Mechanical Engineer

For each job on your resume, provide: the exact dates you held each job (from month/year to month/year) number of hours per week you worked (if part time). If you have volunteered your service through a National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, Americorps), we encourage you to apply and include this experience on your resume. The GS-13 salary range starts at $106,437 per year. Locality will be determined based on duty location. BASIC REQUIREMENTS FOR ENGINEERS: A Degree in professional engineering OR a combination of college-level education, training, and/or technical experience. For specifics on qualifying education and/or experience - use the following link: Basic Requirements for Engineer Positions. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: In addition to the Basic Requirements listed above, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as experience serving as a mechanical engineer responsible for complex multi-disciplinary engineering projects from initial concept through final completion. Qualifying experience must demonstrate the ability to: Developing technical contract support documentation (such as Product Descriptions (PDs), Commercial Item Descriptions (CIDs), and/or Item Purchase Descriptions (IPDs)) to support the acquisition of engineering commodities; Providing engineering guidance to stakeholders in accordance with applicable laws, policies, regulations, and established mechanical engineering principles and practices; and Preparing engineering reports to resolve product-related and/or compliance issues. This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcript(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcements to verify qualifications. If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment.

As a Mechanical Engineer, you will perform the following duties: Review industry standards, test methods, and technology to ensure they are used in Federal Product Descriptions (FPD's) or agency technical contract support documents. Apply a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods to assess and improve program effectiveness for complex management processes, projects, and systems. Develop new specifications and standards and modify existing specifications and standards for assigned items. Review proposed and existing military specifications and standards used in Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) procurement. Present findings and recommendations for preparing activities. Develops and maintains FPD's, Commercial Item Descriptions (CID's), Item Purchase Descriptions (IPD's), Federal specifications and other agency technical contract support documents. Act as an agency representative to industry for assigned commodity areas (i.e., serves on technical industry standards committees; clarify and interpret specifications and standards, etc.). Represent the organization in high level conferences and meetings in explaining and interpreting policies and requirements to others, and in negotiating important issues with other groups. Identify and recommend items for either elimination or addition to the GSA supply system based upon projected economies and standardization studies. Evaluate and make recommendations concerning the disposition of supplier requests for deviations from technical contractual obligations.