Summary

The Architect of the Capitol is seeking a highly qualified and experienced Supervisory Environmental Engineer to serve within the Office of Safety and Code Compliance, Environmental Division. The incumbent serves as the Deputy Director and as a senior technical and supervisory authority responsible for leading environmental compliance, environmental engineering, pollution prevention, permitting and environmental management programs affecting facilities and operations across the Capitol Complex.

Duties

**This position is essential. The employee is required to report to work during emergencies and inclement weather situations.

Major Duties:

Supervisory and Leadership Responsibilities

Provides input to the Director and office leadership regarding vision, operational planning, and budget in pursuing environmental program improvements.
Provides administrative and technical supervision to professional and technical environmental staff within the Environmental Division.
Plans, assigns, and evaluates work to ensure timely completion of projects and program objectives.
Develops performance standards and conducts employee performance evaluations to support professional development, and organizational effectiveness.
Identifies training needs and promotes employee development through mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance.
Supports Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) principles and fosters an inclusive and collaborative work environment.
Coordinates workload priorities, resource allocation, and operational objectives to support agency mission requirements.

Environmental Program Management

Leads and oversees agency-wide environmental compliance and environmental protection programs.
Interprets and implements Federal, state, and local environmental regulations and standards.
Develops environmental policies, procedures, guidance documents, and best management practices.
Provides expert technical guidance on environmental engineering, permitting, compliance assurance, hazardous materials, spill prevention and response oversight, and leads the development of pollution prevention programs.
Represents the agency in interactions with regulatory agencies, stakeholders, customer representatives, and external partners regarding environmental compliance matters.
Assists in responding to regulatory inspections, audits, investigations, and regulatory enforcement actions.

Environmental Engineering and Project Management

Oversees work on such projects as environmental engineering studies, environmental planning efforts, and long-range master planning design initiatives to ensure application of evolving technologies and environmental compliance requirements, practices in remediation technologies and approaches.
Reviews project specific work such as engineering designs, specifications, and operational plans for environmental compliance considerations.
Provides technical oversight for environmental registrations, permitting, inspections, monitoring and reporting activities.
Conducts environmental assessments, investigations, and compliance reviews.
Supports sustainability and risk management initiatives across the Capitol Complex and at our Maryland and Virginia facilities.
Develops and monitors project schedules, budgets, and deliverables.

Contractor Oversight

Serves as a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) on assigned contracts and projects.
Reviews contractor submissions, technical deliverables, and project performance for compliance with contractual and technical requirements.
Coordinates with contractors, consultants, engineers, and project teams to resolve technical issues and ensure project success.

Technical Consultation and Advisory Services

Serves as a senior technical advisor on complex environmental engineering and compliance matters.
Provides briefings and recommendations to executive leadership, management officials, and stakeholders.
Conducts research and analysis related to environmental regulations, engineering solutions, and emerging environmental risks.
Supports emergency response activities involving environmental incidents, spills, or hazardous conditions.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

Your resume and question responses must demonstrate the job-related KSAs.
You must meet the definition of specialized experience.
Must meet the educational requirement for Engineers.
You must be able to pass a drug test.

To be employed by the Architect of the Capitol in a paid position, an individual must meet one of the categories below:

A citizen of the United States;
A person who is lawfully admitted for permanent residence and is seeking citizenship as outlined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)(B);
A person who is admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or is granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1158 and has filed a declaration of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and then a citizen when eligible;
A person who owes allegiance to the United States (nationals of American Samoa, Swains Island, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and nationals who meet other requirements described in 8 U.S.C. 1408); or
A person who is currently an officer or employee of the Government of the United States.

Qualifications

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 web site at OPM qualification standards

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-14 grade level must have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower (GS-13) grade level in the Federal service.

Specialized experience for this position is having experience that demonstrates all of the following:

Managing or overseeing environmental engineering or environmental compliance programs;
Interpreting and applying Federal, state, or local environmental laws and regulations;
Interacting with regulators and industry peers or counterparts;
Leading environmental projects involving permitting, compliance inspections, pollution prevention, environmental assessments, or sustainability initiatives;
Providing technical guidance related to environmental engineering, environmental protection, or regulatory compliance; and
Supervising staff, leading teams, or managing environmental program operations.

Education

In addition to meeting the specialized experience requirements for this position, applicants must possess the following:

Education Required for Engineers:

A. Bachelor's degree in professional engineering: To be creditable, the program must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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: statics, dynamics;(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--

B. 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 professional 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:

Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), 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.
Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 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.
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.
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.)

For a detailed explanation of the related curriculum or experience, please visit the following website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf

You must provide an official transcript before appointment.

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Special Instructions for Foreign Education:

Education completed outside of the United States must be deemed equivalent to that gained in conventional/accredited U.S. education programs to be acceptable for Federal employment.

Qualifying education from colleges and universities in foreign countries must be evaluated in terms of equivalency to that acquired in U.S. colleges and universities. Applicants educated in whole or in part of foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited private organization for an equivalency evaluation of course work and degree.

You must provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluation with a course by course listing if selected.

Additional information

Welcome Veterans. The Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) gives veterans' preference rights in the legislative branch to certain veterans as applied by the Congressional Accountability Act. Veterans' preference is applied on this vacancy announcement. If you are a veteran and have been separated under honorable conditions, you must submit a copy of your DD-214 or other proof of eligibility; SF-15, if applicable; and Department of Veterans Affairs documentation of disability, if applicable. For more information, please visit OPM vet guide

If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System. If you are exempt from registration under Selective Service Law, you must provide appropriate proof of exemption. Please visit the Selective Service System website for more information.

DRUG TESTING: The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is a Drug Free Workplace. As part of the AOC’s suitability assessment, a candidate tentatively selected for a position who is not currently an AOC employee is required to submit to screening for illegal drug use. Satisfactory completion of a drug test is a condition of employment with the Agency. A candidate must test negative prior to being eligible for appointment into a position. We will schedule, provide, and cover the cost for the drug test.

The selectee(s) under the vacancy announcement for this position is subject to a criminal record check by the U.S. Capitol Police and satisfactory adjudication to be eligible for employment at the Architect of the Capitol.

The Architect of the Capitol is an E-VERIFY Participant. E-VERIFY is an Internet-based system that compares information from an employee's Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, to data from U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration records to confirm employment authorization in the United States. If you are selected for this position, the documentation that you present for purposes of completing the DHS Form I-9 will be verified through the DHS "E-VERIFY" electronic system. For more information on E-Verify, please visit http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1185221678150.shtm

The Architect of the Capitol is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and/or disability.

This agency provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the agency. The decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be on a case-by-case basis.

Note: Please be advised that federal retired annuitant candidates may only be considered as a temporary employee if the role can be filled in that capacity.

Moving expenses are not authorized.

Relocation expenses are not authorized.

Probationary Period-A newly appointed selectee is subject to the completion of a one-year trial/probationary period, regardless of whether or not a trial/probationary period has been completed previously with the Architect of the Capitol or another Federal agency.

This vacancy announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies in any of the jurisdictions of the Architect of the Capitol.
All application materials become the property of the Architect of the Capitol.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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