Research General Engineer, GS-0801-12/13
As a Research General Engineer, you will serve as a member of, and leads, R&D Center project teams in conducting all phases of applied research projects. The projects typically evaluate and seek to improve suitability and effectiveness of various technologies to support operational Coast Guard missions. Assignments involve applying available technologies and basic management principles to manned and unmanned aircraft systems, wide area surveillance systems, aviation-related search and rescue capability, and persistent, strategic maritime domain awareness. Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include:
Conceiving, evaluating, justifying, planning and executing applied research projects. Developing products that improve the operational effectiveness of Coast Guard aviation platforms and systems. Serving as a consultant and technical procurement expert to senior management in the procurement and oversight of major aviation-related assets (hardware, software, platforms, and services). Applying analytical processes to the planning, design, and implementation of new and improved avionics platforms and systems to meet the business and operational requirements of customer organizations. Identifying and evaluating new technologies, systems and/or techniques to address aviation platform technology and/or procedural shortfalls. Evaluating the capability of current aviation platform systems to meet standards. Reviewing directives, policies, programs, enterprise-wide functional user requirements and acquisition strategies/vehicles for program related issues to determine the impact and implications in supporting avionics systems. Performing resource management control including procuring IT equipment or services necessary for project execution. Serving as the leader or as a member of a field party charged with the evaluation, collection, and analysis of avionics platform data.
Qualifications:
Basic Requirements:
Degree:
Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must:
(1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; 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 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), 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) 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. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's 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.) Additional Requirements For the GS-13:
Applicants must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 in the Federal Service. 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. Examples of specialized experience include:
Applying analytical processes to the planning, design, and implementation of new and improved avionics systems to meet the business requirements of customer organizations; Evaluating the capabilities of current systems and/or new technologies, noting their shortfalls; Performing resource management control including procuring equipment or services necessary for project execution; and Reviewing directives, policies, programs, enterprise-wide functional user requirements and acquisition strategies/vehicles for program related issues to determine the impact and implications in supporting avionics systems. For the GS-12:
Applicants must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 in the Federal Service. 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. Examples of specialized experience include:
Working with higher graded specialists to apply analytical processes to the planning, design, and implementation of new and improved avionics systems; Researching the procurement of avionics platforms and systems to support project objectives; Analyzing and evaluate the engineering aspects of complex, technologically advanced avionics platforms and systems;and Recommending solutions to technical or programmatic problems by applying knowledge of a wide range of engineering principles, practices and techniques. 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.The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Conceiving, evaluating, justifying, planning and executing applied research projects. Developing products that improve the operational effectiveness of Coast Guard aviation platforms and systems. Serving as a consultant and technical procurement expert to senior management in the procurement and oversight of major aviation-related assets (hardware, software, platforms, and services). Applying analytical processes to the planning, design, and implementation of new and improved avionics platforms and systems to meet the business and operational requirements of customer organizations. Identifying and evaluating new technologies, systems and/or techniques to address aviation platform technology and/or procedural shortfalls. Evaluating the capability of current aviation platform systems to meet standards. Reviewing directives, policies, programs, enterprise-wide functional user requirements and acquisition strategies/vehicles for program related issues to determine the impact and implications in supporting avionics systems. Performing resource management control including procuring IT equipment or services necessary for project execution. Serving as the leader or as a member of a field party charged with the evaluation, collection, and analysis of avionics platform data.
Qualifications:
Basic Requirements:
Degree:
Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must:
(1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; 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 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), 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) 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. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's 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.) Additional Requirements For the GS-13:
Applicants must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 in the Federal Service. 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. Examples of specialized experience include:
Applying analytical processes to the planning, design, and implementation of new and improved avionics systems to meet the business requirements of customer organizations; Evaluating the capabilities of current systems and/or new technologies, noting their shortfalls; Performing resource management control including procuring equipment or services necessary for project execution; and Reviewing directives, policies, programs, enterprise-wide functional user requirements and acquisition strategies/vehicles for program related issues to determine the impact and implications in supporting avionics systems. For the GS-12:
Applicants must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 in the Federal Service. 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. Examples of specialized experience include:
Working with higher graded specialists to apply analytical processes to the planning, design, and implementation of new and improved avionics systems; Researching the procurement of avionics platforms and systems to support project objectives; Analyzing and evaluate the engineering aspects of complex, technologically advanced avionics platforms and systems;and Recommending solutions to technical or programmatic problems by applying knowledge of a wide range of engineering principles, practices and techniques. 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.The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.
- Department:
0801 General Engineering - Salary Range:
$83,108 to $128,472 per year
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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