General Engineer (Hazards Performance Analysis Specialist)
FEMA-HM-Recruitment@fema.dhs.gov (send all inquiries and applications to this email address)
General Description:
Lend a hand, rebuild a community: start as a FEMA Hazards Performance Analysis (HPA) Reservist! The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is seeking candidates to apply for HPA Specialist positions in the FEMA Reservist Program. Join our team and use your talent to support Americans in their time of greatest need. We are looking for candidates interested in making a meaningful difference in recovering communities, while enjoying good benefits, a flexible schedule, and adopting the FEMA sense of adventure. You will perform site visits to areas affected by a disaster to develop cost effective projects, create scopes of work, design hazard mitigation proposals, look for technically feasible opportunities and help local officials to build resilience in their communities. Identify and encourage rebuilding techniques designed to harden and strengthen damaged elements to prevent future damage.
*This is an intermittent position; location and employment is dictated by the need of ongoing emergency response efforts. As a FEMA HPA Reservist you are deployable to all locations within the United States and its territories. This is an entry level position and FEMA Reservists are not compensated in between deployments.
Duties:
In this position, you will assist stakeholders in defining Geographical Information System product requests, and conducting mitigation program delivery based research. Typical assignments include:
- Providing basic Hazard Performance Analysis technical assistance to internal and external stakeholders in the Joint Field Office to help implement the HM program processes;
- Preparing and explaining hazards risk analysis for loss avoidance studies, building codes and performance, and conducting benefits cost analysis;
- Developing and delivering technical briefing data, information and presentations to a variety of stakeholders and partners;
- Applying general engineering concepts and/or construction principles related to water infrastructure projects and/or floodplain management; and
- Executing technical research in the engineering, physical science, construction design and management, architecture fields, the construction industry, building codes, land use planning, zoning, enforcement and economics.
Qualifications:
To qualify for this position, you must possess all of the following demonstrated experience:
- Applying general engineering concepts and/or construction principles related to water infrastructure projects and/or floodplain management which includes construction, roadway, drainage, engineering, land use planning, zoning, building codes, landscape and/or building architecture in order to operate and evaluate specialized information technology systems and strategize to meet unusual needs or special demands;
- Leading and coordinating a team project and providing technical oversight and direction;
- Conducting benefit cost analysis (BCA);
- Translating technical information for use by non-technical audiences in writing and verbally; and
- Conducting research and preparing a variety or technical reports.
In addition to the minimum qualifications described above, you must meet the following basic requirement to be considered qualified for the position:
1. Degree: Have a Bachelor's degree in Professional Engineering from an Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited school and/or the curriculum included Differential and Integral Calculus and courses (beyond 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. OR
2. 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 an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, 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 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 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.
3. 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.
4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor’s 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).
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 provides valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Your application must show that you meet all requirements for this position. You may be found "not qualified" if you do not possess the minimum competencies required for the position.
NOTE: Qualifications are based on breadth/level of experience. In addition to describing duties performed, applicants must provide the exact dates of each period of employment (from MM/YY to MM/YY) and the number of hours worked per week if part time. As qualification determinations cannot be made when resumes do not include the required information, failure to provide this information may result in disqualification. Applicants are encouraged to use the USAJOBS Resume Builder to develop their federal resume. For a brief video on How to Create a Federal Resume, click here.
You are encouraged to reference the Reservist Resume Writing Tips guide prior to submitting your resume through email.For more information please visit our website @ https://www.fema.gov/what-mitigation/federal-insurance-mitigation-administration