SPVR COMMUNITY PLANNER/NATURAL RESOURCES SPEC/ENVIRONMENTAL ENGI with Security Clearance

The Department of Defense is seeking a Community Planner/Natural Resources Specialist/Environmental Engineer in Honolulu, HI. The role involves interpreting environmental laws, supervising staff, and managing environmental planning products. Candidates must be US citizens, eligible for federal employment, and have a Professional Engineer license for the Environmental Engineer series. The position requires security clearance and may involve travel to remote sites.
Duties
• You will interpret environmental laws, regulations, and policies to effect good business decisions and successful project execution.
• You will serve as a senior point-of-contact on assigned environmental planning products and services and associated interdisciplinary teams.
• You will develop work schedules and establishes priorities among staff.
• You will promote the EEO Program assuring equal treatment of subordinates in all areas of work and personnel management including selections, assignments, training, promotions, details, discipline, awards and recognition, and overtime assignments.
• You will supervise, oversee, prepare and review CATEXs, EAs, OEAs, EISs, and OEISs, in accordance with the NEPA and/or EO 12114.
Requirements Conditions of Employment
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level.
This requirement is called time-in-grade.
Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty.
Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain a current valid United States driver's license.
• You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites.
You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• You will be required to complete ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, within 30 days of appointment.
• Supervisors in the executive branch have a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics.
You will be required to review the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct at 5 CFR 2635.101.
• A Professional Engineer License is required for the 0819 series, Environmental Engineer.
Qualifications This position has a selective placement factor that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates for the 0819 series only .
The Selective Placement Factor is: You must be a currently licensed/registered Professional Engineer (PE) if applying to the Environmental Engineer (0819).
Your license or registration must be held in a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.
Do you meet this requirement? ***NOTE: A copy of your current license/registration showing the expiration date MUST be submitted with your application in order to be considered for this position.
A copy of a wall certificate that does not have an expiration date will not serve to verify this requirement.
Your resume must 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) Providing professional and technical leadership to support the delivery of environmental planning products and services to NAVFAC customers or Supported Commanders (Department of Defense (DoD) organizations); 2) Managing and executing Environmental Planning, including completion of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents, particularly Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) and Environmental Assessments (EAs); 3) Providing innovative, responsive, and sustainable solutions to ensure that Supported Commanders (DoD organizations) are able to meet their training and operational mission needs while also ensuring environmental compliance; 4) Understanding, interpreting and consulting with federal and state agencies and working knowledge of the laws, rules, and regulations to include NEPA, Executive Order 12114 on Environmental Effects Abroad of Major Federal Actions and all other associated regulations and guidance; and 5) Coordinating and communicating with higher-level DoD commands and non-DoD federal agencies, state and local agency subject matter experts related to environmental planning to resolve complex or unique issues and assist in prioritizing resources.
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
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.
Education Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants applying to the Community Planner (0020) must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Degree: community planning; or related field such as urban affairs, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, sociology, geography, economics, political science, or public administration that included at least 12 semester hours in the planning process, socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, urban and regional economic analysis, and development finance.
OR Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in one of the above disciplines, or a combination of related courses totaling at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the above disciplines of which at least 12 semester hours were in the planning process, and socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
Applicants applying to the Natural Resources Specialist (0401) must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Degree: biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position OR Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
~Applicants applying to the Environmental Engineer (0819) must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree.
To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); 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: (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.
Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
OR 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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.orgOREvidence
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 The FE examination is not administered by the U.
S.
Office of Personnel Management.
For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.
ORSuccessful
completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above).
The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in para

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