CIVIL ENGINEER

Summary
OREGON AIR NATIONAL GUARD

NATIONWIDE TECHNICIAN VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

For more information on the Oregon National Guard please visit:

Oregon Military Department

OREGON NATIONAL GUARD CORE VALUES:

Character, Confidence, Courage, Commitment (CCCC)

OREGON NATIONAL GUARD VISION:

Oregon National Guard will provide the citizens of the State of Oregon and the United States with the ready force of citizen soldiers and airman, equipped and trained to respond to any contingency natural or manmade. When we are needed, we are there.

CIVIL ENGINEER

142 FW

Portland, OR United States 1 vacancy

Appointment Type:
Excepted Service Permanent

Official Position Description #: D1551000

Series/Grade:
GS-0810-12/12

Salary Range:
$76,489.00-$99,439.00

*Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance*

*Candidates must have a valid state driver’s license*

*PCS is not Authorized*

MEMBERSHIP IN THE NATIONAL GUARD IS REQUIRED:
This is an Excepted Service position that requires membership in the Oregon National Guard as a condition of employment. Selectee will be required to wear the military uniform. Acceptance of an Excepted Service position constitutes concurrence with these requirements as a condition of employment. Unit of military assignment is any supporting unit of 142 FW. Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program. Acceptance of a permanent or indefinite position with the Oregon National Guard will cause termination from any Guard Recruitment Bonus or Guard paid student loan. A law enforcement background check may be required prior to appointment to this position. By submitting a resume or application for this position, you authorize this agency to accomplish the check. This is a dual-status position and membership in the Oregon National Guard is required. By submitting this application you are affirming to the validity of the information you have provided.

AREAS OF CONSIDERATION:

1st Area:
Current permanent full time support personnel of the Oregon Air National Guard (ANG)

2nd Area:
All members of the Oregon Air National Guard (ANG)

3rd Area:
Individuals in the Active Duty Air Force, Air Force Reserve, or Air Force National Guard who have held/hold the AFSC and are eligible to meet the military requirements for membership in the Oregon (AFNG). Individuals eligible to meet the military requirements for membership in the (ANG) Application materials must be received in our office by Monday, May 22, 2017.
Failure to provide complete information may result in your not receiving consideration for this position.
Please refer to the Qualifications and Evaluations section to understand the qualification requirements, and How To Apply Section for detailed instruction on applying.

Duties
INTRODUCTORY:

This position is located in the ANG Base Engineering Division. May assume the duties of the Base Architect/ Engineer in his/her absence. Provides supervisory and technical assistance to the Base Architect/Engineer in overseeing and managing the engineering shop to include providing guidance on engineering standards and code requirements. Provides guidance to these sections on standard and code requirements. Provides guidance to these sections on standard and code requirements. Develops engineered solutions to technical problems, which are incapable of being resolved by subordinates. Typical problems require the need to perform extensive mathematical and technical calculations in engineering to include civil, mechanical, electrical, or general engineering as well as architecture. This position requires military membership. It is designated for National Guard officer incumbency only. The incumbent provides subordinate guidance and team leadership to Non-Dual Status and Dual Status employees. Incumbent performs planning development necessary to accomplish architecture and engineering functions for programs essential to state Air National Guard daily operations, training, and readiness missions. Fosters an environment conducive to teaming among service providers and customers to meet state Air National Guard requirements.

MAJOR DUTIES:

1. Responsible for the acquisition, construction, maintenance, repair, and operating of real property facilities, and provides related management, engineering, and other support work. Specifically, this includes (a) acquisition, accountability, and disposal of real estate; (b) planning and programming of total requirements for the maintenance, repair, and construction of facilities including financial management of facility programs; (c) provision of basic utility services; (d) maintenance and repair of structures and associated equipment.

2. Exercises authority in planning, directing, controlling and coordinating architectural or engineering activities. Directs total operations through subordinate civilian supervisory and non-supervisory personnel. Plans, schedules and assigns work; establishes and monitors internal controls; and ensures uniform application of regulations, policies, directives, and professional engineering practices. Considers a variety of elements in determining funds available, contour of land, soil condition, weather and its effect upon building material, new engineering concepts, USAF Guides, etc.

3. Utilizes program and planning documents in determining real property facility requirements for programmed units and activities within the installation. Accomplishes long and short range planning for replacement of facilities or equipment including contingency operations for potential war or domestic emergency conditions. Oversees development and time phasing of operations and maintenance of real property facility and construction programs to ensure assimilation into the overall installation program. Responsible for implementation of the “total programming” concept for maintenance, repair, and construction of facilities. Advises on and reprograms activities to meet changes in mission and/or objectives requiring Commanders/ Base Civil Engineers decision on phasing of specific activities and/or coordination with other activities.

4. Represents the Base Architect/Engineer at meetings and conferences with HQ ANG and intermediate command staff, Commanders and staff representatives of tenant organizations, Division and District Engineer representatives of the Corps of Engineers and Naval Facilities Engineering Command, metropolitan airports commission staff; FAA, Veterans Administration, highway department representatives; Federal, states, and city Environmental Protection Agency representatives. Coordinates on plans, exchanges information, recommends policy or procedures and keeps apprised of new architecture and engineering developments. Makes decisions in line with prior ANG Base policy and planning, such as priority of new construction, acceptance of completed work, facility disposal, real estate acquisition, utilization, or disposal actions.

*The above description only mentions a limited amount of the position’s official duties. For a full comprehensive document that covers all the duties of the position, please contact one of the Recruitment Specialist at the bottom of the announcement.

Travel Required

• Occasional Travel
• For job training and organization mission requirements.

Relocation Authorized

• No

Job Requirements
Job Requirements
Key Requirements

• Must maintain membership in the ORANG as a condition of employment.
• You must be assigned to a compatible unit and military duty position.
• Announcement open to Officers only.
• AFSC: 32EX
• Applicants who do not possess compatible AFSC(s), will still be considered

Qualifications
GENERAL EXPERIENCE:

Civil Engineers are responsible for management, supervision or performance of (1) planning, designing, construction, and/or maintaining structures and facilities; (2) investigating, measuring, surveying and mapping the earth’s physical features; and (3) research and development activities pertaining to the above.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:

Applicants applying at the GS-12 level must have at least
12 months
of general and specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade.

Minimum Education 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); (c) 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:

Education Requirements Continued:

–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.

–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.

–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.

Substitution of Education for Specialized Experience:

None to list for this position.

SUPPLEMENTAL QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

—If any supplemental documentation for education or certifications are required it will be listed here.

—If the position requires a driver’s license, applicant will be expected to obtain and maintain a satisfactory State of Oregon Driver’s License. Driver’s licenses from other states will be accepted pending they are recognized by the State of Oregon DMV and adhere to National Guard Technician Personnel Regulations.

–If position requires security clearance. Individuals must currently possess or obtain and maintain a satisfactory Secret or Top Secret Security Clearance in accordance with position requirements.

–Applicants are subject to Police Record Check. Applicants can pre-emptively fill out the PDF form below at the link.

http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/forms/forminfo/forminfopage84.html

On the Police Records Check Form DD-369 please fill out sections 2 through 9, must sign block 11, and leave line 10 blank. Once complete please upload along with application packet.

Security Clearance
Secret