{"id":45090,"date":"2022-02-02T13:23:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=45090"},"modified":"2022-02-02T13:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:23:19","slug":"job-interdisciplinary-environmental-engineer-physical-scientist-department-of-agriculture-chelan-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/job-interdisciplinary-environmental-engineer-physical-scientist-department-of-agriculture-chelan-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"Job: Interdisciplinary Environmental Engineer\/Physical Scientist, Department of Agriculture (Chelan, WA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><strong>For more information, please follow this link:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usajobs.gov\/job\/632318600\">https:\/\/www.usajobs.gov\/job\/632318600<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Salary-<\/strong> $79,363 &#8211; $103,176 per year<\/p>\n<div id=\"duties\" class=\"usajobs-joa-section usajobs-joa-section-beta usajobs-joa-accordion-overview\">\n<h2 class=\"usajobs-joa-section--pilot__header usajobs-joa-section--beta__header\">Duties<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"usajobs-list-bullets\">\n<li>Works with the On Scene Coordinator on mining related Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act response actions, meeting clean-up requirements, legal obligations and ensuring human health and environmental protection.<\/li>\n<li>Represents the Forest Service with the public, Federal, Tribal, and State agencies.<\/li>\n<li>Represents the Forest Service and serves as the primary contact with Potentially Responsible Parties (PRPs).<\/li>\n<li>Manages contracts with external vendors including writing statements of work, evaluating technical reports and proposals, and serving as a Contracting Officer?s Representative.<\/li>\n<li>Resolves key technical issues in a timely manner, generates or oversees development of technical products of superior quality, and ensures decisions are scientifically sound and consistent with the National Contingency Plan (NCP).<\/li>\n<li>Develops reclamation plans for mining impacted hazardous waste sites by incorporating appropriate land reclamation techniques which rely on understanding soil science, geomorphology, hydrology, revegetation, and wildlife habitat development.<\/li>\n<li>Responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of the remedial designs\/actions and maintaining schedules to meet legal requirements and agency objectives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"usajobs-joa-section--pilot__header usajobs-joa-section--beta__header\">Requirements<\/h2>\n<h3>Conditions of Employment<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"usajobs-list-bullets\">\n<li>Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.<\/li>\n<li>Males born after 12\/31\/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.<\/li>\n<li>Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and\/or fingerprint check.<\/li>\n<li>Successful completion of one year probationary period, unless previously served.<\/li>\n<li>Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.<\/li>\n<li>Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov<\/li>\n<li>Position requires On Scene Coordinator certification and Contracting Officer?s Representative Level II certification within one year upon entry into the position.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"qualifications\">\n<h3>Qualifications<\/h3>\n<div>In order to qualify, you must meet the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usajobs.gov\/Help\/faq\/application\/eligibility\/difference-from-qualifications\/\">eligibility<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usajobs.gov\/Help\/faq\/application\/eligibility\/difference-from-qualifications\/\">qualifications<\/a> requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/policy-data-oversight\/classification-qualifications\/general-schedule-qualification-standards\/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series\">Office of Personnel Management&#8217;s General Schedule Qualification Standards.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary.<\/p>\n<p>This is an interdisciplinary position and may be filled in either the 0819 or 1301 of the job series :<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the GS-12 level:<\/strong> You must have one year specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in the Federal service. Qualifying specialized experience include meeting one or more of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assisted with providing project oversight for environmental compliance, abandoned mine or other hazardous substance cleanup.<\/li>\n<li>Assisted with analyzing a variety of environmental issues for hazardous waste cleanup or mine reclamation projects, and designed improvements or recommended solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Monitored work of contractors by reviewing progress and verifying fulfillment of obligations on moderately complex environmental engineering or physical science projects, and providing technical assistance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your resume must clearly document the following for each block of work experience; the beginning day, month and year the work assignment started and ended; the hours worked per week; position title, and series and grade if applicable; and description of duties performed. This information must be provided for each permanent, temporary, or seasonal appointment\/work assignment or volunteer work and should be clearly documented as a separate block of time. Incomplete, inaccurate, or conflicting work history may not be credited for qualifications purposes. This can result in an applicant not being considered for the position.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT:<\/strong> If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<p><strong>In addition to meeting the Specialized Experience requirement, you must also possess the following basic education.<\/p>\n<p>Basic Requirement for Environmental Engineering Series 0819:<\/strong><br \/>\nDegree: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor&#8217;s or higher degree that included a major field of study in 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;<\/p>\n<p><strong>OR <\/strong>Combination of education and experience &#8212; 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:<\/p>\n<p>Professional registration &#8212; 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&#8217;s eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.<\/p>\n<p>Written Test &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants who have passed the EIT examination and have completed all the requirements for either (a) a bachelor&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Specified academic courses &#8212; 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 for a degree.<\/p>\n<p>Related curriculum &#8212; Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor&#8217;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.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Basic Requirement for General Physical Science Series 1301:<\/strong><br \/>\nDegree: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor&#8217;s or higher degree that included a major field of study in: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and\/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics;<\/p>\n<p><strong>OR <\/strong>Combination of education and experience &#8212; education equivalent to one of the majors shown above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and\/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9433,"featured_media":34097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[15],"tags":[4,28,33,141,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45091,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45090\/revisions\/45091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}