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Engineering Technician
Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System · Glenville, West Virginia · Closes in 3 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL).
The job is open to the public, but only U.S. citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S. can apply. Applicants must be under the maximum entry age of 36, unless they are qualified preference eligible veterans, who may be exempt.
Experience: You need at least 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade, GS-10. Qualifying examples include making sketches and drawings of structures, using maintenance management or computer-aided design software, and doing cost estimates.
Education: Education cannot replace experience at this grade.
Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.
2 Resume and documents
Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes in 3 days (November 6, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.
How they rate you: Your application is rated by an online questionnaire and USA Hire assessments into Best Qualified, Highly Qualified, or Qualified categories, and your resume is compared against your answers. Overstating your experience or cheating on an assessment can get you removed from consideration.
4 After you apply
In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.
For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.
If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Show start and end dates in MM/YYYY format and hours worked per week for every job, or that experience may not count.
- Describe your drafting, surveying, CAD, or cost estimating work in detail, since these match the qualifying experience.
- All required documents must reach the Consolidated Staffing Unit by 11:59 p.m. ET on 11/06/2026.
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