Supervisory General Engineer

Summary

The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. This position is located in the Reliability Engineering Branch (REB), Asset Management Division (AMD), Office of Facilities Management and Reliability (OFMR). OFMR provides reliability engineering and systems life cycle care responsibilities for all SI properties.

Duties

• The purpose of this position is to serve as the Branch Chief of the Reliability Engineering Branch (REB). The Reliability Engineering Branch consists of two groups: the Life Cycle Management Group and the Reliability Engineering Group. In this position, the incumbent: Directly supervises a group of engineers and a group of engineering technicians. Exercises the full range of first-level supervisory and managerial authorities, including assigning work, establishing and adjusting priorities, coordinating work across programs, evaluating performance, and supporting employee development. Directs the development of statements of work for program initiatives and oversees the execution of field studies, assessments, safety reviews, and audits conducted by staff and contractors. Reviews maintenance, renovation, and construction projects to assess reliability, asset life-cycle impacts, and total cost of ownership. Provides authoritative professional advice on maintenance, reliability, and asset life-cycle management issues. Serves as a consultant to management officials and design engineers on applicable Federal laws, regulations, directives, standards, and life-cycle cost principles. Prepares and delivers briefings and presentations on maintenance reliability and continuous improvement initiatives, including recommendations for action, resource allocation, and program improvements.

Key requirements

• Requires career/career-conditional status or eligibility.
• Males born after 12/31/59 must be registered with Selective Service.
• May be required to serve an 1 year probationary period for supervisors.

Qualifications

You must meet these Basic Education Requirements: (You must submit a copy of your transcript to show evidence of meeting this requirement in order to receive further consideration) 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)1 , 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)2 examination or any other written test required for professional 1 For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org. 2 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. 2 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.) In addition to the basic qualification requirement above: Experience: You qualify for this position if you have one year of specialized ex…

Education

There is Basic Education Requirements see above.