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This position is with the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Joint Program Office (JPO), conducting research, development, and education activities to facilitate the adoption of information and
communication technology to enable society to move more safely and efficiently. Learn more about this agency ### Responsibilities As a **Supervisory General Engineer,** you will: • Monitor national and international ITS policy and institutional issues in order to recommend ITS research activities to be undertaken by the ITS JPO. Works collaboratively with modal partners to coordinate ITS knowledge transfer, leveraging work in modal administrations, university transportation centers, public and private sector. • Develop a knowledge transfer program area within the JPO to include understanding the federal role in commercialization and technology transfer into the public and private sectors. Through JPO staff or contractors, develops expertise in economics, finance, business models and marketing. • Oversee professional capacity building and develops stakeholder relationships particularly with external groups who are key to technology transfer. • Supervise a team of ITS professionals in executing effective knowledge transfer and policy/institutional research and works in coordination with other supervisors to ensure projects successfully advance from research, testing, technology transfer, and evaluation. • *The ideal candidate**is experienced in analyzing and reviewing transportation policies and is adept at collaborating with public and private transportation stakeholders on the implementation, commercialization, and communication of transportation Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) policies. ### Travel Required Occasional travel - Position requires occasional travel. ##### Supervisory status Yes ##### Promotion Potential 15 • #### Job family (Series) 0801 General Engineering • Requirements Help ## Requirements ### Conditions of Employment • You must meet specialized experience to qualify • Submit application and resume online by 11:59 PM EST on the closing date • Review Required Documents Section as documents are required by closing date • Announcement also advertised U.S. Citizens: FHWA.JPO-2019-0007 • *CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:** • **SELECTIVE SERVICE:** Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for the Selective Service. • **GOVERNMENT TRAVEL CARD:** This position involves travel. A government contractor-issued travel card will be issued and must be retained for official business only. • **PROBATIONARY PERIOD:** You must complete a one-year probationary period (unless already completed). • **SUPERVISORY PROBATIONARY PERIOD:** You must complete a one-year supervisory probationary period (unless already completed). • **TIME-IN-GRADE: -**Federal applicants must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade to satisfy time-in-grade restrictions contained in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F. ### Qualifications To meet the minimum qualifications for this position, you must (1) meet the **Education Requirement** for the series, (2) provide a copy of transcripts for verification, **AND** (3) meet either the education or experience qualifications for the grade at which you are requesting consideration. • *To qualify for the GS-15**, you must have at least one year of experience equal or equivalent to the GS-14, with: • Experience managing and developing transportation policies and recommending research activities for a transportation program. 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. • * For additional information about applying to Federal positions, please click on the following link: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-policies/#url=e4 • *Students enrolled in a qualifying degree program can apply if the anticipated graduation date is within six months of closing date of the announcement. Graduation transcript must be received before start date. Other applicants must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.**** ### Education All applicants must meet one of the following requirements to qualify for consideration for an engineering position: A. Successful completion of a degree in engineering that: (1) has at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); or (2) that included differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced that first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials; (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials; 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 or training: college level education, training and/or technical experience that has furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying 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: 1. Professional registration or licensure - current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE). 2. 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. 3. Specified academic courses - Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences which included the courses as specified in Paragraph A above. 4. 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 had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. There should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering type experience. This must be clearly described in your resume. For more specifics, please see the OPM qualifications standard for GS-800: All Professional Engineering Positions qualifications at **https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf** ### Additional information Displaced employees may be eligible for ICTAP or CTAP priority consideration. For more information, please review the OPM Employee's Guide to Career Transition. • *EEO STATEMENT:** The Department of Transportation (DOT) maintains a model federal work environment that is free of discrimination. DOT ensures equal employment opportunity for employees and applicants for employment, regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), genetic information, age, disability, sexual orientation, or protected activity. • *This vacancy may be used to fill similar positions within 90 days for these locations.** Read more ### How You Will Be Evaluated You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above. • *DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE: PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.**If your resume/ application does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s). Your resume must contain sufficiently detailed information upon which to make a qualification determination. Please ensure that your resume contains specific information such as position titles, beginning and ending dates of employment for each position, average number of hours worked per week, and if the position is/was in the Federal government, you should provide the position series
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