Description

At the Indian Health Service, General Engineers do more than design and build-they strengthen communities. Guided by our mission to raise the health of American Indian and Alaska Native people, you'll help create safe, modern facilities where care thrives.

Duties:

• Apply your engineering knowledge to improve healthcare facilities that serve Tribal communities across the Bemidji Area.
• Support the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of hospitals, clinics, and support buildings that sustain essential healthcare services.
• Ensure facility systems operate safely and efficiently by applying engineering principles to heating, ventilation, electrical, and structural systems.
• Collaborate with Tribal partners, healthcare staff, and technical professionals to deliver reliable, modern, and well-maintained facilities.
• Contribute to public health by ensuring each project strengthens the quality, safety, and longevity of healthcare environments serving future generations.

Requirements

Qualifications
To qualify for this position, your resume must state sufficient experience and/or education, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are applying.

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; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week.

The Hiring Manager/Selecting Official may elect to utilize an available flexibility wherein applicants who are currently enrolled and expected to complete the required education and obtain the required licensure/certification/registration with nine month(s) of applying, may be deemed tentatively qualified.
The Hiring Manager/Selecting Official may elect to utilize an available flexibility wherein applicants who are actively completing a required professional training program and are expected to complete such program within nine month(s) of applying, may be deemed tentatively qualified.

BASIC REQUIREMENT(S):
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:

1. 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.
In addition to the Basic Requirements, you must also meet the Minimum Qualifications stated below.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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 Requirements, you must also meet the Minimum Qualifications stated below.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Your resume must demonstrate at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the Federal service obtained in either the private or public sector performing the following type of work and/or tasks:

GS-07: One (1) year of graduate-level education or Superior academic achievement and/or one (1) year of Specialized Experience equivalent to at least the GS-05 grade level. Examples of Specialized Experience include assisting with engineering calculations or designs; gathering and analyzing technical data; supporting energy conservation or facility management systems; and participating in construction or renovation projects for healthcare or comparable facilities.

GS-09: Two (2) years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree and/or One (1) year of Specialized Experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 grade level. Examples of Specialized Experience include: developing reports and engineering statements of work for facilities to be modified or repaired; performing design and review work on building systems such as HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and utilities; and supporting the analysis, evaluation, or improvement of facility operations and controls to ensure safety, efficiency, and compliance with technical standards. OR
Three years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree, or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, in engineering or a directly related field.

Time In Grade
Federal employees in the competitive service are also subject to the Time-In-Grade Requirements: Merit Promotion (status) candidates must have completed one year of service at the next lower grade level. Time-In-Grade provisions do not apply under the Excepted Service Examining Plan (ESEP).

You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement.