Mechanical Engineer
Department of the Army
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Portland District - John Day/Willow Creek Project
Summary
Serves as a Mechanical Maintenance/Reliability Engineer for the John Day Lock and Dam Project responsible for a variety of functions in support of the hydropower plant, fish passage systems, navigion lock, spillway, levees, recreion and other feures and equipment of a multi-purpose project.
Summary
Serves as a Mechanical Maintenance/Reliability Engineer for the John Day Lock and Dam Project responsible for a variety of functions in support of the hydropower plant, fish passage systems, navigion lock, spillway, levees, recreion and other feures and equipment of a multi-purpose project.
Overview
Help
Accepting applicions
Open & closing des
08/21/2025 to 09/02/2025
Salary
$98,948 to - $126,186 per year
Pay scale & grade
GS 11 - 12
Locion
1 vacancy in the following locion:
Rufus, OR
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
Not required
Relocion expenses reimbursed
YesYou may qualify for reimbursement of relocion expenses in accordance with agency policy.
Appointment type
Multiple - Position may be filled as a time-limited promotion, reassignment or change to lower grade not to exceed (NTE) 4 years by a current permanent Army employee. Extensions may be possible in accordance with guidance on the job announcement.
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
12
Job family (Series)
0830 Mechanical Engineering
Supervisory stus
No
Security clearance
Not Required
Drug test
No
Position sensitivity and risk
Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk
Trust determinion process
Suitability/Fitness
Financial disclosure
No
Bargaining unit stus
Yes
Announcement number
CERH...
Control number
843927700
This job is open to
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Internal to an agency
Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement.
Clarificion from the agency
See "Who May Apply" in the "Qualificions" section for more informion on who is eligible to apply for this position.
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Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, and safety and security systems.
Develops efficiencies for maintenance work wherever feasible, assuring efficient and reliable operions, process and equipment while protecting and prolonging the economic life of assets optimal cost.
Insures system check-out, functional tests and adjustment of newly installed equipment, modified equipment, or recently maintained equipment.
Provides professional mechanical engineering expertise on operions and maintenance of mechanical equipment for multipurpose hydroelectric power facility.
Interfaces with prive sector contractors/vendors regarding equipment purchases, services and supplies.
Requirements
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Conditions of employment
Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determinion, as determined by a completed background investigion.
The duties of this position require the incumbent to possess or obtain and maintain a valid ste Driver's License in one of the 50 U.S. stes or possessions to opere vehicles.
Qualificions
Who May Apply : Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority cegories below are eligible to apply for this job. You asked to identify which cegory or cegories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the cegory or cegories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.
Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Applying on Time-Limited Assignments
In order to qualify, you must meet the experience and/or educion requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on educion, your transcripts required as part of your applicion. Additional informion about transcripts is in this document .
Basic Requirement for Mechanical Engineer:
A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with least one program accredited by the Accredition Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); 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) stics, dynamics; (b) strength of merials (stress-strain relionships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nure and properties of merials (reling particle and aggrege structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, he transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
OR
B. Combinion of Educion and Experience: College-level educion, training, and/or technical experience th furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mhemical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applicions to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstred by one of the following:
1. Professional registrion or licensure - Current registrion as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any Ste, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registrion by means other than written test (e.g., Ste grandfher or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions th are within or closely reled to the specialty field of their registrion. For example, an applicant who tains registrion through a Ste Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be red eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examinion, or any other written test required for professional registrion, by an engineering licensure board in the various Stes, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
3. Specified academic courses - Successful completion of least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mhemical, and engineering sciences and th included the courses specified in A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
4. Reled curriculum - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an approprie scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mhemics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had 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.
Specialized Experience GS-11: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) Applying theories, principles, concepts and methodologies of engineering; 2) Assisting with the development of engineering solutions; and 3) Ensuring reliability and maintainability of equipment, and processes various facilities. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).
OR
Educion: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level gradue educion leading to such a degree in a field which demonstres the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
OR
Combinion of Educion and Experience: A combinion of educion and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed gradue semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total gradue semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.
Specialized Experience GS-12: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) Applying theories, principles, concepts and methodologies of engineering; 2) Developing engineering solutions; and 3) Ensuring reliability and maintainability of equipment, and processes various facilities. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your educion for the required experience in order to qualify.
For this job, you must meet the qualificion requirement using experience alone--no substitution of educion for experience is permitted.
You evalued on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
Mechanical
Mechanical Engineering
Technical Competence
Time in Grade Requirement GS-12: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-11).
Time in Grade Requirement GS-11: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-09).
Educion
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using educion completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualificion requirements, you must show the educion credentials have been evalued by a prive organizion th specializes in interpretion of foreign educion programs and such educion has been deemed equivalent to th gained in an accredited U.S. educion program; or full credit has been given for the courses a U.S. accredited college or university. For further informion, : .
Additional informion
Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certificion Stement for Selective Service Registrion.
You required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
One year trial/probionary period may be required.
Direct deposit of pay is required.
Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the informion in the Reemployed Annuitant informion sheet.
This is a Construction, Engineering, Infrastructure Career Field position.
Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
Position is approved for hydropower-reled Special Salary Re Table in accordance with Northwestern Division's Program Guidance and Delegion for the Position Management and Classificion Programs.
When you perform a Civilian Permanent Change of Stion (PCS) with the government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit for more informion.
Payment of Permanent Change of Stion (PCS) costs is authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulions.
Advanced-in-Hire, Enhanced Leave Accrual, Student Loan Repayment, or Recruitment/Relocion incentive MAY be authorized if determined to be in the best interest of the government.
Management may make selections any grade level. Promotion to the next grade management's discretion following completion of time-in-grade requirements, training, fully successful performance, and acquired and demonstred experience.
Position may be filled as a time-limited promotion, reassignment or change to lower grade not to exceed (NTE) 4 years by a current permanent Army employee. Time-limited promotions may be extended up to a maximum of five years. Time-limited reassignments and changes to lower grade may exceed five years, however return rights may be impacted. Position may be made permanent without further competition.
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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.
How you evalued
You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.
Once the announcement has closed, a review of your applicion package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) used to determine whether you meet the qualificion requirements listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documention compared against your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documention, a determinion is made th you have infled your qualificions and/or experience, you may lose considerion for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.
You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in your resume as th informion may be taken into considerion during the selection process. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documention.
Benefits
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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .
Review our benefits
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.
Required documents
Required Documents
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The documents you are required to submit vary based on the authority you are using to apply (i.e., applying as a veteran, applying as a current permanent Federal employee, applying as a reinstement, etc). Please review the following links to see which documents you need to provide to prove your eligibility to apply: Applicant Checklist for Internal/Merit Promotion Announcements .
As described above, your complete applicion includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you marked as having an incomplete applicion package and you will not be considered any further.
1. Your resume:
Your resume may be submitted in any form and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement.
If your resume includes a photograph or other inapproprie merial or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualificion determinions and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
For qualificions determinions your resume must contain hours worked per week and the des of employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this informion, your applicion marked as incomplete and you will not receive considerion for this position.
For additional informion see: Wh to include in your resume .
2. Other supporting documents:
Cover Letter, optional
Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable
Proof of Eligibility to Apply: Your applicion must include the documents which prove you are eligible to apply for the vacancy. The Proof of Eligibility document describes authorities commonly used in merit promotion recruitment and wh document(s) are required to prove you meet the requirements of the authority. You must meet the requirements of least one of the authorities listed in the Who May Apply section above to receive further considerion.
Time-in-grade documention: If you are applying for a higher grade and your SF-50 has an effective de within the past year, it may not clearly demonstre you meet the one year time-in-grade requirement so you will need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstres you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of approprie SF-50s include Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective de more than one year old).
This position has an individual occupional requirement and/or allows for substitution of educion for experience. If you meet this requirement based on educion you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your applicion package or you red ineligible. See: Transcripts and Licenses
NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the applicion package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certifices may contain personal informion for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal informion before you submit your applicion. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
Help
To apply for this position, you must complete the online questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below.
The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 09/02/2025 to receive considerion.
To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion ( ).
Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
After acknowledging you have reviewed your applicion package, complete the Include Personal Informion section as you deem approprie and click to continue with the applicion process .
You taken to the online applicion which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention is included with your applicion package, and submit the applicion. You must re-select your resume and/or other documents from your USAJOBS account or your applicion incomplete.
It is your responsibility to verify th your applicion package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) is complete, accure, and submitted by the closing de. Uploaded documents may take up to one hour to clear the virus scan.
Additional informion on how to complete the online applicion process and submit your online applicion may be found on the USA Staffing Applicant Resource Center .
To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account all of your applicions will appear on the Welcome screen. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : .
Agency contact informion
Army Applicant Help Desk
Website
Address
RH-W2SJ01 USARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-PORTLAND
DO NOT MAIL
Portland, OR 97208
US
Next steps
If you provided an email address, you will receive an email message acknowledging receipt of your applicion. Your applicion package used to determine your eligibility, qualificions, and quality ranking for this position. If you are determined to be ineligible or not qualified, your applicion will receive no further considerion.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Required Documents
Help
The documents you are required to submit vary based on the authority you are using to apply (i.e., applying as a veteran, applying as a current permanent Federal employee, applying as a reinstement, etc). Please review the following links to see which documents you need to provide to prove your eligibility to apply: Applicant Checklist for Internal/Merit Promotion Announcements .
As described above, your complete applicion includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you marked as having an incomplete applicion package and you will not be considered any further.
1. Your resume:
Your resume may be submitted in any form and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement.
If your resume includes a photograph or other inapproprie merial or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualificion determinions and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
For qualificions determinions your resume must contain hours worked per week and the des of employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this informion, your applicion marked as incomplete and you will not receive considerion for this position.
For additional informion see: Wh to include in your resume .
2. Other supporting documents:
Cover Letter, optional
Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable
Proof of Eligibility to Apply: Your applicion must include the documents which prove you are eligible to apply for the vacancy. The Proof of Eligibility document describes authorities commonly used in merit promotion recruitment and wh document(s) are required to prove you meet the requirements of the authority. You must meet the requirements of least one of the authorities listed in the Who May Apply section above to receive further considerion.
Time-in-grade documention: If you are applying for a higher grade and your SF-50 has an effective de within the past year, it may not clearly demonstre you meet the one year time-in-grade requirement so you will need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstres you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of approprie SF-50s include Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective de more than one year old).
This position has an individual occupional requirement and/or allows for substitution of educion for experience. If you meet this requirement based on educion you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your applicion package or you red ineligible. See: Transcripts and Licenses
NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the applicion package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certifices may contain personal informion for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal informion before you submit your applicion. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
Help
To apply for this position, you must complete the online questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below.
The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 09/02/2025 to receive considerion.
To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion ( ).
Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
After acknowledging you have reviewed your applicion package, complete the Include Personal Informion section as you deem approprie and click to continue with the applicion process .
You taken to the online applicion which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention is included with your applicion package, and submit the applicion. You must re-select your resume and/or other documents from your USAJOBS account or your applicion incomplete.
It is your responsibility to verify th your applicion package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) is complete, accure, and submitted by the closing de. Uploaded documents may take up to one hour to clear the virus scan.
Additional informion on how to complete the online applicion process and submit your online applicion may be found on the USA Staffing Applicant Resource Center .
To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account all of your applicions will appear on the Welcome screen. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : .
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Agency contact informion
Army Applicant Help Desk
Website
Address
RH-W2SJ01 USARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-PORTLAND
DO NOT MAIL
Portland, OR 97208
US
Next steps
If you provided an email address, you will receive an email message acknowledging receipt of your applicion. Your applicion package used to determine your eligibility, qualificions, and quality ranking for this position. If you are determined to be ineligible or not qualified, your applicion will receive no further considerion.
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Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 08/21/2025 to 09/02/2025 Salary $98,948 to - $126,186 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11 - 12 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Rufus, OR Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed YesYou may qualify for reimbursement of relocion expenses in accordance with agency policy. Appointment type Multiple - Position may be filled as a time-limited promotion, reassignment or change to lower grade not to exceed (NTE) 4 years by a current permanent Army employee. Extensions may be possible in accordance with guidance on the job announcement. Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 12 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number CERH... Control number 843927700
Department of the Army
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Portland District - John Day/Willow Creek Project
Summary
Serves as a Mechanical Maintenance/Reliability Engineer for the John Day Lock and Dam Project responsible for a variety of functions in support of the hydropower plant, fish passage systems, navigion lock, spillway, levees, recreion and other feures and equipment of a multi-purpose project.
Summary
Serves as a Mechanical Maintenance/Reliability Engineer for the John Day Lock and Dam Project responsible for a variety of functions in support of the hydropower plant, fish passage systems, navigion lock, spillway, levees, recreion and other feures and equipment of a multi-purpose project.
Overview
Help
Accepting applicions
Open & closing des
08/21/2025 to 09/02/2025
Salary
$98,948 to - $126,186 per year
Pay scale & grade
GS 11 - 12
Locion
1 vacancy in the following locion:
Rufus, OR
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
Not required
Relocion expenses reimbursed
YesYou may qualify for reimbursement of relocion expenses in accordance with agency policy.
Appointment type
Multiple - Position may be filled as a time-limited promotion, reassignment or change to lower grade not to exceed (NTE) 4 years by a current permanent Army employee. Extensions may be possible in accordance with guidance on the job announcement.
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
12
Job family (Series)
0830 Mechanical Engineering
Supervisory stus
No
Security clearance
Not Required
Drug test
No
Position sensitivity and risk
Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk
Trust determinion process
Suitability/Fitness
Financial disclosure
No
Bargaining unit stus
Yes
Announcement number
CERH...
Control number
843927700
This job is open to
Help
Internal to an agency
Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement.
Clarificion from the agency
See "Who May Apply" in the "Qualificions" section for more informion on who is eligible to apply for this position.
Videos
Duties
Help
Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, and safety and security systems.
Develops efficiencies for maintenance work wherever feasible, assuring efficient and reliable operions, process and equipment while protecting and prolonging the economic life of assets optimal cost.
Insures system check-out, functional tests and adjustment of newly installed equipment, modified equipment, or recently maintained equipment.
Provides professional mechanical engineering expertise on operions and maintenance of mechanical equipment for multipurpose hydroelectric power facility.
Interfaces with prive sector contractors/vendors regarding equipment purchases, services and supplies.
Requirements
Help
Conditions of employment
Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determinion, as determined by a completed background investigion.
The duties of this position require the incumbent to possess or obtain and maintain a valid ste Driver's License in one of the 50 U.S. stes or possessions to opere vehicles.
Qualificions
Who May Apply : Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority cegories below are eligible to apply for this job. You asked to identify which cegory or cegories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the cegory or cegories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.
Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Applying on Time-Limited Assignments
In order to qualify, you must meet the experience and/or educion requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on educion, your transcripts required as part of your applicion. Additional informion about transcripts is in this document .
Basic Requirement for Mechanical Engineer:
A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with least one program accredited by the Accredition Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); 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) stics, dynamics; (b) strength of merials (stress-strain relionships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nure and properties of merials (reling particle and aggrege structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, he transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
OR
B. Combinion of Educion and Experience: College-level educion, training, and/or technical experience th furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mhemical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applicions to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstred by one of the following:
1. Professional registrion or licensure - Current registrion as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any Ste, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registrion by means other than written test (e.g., Ste grandfher or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions th are within or closely reled to the specialty field of their registrion. For example, an applicant who tains registrion through a Ste Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be red eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examinion, or any other written test required for professional registrion, by an engineering licensure board in the various Stes, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
3. Specified academic courses - Successful completion of least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mhemical, and engineering sciences and th included the courses specified in A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
4. Reled curriculum - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an approprie scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mhemics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had 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.
Specialized Experience GS-11: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) Applying theories, principles, concepts and methodologies of engineering; 2) Assisting with the development of engineering solutions; and 3) Ensuring reliability and maintainability of equipment, and processes various facilities. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).
OR
Educion: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level gradue educion leading to such a degree in a field which demonstres the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
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Combinion of Educion and Experience: A combinion of educion and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed gradue semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total gradue semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.
Specialized Experience GS-12: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) Applying theories, principles, concepts and methodologies of engineering; 2) Developing engineering solutions; and 3) Ensuring reliability and maintainability of equipment, and processes various facilities. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your educion for the required experience in order to qualify.
For this job, you must meet the qualificion requirement using experience alone--no substitution of educion for experience is permitted.
You evalued on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
Mechanical
Mechanical Engineering
Technical Competence
Time in Grade Requirement GS-12: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-11).
Time in Grade Requirement GS-11: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-09).
Educion
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using educion completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualificion requirements, you must show the educion credentials have been evalued by a prive organizion th specializes in interpretion of foreign educion programs and such educion has been deemed equivalent to th gained in an accredited U.S. educion program; or full credit has been given for the courses a U.S. accredited college or university. For further informion, : .
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Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certificion Stement for Selective Service Registrion.
You required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
One year trial/probionary period may be required.
Direct deposit of pay is required.
Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the informion in the Reemployed Annuitant informion sheet.
This is a Construction, Engineering, Infrastructure Career Field position.
Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
Position is approved for hydropower-reled Special Salary Re Table in accordance with Northwestern Division's Program Guidance and Delegion for the Position Management and Classificion Programs.
When you perform a Civilian Permanent Change of Stion (PCS) with the government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit for more informion.
Payment of Permanent Change of Stion (PCS) costs is authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulions.
Advanced-in-Hire, Enhanced Leave Accrual, Student Loan Repayment, or Recruitment/Relocion incentive MAY be authorized if determined to be in the best interest of the government.
Management may make selections any grade level. Promotion to the next grade management's discretion following completion of time-in-grade requirements, training, fully successful performance, and acquired and demonstred experience.
Position may be filled as a time-limited promotion, reassignment or change to lower grade not to exceed (NTE) 4 years by a current permanent Army employee. Time-limited promotions may be extended up to a maximum of five years. Time-limited reassignments and changes to lower grade may exceed five years, however return rights may be impacted. Position may be made permanent without further competition.
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You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.
Once the announcement has closed, a review of your applicion package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) used to determine whether you meet the qualificion requirements listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documention compared against your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documention, a determinion is made th you have infled your qualificions and/or experience, you may lose considerion for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.
You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in your resume as th informion may be taken into considerion during the selection process. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documention.
Benefits
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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .
Review our benefits
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.
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Required Documents
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The documents you are required to submit vary based on the authority you are using to apply (i.e., applying as a veteran, applying as a current permanent Federal employee, applying as a reinstement, etc). Please review the following links to see which documents you need to provide to prove your eligibility to apply: Applicant Checklist for Internal/Merit Promotion Announcements .
As described above, your complete applicion includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you marked as having an incomplete applicion package and you will not be considered any further.
1. Your resume:
Your resume may be submitted in any form and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement.
If your resume includes a photograph or other inapproprie merial or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualificion determinions and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
For qualificions determinions your resume must contain hours worked per week and the des of employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this informion, your applicion marked as incomplete and you will not receive considerion for this position.
For additional informion see: Wh to include in your resume .
2. Other supporting documents:
Cover Letter, optional
Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable
Proof of Eligibility to Apply: Your applicion must include the documents which prove you are eligible to apply for the vacancy. The Proof of Eligibility document describes authorities commonly used in merit promotion recruitment and wh document(s) are required to prove you meet the requirements of the authority. You must meet the requirements of least one of the authorities listed in the Who May Apply section above to receive further considerion.
Time-in-grade documention: If you are applying for a higher grade and your SF-50 has an effective de within the past year, it may not clearly demonstre you meet the one year time-in-grade requirement so you will need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstres you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of approprie SF-50s include Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective de more than one year old).
This position has an individual occupional requirement and/or allows for substitution of educion for experience. If you meet this requirement based on educion you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your applicion package or you red ineligible. See: Transcripts and Licenses
NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the applicion package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certifices may contain personal informion for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal informion before you submit your applicion. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
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To apply for this position, you must complete the online questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below.
The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 09/02/2025 to receive considerion.
To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion ( ).
Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
After acknowledging you have reviewed your applicion package, complete the Include Personal Informion section as you deem approprie and click to continue with the applicion process .
