SUPERVISORY INTERDISCIPLINARY GENERAL ENGINEER/ARCHITECT (SENIOR DESIGNER)

This position has a selective placement factor that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates. The selective placement factor is: You must currently be a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) if applying for the 0801 series. You must be a Registered Architect (RA) if applying for the 0808 series. Your license, registration, or certification must be held in a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States. NOTE: You must submit a copy of your current license, registration, or certification with your application package. In addition to the SPF and Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Expert knowledge of NAVFAC design practices, procedures, and criteria with which we execute our new facility or facility renovation projects. Technical expert in facility design. 2)Expertise in leading multi-discipline design teams in the successful design of facility construction and renovations of the type of facilities that would be expected to be found on military installations.3) Expertise in the supervision and management of a multi-discipline design staff and all of the administrative and community management aspects of this role. Expert at evaluating employees and holding them accountable. 4) Expertise in providing Quality Assurance/Quality Control of design documents and technical studies completed by both in-house and AE consultants. 5) Expertise in providing technical construction support for NAVFAC projects NOTE: This information must be fully supported in your resume. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/architecture-series-0808/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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 provide supervision, assistance and guidance to other designers, engineers/architects, or other NAVFAC codes as appropriate, exercising management and administrative skills in the execution of Capital Improvement projects.
You will provide design management/leadership, criteria and code interpretation, and training and mentoring in the area of design to the technical staff within the component.
You will assign work to subordinates based on priorities, considering the difficulty and requirements of the assignments, the type of work, existing workload, and the capabilities of the employees.
You will plan, design, and sketch overall solutions for architectural and engineering features of various complex and usually difficult projects for preliminary and final design purposes.
You will provide advice and recommendations concerning general architectural and engineering methods and systems as necessary to develop and coordinate projects for design, repair, alteration, rehabilitation, installation, improvement, or demolition.
You will perform basic architectural and/or engineering studies and investigations to determine the most economical methods of fulfilling a program requirement.
You will analyze building systems loading, determine program requirements, ensure compliance with national and local building codes and all Navy/Department of Defense criteria, and obtain field data to analyze and develop engineering requirements.