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General Engineer – Direct Hire – SME
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration · Anywhere in the U.S. (remote job) · Closes in 9 days

1 Check you can apply
2 Resume and documents
3 Apply on USAJOBS
4 After you apply

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1 Check you can apply You are here

Who can apply: The public, Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL).

Any U.S. citizen, national, or person who owes allegiance to the U.S. can apply. Federal employees whose job, agency, or department was eliminated get priority under career transition programs (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL).

Experience: For GS-12, you need at least 1 year of experience equal to GS-11 in gas and liquid pipeline engineering (design, construction, operation, maintenance, repair, integrity management, or failure analysis), plus work on investigations or projects to improve transportation safety. For GS-13, you need at least 1 year of experience equal to GS-12 in risk management, pipeline integrity management, and management systems that protect facilities with critical environmental and safety impact.

Education: You must meet the engineering education requirement. This can be an engineering bachelor's degree from an ABET-accredited program, or a program with calculus and five of seven listed engineering science or physics areas. Education can also qualify through a combination of coursework and experience, such as passing the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, having 60 semester hours of science and engineering courses, or a related science degree plus 1 year of engineering experience. Degrees must come from schools accredited by a U.S. Department of Education recognized accrediting body.

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.

Resume ready: dates, hours per week, duties Resume of no more than 2 pages showing dates, hours per week, titles, and series and grade for federal jobs Transcripts, which need not be official but must show required engineering courses Copy of PE license or written proof of passing the EIT exam, if you qualify that way SF-50 forms showing start date and a later SF-50 at least 52 weeks later, if you are a current or former federal employee For CTAP or ICTAP: most recent performance appraisal, proof of eligibility letter, and current SF-50 Paragraph responses describing your experience that match your resume

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 9 days (November 13, 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: Phase I checks whether your resume shows the required specialized experience, using only the first two pages. Phase II has a subject matter expert rate your knowledge, skills, and abilities in incident management, technical problem solving, and accident investigation. Experience not supported by your resume will not count, and missing required information can lead to an ineligible rating.

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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:

Your resume must list dates, hours per week, and position details for every job, and only the first two pages will be reviewed.
Transcripts are required because you must meet the engineering education requirement, so get them ready early.
Uploading files does not attach them automatically, so check that each document appears in your application before you submit.

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