EPA Job Openings – Scientist/Environmental Engineer

Job Description:

This position is designated as Moderate Risk and requires a background investigation. Unless an appropriate background investigation is already on record with the Office of Personnel Management, you must undergo a background investigation. All conditions of the pre-employment security process must be met before an official letter of employment can be issued with a report for duty date.

Job Responsibilities:

• You may be returned at any time to the position from which you were temporarily promoted or detailed, or to a different position of equivalent grade and pay.
• This position is not in the bargaining unit.
• If you are selected, you will serve in either a temporary promotion or a detail.
• If you are already at the same grade as this position, your assignment will be a detail which will be processed for a period not to exceed 120 days, and may be extended in 120 day increments. While on the detail, your salary will not change.
• If this position is at a higher grade than your current grade, the assignment will be a temporary promotion which will be processed for a period not to exceed one year.
• It may be extended up to four additional years without further competition, for a total of five years.
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values at EPA. Our excellence can only be fully realized by staff who share our commitment to these values.
• Successful candidates are committed to advancing equity and inclusion in the Agency’s workplace and mission.
• We encourage applications from candidates with a variety of personal experiences, values, and worldviews that arise from differences of culture and circumstance.
• At EPA, diversity is a vital element in bringing a balance of perspectives to bear on every challenge we face.
• We are committed to creating a diverse workforce because we know that the individual strengths and abilities of our employees make us a stronger organization.
• The more inclusive our employee base is, the greater the variety of ideas that are generated, and the more representative we are of the nation we serve.

Job Requirements:

• Skill to serve as a nationally recognized expert on state-of-the-art media related (air, water, waste, and chemical) technical issues.
• Skill in written communication.
• 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.
• Knowledge of the methods and procedures involved in the compilation of technical findings presented and in determining the acceptability of procedures and standards which my be challenged in court.
• Written Test — Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 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.
• You need a degree or combination of education and experience as described below to qualify for this position.
• Ability to support management integrity.
• A bachelor’s or higher degree from an accredited or pre-accredited college
• Ability to plan and manage monetary resources.
• Knowledge of conventional methods and techniques which would enable the employee to independently perform assignments of high difficulty.
• Skill in oral communication.
• Skill in administrative task.
• Knowledge of advanced principles and practices of the field that enable the employee to investigate and provide consultative services.
• Skill in interpersonal communications.

Job Details:

Company: EPA

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Washington, DC, CA

Application Deadline: N/A

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