Engineering Technician

Duties

As an Engineering Technician, you will plan and coordinate engineering phases of planning for facilities operation and maintenance performed by construction contract, service contract, hired labor, or a combination of these methods. Your work will be related to a considerable number of different basic but established methods, procedures and techniques. You will serve as technical advisor on all operations, construction and maintenance activities at the project. In addition, duties will include planning and conducting technical engineering, construction inspection, and contract administration. Typical duties of the position include, but are not limited to:

• Writing contract specifications, including making quantity and cost estimates.
• Directing and conducting detailed inspection of operations, maintenance, and construction activities.
• Investigating and solving facility maintenance issues.
• Addressing issues relative to the operation and maintenance of project buildings and facilities.

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.  Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.  Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

 

Experience required:

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).  You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

 

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job.  Specialized experience is defined as performing at least 1 of the following 3 duties: 1) preparing contract specifications or Statements of Work; OR  2) performing assignments relative to the operation, repair, maintenance or construction of flood control structures; OR,  3) performing minor electrical, plumbing, and facility maintenance. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-05).

 

Time in Grade Requirement : Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower (GS-05) grade (or equivalent).

 

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency (knowledge, skills, abilities) in the following areas: