U.S. Coast Guard
2 vacancy – Oakland, CA
Opened Thursday 3/31/2016 (4 day(s) ago)
Closes Wednesday 4/20/2016 (16 day(s) away)
Salary Range: $84,302.00 to $109,592.00 / Per Year
Job Description
Apply for this exciting position
to support the CG missions of safeguarding our Nation’s maritime
interests in the heartland, in the ports, at sea, and around the globe.
For over two centuries the The U.S. Coast Guard
has protected the maritime economy and the environment, we defend our
maritime borders, and we save those in peril. This history has forged
our character and purpose as America’s Maritime Guardian – Always Ready
for all hazards and all threats.
The vacancy is being
concurrently advertised under merit promotion procedures for status
applicants under announcement 16-1427-WE-RC-M. APPLICANTS WISHING TO BE
CONSIDERED UNDER BOTH DELEGATED EXAMINING AND MERIT PROMOTION PROCEDURES
MUST APPLY TO BOTH VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENTS. NOTE: YOUR APPLICATION TO
THIS DELEGATED EXAMINING VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT WILL ONLY ALLOW
CONSIDERATION FOR THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. WE CANNOT ELECTRONICALLY OR
MANUALLY MOVE YOUR APPLICATION TO THE CONCURRENTLY ADVERTISED MERIT
PROMOTION ANNOUNCEMENT. PLEASE ENSURE YOU ARE APPLYING UNDER THE CORRECT
ANNOUNCEMENT.
This position is located in the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Coast Guard, Deputy Commandant for Mission
Support (CG-DCMS), Assistant Commandant for Engineering and Logistics,
Office of Civil Engineering, Shore Infrastructure Logistics Center
(SILC), Civil Engineering Unit Oakland, in Oakland, CA.
Duties
The incumbent will serve as a
professional Environmental Engineer for Coast Guard environmental
programs encompassing environmental compliance, environmental
restoration, environmental liabilities, environmental planning and
environmental sustainment, responsible for effectively and efficiently
assessing environmental impacts associated with construction projects
and coordinating with regulatory and resource agencies to assure
compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act, Department of
Homeland Security/Coast Guard policies and instructions, and Federal,
State and local statutory and regulatory environmental
management/compliance requirements.
Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include:
- Identifying
studies and actions that require contractor support, preparing scopes
of work and specifications, preparing independent government estimates,
evaluating proposals and preparing technical analyses and monitoring
contractor performance. - Executing and managing the environmental
compliance, restoration and environmental liabilities, environmental
planning and sustainment, and environmental stewardship programs. - Participating in environmental audits, hazardous waste management surveys, EMS audits, and similar compliance assessments.
- Reviewing
program and project documents such as master plans, studies and plans,
and specifications for adherence to environmental regulations, pollution
prevention standards and sustainment, and stewardship best practices. - Providing
technical guidance, interpreting regulations and policy requirements,
and providing training on procedures and best practices for general and
specific compliance with laws, regulations and policy in the broad
environmental program categories of clean air, clean water, waste water,
hazardous materials, hazardous waste, cultural resources, historic
resources, natural resources, petroleum oil and lubricants (POL), solid
waste, storage tanks, toxic substances, National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA), environmental noise, pollution prevention (P2) and
environmental management systems (EMS).
Qualifications
BASIC REQUIREMENTS:
Degree: professional engineering.
To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of
engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation
Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional
engineering curriculum; or (2) include differential and integral
calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and
chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science
or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials
(stress-strain relationships); © fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d)
thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and
properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to
properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental
engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil
mechanics, or electronics.
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 professional
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 –
Current registration as a professional engineer 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 Engineer-in-Training (EIT)
examination, or the written test required for professional registration,
which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners in the
various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
Applicants
who have passed the EIT examination and have completed all the
requirements for either (a) a bachelor’s degree in engineering
technology (BET) from an accredited college of university that included
60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and
engineering sciences, or (b) a BET from a program accredited by the
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) may be rated
eligible for certain engineering positions at GS-5. Eligibility is
limited to positions that are within or closely related to the specialty
field of the engineering technology program. Applicants for positions
that involve highly technical research, development, or similar
functions requiring an advanced level of competence in basic science
must meet the basic requirements in paragraph A.
Because of the
diversity in kind and quality of BET programs, graduates of other BET
programs are required to complete at least 1 year of additional
education or highly technical work experience of such nature as to
provide reasonable assurance of the possession of the knowledge, skills,
and abilities required for professional engineering competence. The
adequacy of this background must be demonstrated by passing the EIT
examination.
- Specified academic courses
– Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in
the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering
that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. The
courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a
professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph A. - Related curriculum –
Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor’s degree in
engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g.,
physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics,
hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in
engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of
professional engineering experience acquired under professional
engineering supervision and guidance. 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.)
In addition to meeting the basic requirements above, applicants must have:
AT THE GS-12:
Applicants must possess at least one year of specialized experience
equivalent to the GS-11 level in the Federal service. Performing
environmental restoration management and site work; coordinating and
conducting site investigations and remediation strategies and
determining feasibility of alternative remediation procedures; managing
individual contract actions associated with environmental restoration;
providing expertise for a variety of in-water and shore side
environmental restoration activities; providing environmental compliance
support for projects to ensure conformance with applicable Federal,
state and local environmental regulations and guidance; and providing
environmental planning support on operational activities.
Specialized
experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular
ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this
position and is typically in or related to this line of work.
National
Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): Experience refers to
paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through
National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other
organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual;
community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical
competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training
and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will
receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer
experience.
This position does have a
positive education requirement. If you are including education on your
resume, report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by
accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of
Education.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign
colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must
show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least
equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is
your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. For further
information on the evaluation of foreign education, refer to the U.S.
Department of Education’s web site at
All qualification
requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.
Water Resources and Policy Initiatives (WRPI) 