Environmental Engineer

2 months ago

Rockville, Maryland, United States USAJobs Full time
Duties

The successful candidate will perform duties in the full range of environmental engineering topics such as environmental geochemistry, environmental geology, surface and subsurface hydrology, and related natural processes important to environmental radionuclide fate and transport or facility safety that arise within the design or operation of commercial nuclear facilities. Serving as an Environmental Engineer in the Division of Risk Analysis, Fire and External Hazards Branch with responsibility for the planning, recommending, and coordinating research projects for improving capability to model (predict and assess) impacts on the biosphere from groundwater or surface water interaction with radioactive materials released from NRC licensed activities and impacts of nuclear facilities from extreme storm events. Contributing to the development of NRC research program to develop and validate geochemical, geologic, surface and subsurface hydrologic modeling and data used in long-term performance assessment calculations. In addition, such duties include but are not limited to:
Planning and developing research projects that will provide technical information responsive to needs of NRC functional offices. Designing and coordinating research projects in environmental engineering topics such as hydrogeology, hydrology, or hydrometeorology which are undertaken to meet the regulatory needs of the NRC functional offices. Functioning as an advisory and technical expert in the environmental engineering fields of environmental geochemistry, environmental geology, surface and subsurface hydrology, for research tasks. Organizing and leading technical reviews of contracted research. Maintains close scrutiny of operational and equipment costs of assigned research contracts and approves costing. Representing the office in meetings with other technical managers of NRC, other Federal and state agencies, the engineering/scientific community, and industrial organizations in the area of environmental transport and performance assessment.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment
  • This is a Drug Testing position.
  • U.S. Citizenship Required
  • Background investigation leading to a clearance is required for new hires

    You must meet the qualifications for this position by no later than 30 calendar days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position.

    Qualifications

    In order to qualify for this position, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

    The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the design and operation of commercial nuclear facilities (e.g., nuclear power plants, non-power reactors, fuel cycle, spent fuel management and disposal, radioactive waste management and disposal, decommissioning sites, etc.).
    (EXAMPLE: Describe your education, training and experience you have related to engineering (environmental, nuclear, mechanical, electrical, chemical,) or similar natural sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry). Describe your experience related to the following: (1) research, engineering and analysis or inspection experience involving design or operation of commercial nuclear facilities; (2) environmental engineering topics such as environmental geochemistry, environmental geology, surface and subsurface hydrology, and related natural processes important to environmental radionuclide fate and transport or facility safety that arise within the design or operation of commercial nuclear facilities.
  • Demonstrated skill in applying the principles, theories, and practices of environmental engineering topics such as environmental geochemistry, environmental geology, surface and subsurface hydrology, and related natural processes important to environmental radionuclide fate and transport or facility safety that arise within commercial nuclear facilities.
    (EXAMPLE: Describe experience, education, and training which demonstrates your skill in applying the principles, theories, and practices of engineering or physical science as it relates to recommending and coordinating research projects for improving capability to model (predict and assess) impacts on the biosphere from groundwater or surface water interaction with radioactive materials released from commercial nuclear facilities and impacts on commercial nuclear facilities from external hazards. Describe experience, education and training which demonstrates your skills in the development of research related to geochemical, geologic, surface and/or subsurface hydrologic modeling and data used in long term performance assessment calculations. Experience with remediation of radioactive contaminated sites and radioactive waste disposal including covers for waste impoundments is a plus. Provide examples demonstrating your experience in the application of the above listed items. Describe your accomplishments in areas listed above.
  • Ability to manage complex regulatory or technical issues and to develop sound recommendations and solutions.
    (EXAMPLE: Describe your experience and training with managing complex regulatory or technical issues and developing recommendations for resolution. Describe your specific role and provide examples that reflect your technical ability and contribution).
  • Ability to communicate information, ideas, and advice in a clear, concise, and logical manner, both orally and in writing, with colleagues, subordinates, NRC management in headquarters or regions, review groups, the Commission, members of the public, representatives of professional groups or other Federal or State agencies. Ability to build and sustain coalitions across organizations.
    (EXAMPLE: Describe specific experience, training and accomplishments which demonstrate your communication skills, both orally and in writing. Describe your ability to lead complex technical discussions and consolidate complex and diverse opinions into concise presentations, memoranda, letters, reports; work in a team or group atmosphere; formulate balanced and well-founded recommendations; establish effective work-relationships with colleagues, supervisors, and other government and industry officials and coordinate and lead meetings. Describe oral and written presentations you have performed within your organization, including published technical documents you have authored. List presentations you have made to outside groups including professional organizations, advisory groups, the public, and/or Congress.)

    SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is defined as demonstrating experience in applying the principles, theories, and practices of engineering or physical science as it relates to recommending and coordinating research projects for improving capability to model (predict and assess) impacts on the biosphere from groundwater or surface water interaction with radioactive materials released from commercial nuclear facilities and impacts on commercial nuclear facilities from external hazards. Experience with geochemical, geologic, surface and/or subsurface hydrologic modeling and data used in long term performance assessment calculations. Experience with remediation of radioactive contaminated sites and radioactive waste disposal including covers for waste impoundments is a plus.

    Education

    You must include an unofficial or official copy of your college and/or university transcripts with your application. Transcript must include the School Name, Student Name, Degree and Date Awarded (if applicable). Education must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. If you are qualifying based on foreign education, you must submit proof of credibility of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. If you have multiple degrees (e.g., BS, MS, PhD) please submit transcripts for each degree. Applicants can verify accreditation at the following website: .

    GG-0800 (General Engineering Series):

    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)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 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.)
    You must meet OPM's basic education and professional knowledge requirements that apply to Federal engineering and sciences positions for the grade levels to which you are applying. This knowledge is met by having a bachelor's or higher degree in a relevant professional engineering/science discipline from a school of engineering with at least one engineering curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) (or by documenting how you meet the minimum OPM qualification standards for the 800 Occupational Series .

    Additional information

    The duty location of this position is Rockville, MD. In general, employees are expected to be in the office at a minimum of 4 days per pay period**. Telework schedules, including full-time telework, are approved, on a case-by-case basis. If selected, telework will be determined in accordance with Agency policy and the Collective Bargaining Agreement, if applicable

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