individual employees on technical and administrative matters.
- →Coordinates MSHA mine emergency activities with State officials, labor representatives, and mine operators, as well as other equipment or service provider that may be on-site.
- →Identifies training needs and ensures that appropriate training is provided.
- →Develops, conducts, and critiques Mine Emergency Response Drills to simulate actual mine emergencies and provides evaluations and recommendations to appropriate Agency personnel and mine operators.
- →Provides advice on all aspects of mine explosion and fire related issues.
- →Disseminates complex technical, regulator and accident-related information to top Agency officials, field entities, mine operators, labor organizations, manufacturers, State Inspection agencies, other Federal Agencies, Congress, and the public.
- →Organizes and conducts open meetings, seminars, and symposiums to share information, improve communications, and develop relationships that will facilitate cooperation during the mine emergencies.
- →Directs the analysis, evaluation and testing of new systems, equipment and response techniques to further enhance emergency preparedness.
- →Periodically evaluates the effectiveness of the Office's efforts and programs, and institutes changes as necessary.
Requirements
- ✓You must meet the Basic Requirements to qualify for Supervisor General Engineer, as described below.
- ✓Transcripts must be submitted to verify education requirements.
- ✓Basic Requirement: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), 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) 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.
- ✓(The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.) Any applicant falsely claiming an academic degree from an accredited school will be subject to actions ranging from disqualification from federal employment to removal from federal service.
Personality Fit
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