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***The closing date on the announcement is December 11, 2019 at Midnight EST!
General Engineer

The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Medical Products and Tobacco, Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), Office of Science (OS) located in Beltsville, Maryland.
 
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) regulates the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of tobacco products. Our goal is to reduce the harm from all regulated tobacco products across the entire population, including: reducing the number of people who start to use tobacco products, encouraging more people to stop using these products, and reducing the adverse health impact for those who continue to use these products. CTP's actions have significant public health and consumer protection impact and are among the most important issues faced by the Agency in its long and distinguished history.

Responsibilities/Job Duties:
  • Serves as an Expert General Engineer in the Division of Products Science, Office of Science, Center for Tobacco Products, with responsibility for analyzing and determining the adequacy of data.
  • Reviews a wide range of tobacco products (Cigarettes, Smokeless products, Electronic cigarettes (ENDS), e-liquids, cigars, Roll-your-own products, Pipes, Water pipes) to determine the adequacy of the results from engineering disciplines.
  • Recognizes the need for, and initiation of new and amended regulations, policies, and procedures. Provides advice and assistance to scientists and officials on a wide range of engineering matters.
  • Recommends new and revised guidelines for regulated products when appropriate.
  • Provides advice and assistance to scientists and officials on a wide range of engineering matters.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
In order be eligible for the position of General Engineer, (GS-0801-11/12/13), you must meet the following requirements...

A.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.

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B. 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.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS:
For further consideration for the General Engineer, GS-0801-11/12/13, in addition to the basic education requirement listed above, you must meet the following requirements for each grade level for which you wished to be considered.

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IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. 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.

All qualification requirements must be met by 11:59 pm (Eastern Time) on 12/11/2019. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your responses when compared to your background information, you may be deemed ineligible or your score may be adjusted to more accurately reflect your skills and abilities.