General Engineer

This vacancy is for a General Engineer in the Office of National Security Controls within the Department of Commerce.

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Occupational-Series Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. 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. Basic Education Requirement: A. 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:

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). -AND- Specialized Experience Requirement: To qualify at the GS-15 grade level, you must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 in the Federal service or its non federal equivalency. Specialized experience is defined as: Applying engineering principles to assess the technical characteristics and applications of commodities, technologies, or systems to support export control, licensing, or regulatory decision; AND Applying export license applications, commodity classifications, and technical information to evaluate national security, or technology transfer; AND Serving as a leading engineer, coordinating and collaborating with engineering and program management personnel on complex, cross-disciplinary projects that integrate technologies across multiple commodities and engineering domains, ensuring technical alignment, resolving technical issues, and contributing to project outcomes that inform policy and program decisions; AND Preparing technical analyses, summaries, or reports and communicating complex technical information to leadership, internal stakeholders, external stakeholders, or other relevant audiences to explain engineering concepts, assessment results, and policy-related considerations.

As a General Engineer, you will perform the following duties: Using engineering skills and technical expertise, develops and formulates regulatory policy, evaluation of proposed exports, and remediation of technical and policy disputes between interested parties. Providing leadership and expert technical and policy advice to inter and intra agency groups such as the Advisory Committee on Export Policy (ACEP), and Wassenaar Arrangement Expert Group (WAEG) on matters pertaining to area of expertise. Analyzing and processes U.S. export control license applications and commodity classification requests for items that are controlled for national security reasons in accordance with the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) using electronic databases. Coordinating meetings of government and industry experts to solve issues and develop proposals for the control and decontrol of dual use items. Addressing the most complex and detailed questions from varying audiences to include peers, representatives from federal agencies or professional organizations or industries, and the public, utilizing engineering skills and knowledge gleaned from Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other General Engineer GS-0801-15, Full Performance Level (FPL), (GS:15) positions within the Department of Commerce in the same geographical location or local commuting area with the same qualifications and specialized experience.