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Summary The position provides professional architecture/engineering project management guidance on planning, designing, construction, electrical, mechanical systems and fire protection. Supports the implementation of park asset and development management plans with the goal of improving visitor experience, protecting and restoring cultural resources. Manages single-disciplinary to multi-disciplinary design and construction projects involving both single and multiple-year phasing. Responsibilities Area Information This position is duty stationed in Philadelphia, PA, the 6th largest city in the country. World class educational institutes, medical facilities, and cultural activities abound. Philadelphia is in a humid continental climate zone. Summers are warm and humid, and winters are fairly mild. The Atlantic Ocean is 60 miles to the east. Some staff live near the park and others commute. Transit subsidies are available for public transportation. Edgar Allen Poe National Historic Site (EDAL), Gloria Dei National Historic Site (GLDE), Independence National Historical Park (INDE), and Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial (THKO) (collectively, National Parks of Philadelphia) will commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. The area will experience increased visitation and many special events. The Interdisciplinary Project Manager is a dynamic and challenging position. MAJOR DUTIES: Provides engineering expertise to perform or direct design, construction, operations, and maintenance of park facilities and systems. Performs or directs performance of planning, design, and construction projects based on professional standards, Federal, state, and local laws, and with technical accuracy. Provides contract administration skills to manage planning, design, and construction contracts for life safety and physical security projects. Prepares or directs the preparation of planning, design, and construction documents meeting technical requirements for procurements. Utilizes a wide variety of computer systems, computer-aided design and drafting programs, graphics software, and peripheral equipment for planning, design, and construction projects. Prepares construction documents (e.g. detailed plans, specifications, cost estimates, and other supporting documentation) for advertised or negotiated procurements. Serves as the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) to the Contracting Officer on design and construction projects. During the course of these projects/contracts, ensures the contractor's performance meets the technical requirements of the procurement. Participates as a member of a team to solicit, evaluate and select either professional service with Architectural/Engineering (A/E) firms for design tasks or construction contracting to construct a facility. Evaluates and recommends the work of these firms to ensure technical competency, compliance with regulations and expertise with similar work. Conducts or supervises physical inventories and evaluation of fire suppression, fire detection, intrusion detection, and other systems in government facilities. Carries the primary responsibility for keeping up to date the ''as maintained" drawings for the park, gathering information from ''as constructed" drawings and actual surveys. Works with in-house maintenance crews to observe, record, and diagnose deficiencies in life safety and physical security systems, to recommend corrective actions, interim control measures, and generates cost estimates for repairs. Prepares documentation in order to meet National Historic Preservation Act and National Environmental Policy Act requirements. Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level. Requirements Conditions of Employment U.S. Citizenship required. Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication. Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program. Any individual who is currently holding, or has held within the previous 52 weeks, a General Schedule position under non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet time-in-grade requirements (must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent in the Federal service); with few exceptions as outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal civilian employees applying for reinstatement who have had a break in service of less than one year, as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointments. Time-in-grade does not apply to new excepted service appointments and must be met by the closing date of this announcement. You will be required to operate a government (or private) motor vehicle as part of your official duties; a valid driver's license is required. You will be required to submit a Motor Vehicle Operator's License and Driving Record. You must also submit (within a State sealed envelope or submitted directly by the State authorities), and at your own expense, all certified driving records from all States that disclose all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you. You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work. If you are a new employee or supervisor in the Federal government, you will be required to complete a one-year probationary period. You may be required to travel overnight away from home up to 5 nights per month. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes. You may be required to complete training and obtain/maintain a government charge card with travel and/or purchase authority. The position to which you will be appointed is subject to a financial disclosure reporting requirement and you will be required to complete a new entrant Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450) within 30 days of your appointment. Applicants must be at least 18 years old. Qualifications All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-07/29/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 for each federal position listed as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of qualifying experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected. To meet the basic education requirements for the engineering series (0801/0804/0830/0850) you must possess following qualifications by close of the announcement: Possess a degree in professional engineering. To be acceptable the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree 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: 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. Possess a 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: 1) Professional Registration or licensure-- Current registration as a professional engineer 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; 2) Written Test-- Evidence of having successfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for professional registration, which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners 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 and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph A; or 4) Related Curriculum-- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a 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. To qualify for this position at the GS-09, GS-11 and/or GS-12 grade level, you must possess the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: GS-09 EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: Developing construction projects; Monitoring construction projects; Providing technical condition assessments and investigation for fire protection, inspections and program compliance; Working in the discipline of either general, fire, mechanical or electrical engineering. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least 2 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree. You must include transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. You must include transcripts. GS-11 EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: Conducting investigations of project sites; Managing complex projects, design, construction, maintenance, operations and fire protection; Maintaining coordination of planning efforts to include multiple entities and alternatives; Managing compliance and permit processes, negotiations, oversight of contractors, management of fiscal resources. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. You must include transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. You must include transcripts. GS-12 EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: Conducting investigations of project sites; Managing construction projects; Independently managing complex projects; Providing technical condition assessments and investigation for fire protection, inspections and program compliance; Providing engineering expertise to manage the design, construction, operations and maintenance of facilities; conducting studies and developing plans, specifications, and construction requirements such as schedules, costs, labor, and materials. NOTE: You must include hours per week worked. Education To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work. If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. Volunteer Experience: 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. Additional Information A selectee receiving a first appointment to the Federal Government (Civil Service) is entitled only to the lowest step of the grade for which selected The display of a salary range on this vacancy shall not be construed as granting an entitlement to a higher rate of pay. A Recruitment Incentive May Be Authorized for a newly selected employee when appointed to a permanent, temporary, or term position. A Federal employee who is transferring to the National Park Service from another component, bureau or Federal agency and who does not meet the conditions under 5 CFR §575.102 is not eligible for a recruitment incentive. A Relocation Incentive May Be Authorized for a Federal employee when the employee must move, as directed by the National Park Service (NPS) either through a management directed reassignment or selection for employment, to a different location at least 50 miles away from the one where his/her position of record held at time of selection is currently located, due to a need of the NPS. A relocation incentive is not the same as a Permanent Change of Station (PCS) move and, as such, may be granted in conjunction with one another. This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if identical vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue date of the referral certificate. Promotion to the full performance level is neither guaranteed nor implied and will be based solely on your ability to satisfactorily perform the work of the position, existing work at the higher grade level, and recommendation by the position's supervisor. Physical Demands: Most work is sedentary, with occasional physical activity (walking, climbing, bending, and stooping) during field surveys or the inspection of engineering projects and/or existing buildings and structures. Working Conditions: Most work is performed in an office setting, with occasional field work involving moderate risks associated with construction operations. The National Park Service has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval.