Chemical Engineer
Major duties for this position include but are not limited to, the following:
Serves as a project point of contact and/or a team member for safety standards and guidance development and modification within the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the chemical engineering areas related to hazardous materials, fire and explosion-related hazards, process safety, and broad areas related to general industry operations. Serves as a project point of contact and/or a team member in the preparation of new and the revision of existing standards and guidance documents for general industry; as technical conditions change and old standards become obsolete, analyzes the most complex and unique new technologies, work processes, and working conditions and recommends additions, deletions, and modifications to safety standards and guidance documents. Reviews and evaluates national consensus standards and other Federal agency standards to ensure that they provide the greatest protection for employees. Provides technical advice and guidance and performs review within the Directorate on chemical engineering standards and guidance projects; assists the Office of Regulatory Analysis in preparation and reviews of regulatory assessment studies to support standards. Studies proposed major abatement plans and agreements that involve chemical engineering issues involving the control of hazards, the progress of their implementation for adequacy of technical solutions to compliance problems, and the effective establishment of schedules. Provides analyses, recommendations, and evaluations of engineering feasibility of proposed abatements, standards, and variances or in support of other occupational safety or health projects that relate to engineering safety issues. Provides technical assistance and guidance on complex chemical engineering issues to OSHA's safety compliance and engineering staffs in general industry; evaluates industrial and practical applications of such guidance by OSHA compliance officers. Evaluates technology used in general industry with a view towards recommending feasible approaches and techniques for handling safety and health problems. Assists and provides guidance to OSHA field organizations, other National Office Directorates, and the Office of the Solicitor on solutions to complex or unusual chemical engineering problems. Basic Requirements:
Degree:
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 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) 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 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 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 asdescribed 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 hashad 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.) In addition to meeting the basic education requirement, applicants must also meet the following Specialized
Experience:
To qualify for the GS-12 position:
Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-11 . Specialized experience is defined as experience assisting in providing technical advice or consultation, writing documents or responses to inquiries, or assisting in researching and responding to requests for information on Methods and Approaches, such as (designing chemical processes or equipment, optimizing chemical process design, maintaining chemical process equipment, developing procedures for chemical processes, etc.) To qualify for the GS-13 position:
Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-12. Specialized experience is defined as experience providing technical advice or consultation, writing documents or responses to inquiries, or researching and responding to requests for information on Methods and Approaches, such as (designing chemical processes or equipment, optimizing chemical process design, maintaining chemical process equipment, developing procedures for chemical processes, etc.) and developing policies with solutions to technical problems related to chemical engineering.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Serves as a project point of contact and/or a team member for safety standards and guidance development and modification within the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the chemical engineering areas related to hazardous materials, fire and explosion-related hazards, process safety, and broad areas related to general industry operations. Serves as a project point of contact and/or a team member in the preparation of new and the revision of existing standards and guidance documents for general industry; as technical conditions change and old standards become obsolete, analyzes the most complex and unique new technologies, work processes, and working conditions and recommends additions, deletions, and modifications to safety standards and guidance documents. Reviews and evaluates national consensus standards and other Federal agency standards to ensure that they provide the greatest protection for employees. Provides technical advice and guidance and performs review within the Directorate on chemical engineering standards and guidance projects; assists the Office of Regulatory Analysis in preparation and reviews of regulatory assessment studies to support standards. Studies proposed major abatement plans and agreements that involve chemical engineering issues involving the control of hazards, the progress of their implementation for adequacy of technical solutions to compliance problems, and the effective establishment of schedules. Provides analyses, recommendations, and evaluations of engineering feasibility of proposed abatements, standards, and variances or in support of other occupational safety or health projects that relate to engineering safety issues. Provides technical assistance and guidance on complex chemical engineering issues to OSHA's safety compliance and engineering staffs in general industry; evaluates industrial and practical applications of such guidance by OSHA compliance officers. Evaluates technology used in general industry with a view towards recommending feasible approaches and techniques for handling safety and health problems. Assists and provides guidance to OSHA field organizations, other National Office Directorates, and the Office of the Solicitor on solutions to complex or unusual chemical engineering problems. Basic Requirements:
Degree:
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 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) 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 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 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 asdescribed 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 hashad 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.) In addition to meeting the basic education requirement, applicants must also meet the following Specialized
Experience:
To qualify for the GS-12 position:
Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-11 . Specialized experience is defined as experience assisting in providing technical advice or consultation, writing documents or responses to inquiries, or assisting in researching and responding to requests for information on Methods and Approaches, such as (designing chemical processes or equipment, optimizing chemical process design, maintaining chemical process equipment, developing procedures for chemical processes, etc.) To qualify for the GS-13 position:
Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-12. Specialized experience is defined as experience providing technical advice or consultation, writing documents or responses to inquiries, or researching and responding to requests for information on Methods and Approaches, such as (designing chemical processes or equipment, optimizing chemical process design, maintaining chemical process equipment, developing procedures for chemical processes, etc.) and developing policies with solutions to technical problems related to chemical engineering.
- Department:
0893 Chemical Engineering - Salary Range:
$83,398 to $128,920 per year
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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