You taken to the online applicion which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention is included with your applicion package, and submit the applicion. You must re-select your resume and/or other documents from your USAJOBS account or your applicion incomplete.
It is your responsibility to verify th your applicion package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) is complete, accure, and submitted by the closing de. Uploaded documents may take up to one hour to clear the virus scan.
Additional informion on how to complete the online applicion process and submit your online applicion may be found on the USA Staffing Applicant Resource Center .
To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account all of your applicions will appear on the Welcome screen. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : .
Agency contact informion
Army Applicant Help Desk
Website
Address
RH-W2SJ01 USARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-PORTLAND
DO NOT MAIL
Portland, OR 97208
US
Next steps
If you provided an email address, you will receive an email message acknowledging receipt of your applicion. Your applicion package used to determine your eligibility, qualificions, and quality ranking for this position. If you are determined to be ineligible or not qualified, your applicion will receive no further considerion.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Required Documents
Help
The documents you are required to submit vary based on the authority you are using to apply (i.e., applying as a veteran, applying as a current permanent Federal employee, applying as a reinstement, etc). Please review the following links to see which documents you need to provide to prove your eligibility to apply: Applicant Checklist for Internal/Merit Promotion Announcements .
As described above, your complete applicion includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you marked as having an incomplete applicion package and you will not be considered any further.
1. Your resume:
Your resume may be submitted in any form and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement.
If your resume includes a photograph or other inapproprie merial or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualificion determinions and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
For qualificions determinions your resume must contain hours worked per week and the des of employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this informion, your applicion marked as incomplete and you will not receive considerion for this position.
For additional informion see: Wh to include in your resume .
2. Other supporting documents:
Cover Letter, optional
Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable
Proof of Eligibility to Apply: Your applicion must include the documents which prove you are eligible to apply for the vacancy. The Proof of Eligibility document describes authorities commonly used in merit promotion recruitment and wh document(s) are required to prove you meet the requirements of the authority. You must meet the requirements of least one of the authorities listed in the Who May Apply section above to receive further considerion.
Time-in-grade documention: If you are applying for a higher grade and your SF-50 has an effective de within the past year, it may not clearly demonstre you meet the one year time-in-grade requirement so you will need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstres you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of approprie SF-50s include Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective de more than one year old).
This position has an individual occupional requirement and/or allows for substitution of educion for experience. If you meet this requirement based on educion you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your applicion package or you red ineligible. See: Transcripts and Licenses
NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the applicion package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certifices may contain personal informion for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal informion before you submit your applicion. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
Help
To apply for this position, you must complete the online questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below.
The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 09/02/2025 to receive considerion.
To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion ( ).
Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
After acknowledging you have reviewed your applicion package, complete the Include Personal Informion section as you deem approprie and click to continue with the applicion process .
You taken to the online applicion which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention is included with your applicion package, and submit the applicion. You must re-select your resume and/or other documents from your USAJOBS account or your applicion incomplete.
It is your responsibility to verify th your applicion package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) is complete, accure, and submitted by the closing de. Uploaded documents may take up to one hour to clear the virus scan.
Additional informion on how to complete the online applicion process and submit your online applicion may be found on the USA Staffing Applicant Resource Center .
To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account all of your applicions will appear on the Welcome screen. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : .
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Agency contact informion
Army Applicant Help Desk
Website
Address
RH-W2SJ01 USARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-PORTLAND
DO NOT MAIL
Portland, OR 97208
US
Next steps
If you provided an email address, you will receive an email message acknowledging receipt of your applicion. Your applicion package used to determine your eligibility, qualificions, and quality ranking for this position. If you are determined to be ineligible or not qualified, your applicion will receive no further considerion.
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Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 08/21/2025 to 09/02/2025 Salary $98,948 to - $126,186 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11 - 12 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Rufus, OR Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed YesYou may qualify for reimbursement of relocion expenses in accordance with agency policy. Appointment type Multiple - Position may be filled as a time-limited promotion, reassignment or change to lower grade not to exceed (NTE) 4 years by a current permanent Army employee. Extensions may be possible in accordance with guidance on the job announcement. Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 12 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number CERH... Control number 843927700
Job ID: 490603991
Originally Posted on: 8/24/2025
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