Fire Protection Engineer
Company: Air Force Institute of Technology
Location: Washington
Posted on: March 10, 2025
Job Description:
This position is located in the Architect of the Capitol, Senate
Office Buildings, Facilities Support Division. The selectee serves
in a developmental capacity as a Fire Protection Engineer with
responsibility for performing professional engineering work to
protect life and property from destructive fire. The selectee will
perform a variety of more difficult assignments to develop
experience.You must meet the United States Office of Personnel
Management's (OPM) qualification requirements (including
specialized experience and/or educational requirements) for the
advertised position. You must meet all eligibility and
qualifications requirements by the closing date of the job
announcement. Additional information on the qualification
requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards
Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your
review on the OPM website at .For Engineers:For the
GS-07:Specialized experience: is experience that has equipped you
with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform
successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in
or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable,
specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the
next lower grade level.Candidates for the GS-07 grade level must
have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the
next lower (GS-05) grade level in the Federal service.Specialized
experience for this position is defined as having experience in at
least 3 of the following:
- Accomplishing developmental assignments utilizing basic
techniques, procedures, and methods;
- Understanding and completing limited engineering designs and
projects;
- Carrying out, interpreting, and explaining basic computations
and calculations;
- Performing routine and regular reoccurring work related to fire
engineering;
- Participating in assignments in relation to fire safety.-OR-1
year of graduate-level education.Graduate Education: Completion of
graduate level education in addition to meeting the basic
requirements is qualifying for positions at grade GS-07, if it
provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the
work.An academic year of graduate education is defined as 18
semester hours or 27 quarter hours should be considered as
satisfying the 1 year of full-time study requirement or the number
of credit hours that the school attended has determined to
represent 1 academic year of full-time study.-OR-Superior Academic
Achievement (S.A.A.) at the baccalaureate level in an engineering
program is qualifying for the GS-07, in addition to meeting the
basic educational requirements.S.A.A. is based on (1) class
standing, (2) grade-point average, or (3) honor society
membership.
- Class standing-- Applicants must be in the upper third of the
graduating class in the college, university, or major subdivision,
such as the College of Liberal Arts or the School of Business
Administration, based on completed courses.
- Grade-point average (G.P.A.)-- Applicants must have a
grade-point average of:
- 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B" or better) as recorded
on their official transcript, or as computed based on 4 years of
education, or as computed based on courses completed during the
final 2 years of the curriculum; or
- 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B+" or better) based on
the average of the required courses completed in the major field or
the required courses in the major field completed during the final
2 years of the curriculum.
- Election to membership in a national scholastic honor society
listed by the Association of College Honor Societies. Membership in
a freshman honor society cannot be used to meet the requirements of
this provision.-OR-Combination of Education and Experience: A
combination of successfully completed education and experience may
be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed
percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.For the
GS-09:Specialized experience: is experience that has equipped you
with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform
successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in
or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable,
specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the
next lower grade level.Candidates for the GS-09 grade level must
have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the
next lower (GS-07) grade level in the Federal service.Specialized
experience is defined as having experience in at least 4 of the
following:
- Accomplishing developmental assignments utilizing basic
techniques, procedures, and methods;
- Understanding and completing limited engineering designs and
projects;
- Carrying out, interpreting, and explaining basic computations
and calculations;
- Performing routine and regular reoccurring work related to fire
engineering;
- Participating in assignments in relation to fire safety.
- Assessing fire protection and fire safety designs of various
systems, structures and buildings.-OR-Graduate Education: 2 years
of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a
master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate
degree.-OR-Combination of Graduate Education and Specialized
Experience: Combinations of successfully completed graduate level
education and specialized experience may be used to meet total
experience requirements. Only graduate level education in excess of
the amount required for the next lower grade level may be combined
with experience.For GS-11:Candidates for the GS-011 grade level
must have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to
the next lower (GS-09) grade level in the Federal
service.Specialized experience is defined as having experience in
all of the following:
- Accomplishing developmental assignments utilizing basic
techniques, procedures, and methods;
- Understanding and completing limited engineering designs and
projects;
- Carrying out, interpreting, and explaining basic computations
and calculations;
- Performing routine and regular reoccurring work related to fire
engineering;
- Participating in assignments in relation to fire safety.
- Serves as Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR)
on assigned projects.-OR-3 years of progressively higher level
graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree.-OR-Ph.D. or
equivalent doctoral degreeORA combination of experience and
graduate education as described above that equates to one year of
experience.
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Keywords: Air Force Institute of Technology, Washington DC , Fire Protection Engineer, Engineering , Washington, DC
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