Engineering Technician
Department of Justice
Justice, Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System
Summary
Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.
Summary
Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.
Overview
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Accepting applicions
Open & closing des
07/18/2025 to 07/25/2025
Salary
$77,236 to - $100,402 per year
Pay scale & grade
GS 11
Locion
Prince George, VA
1 vacancy
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
Occasional travel - Travel may be required for training and/or work reled issues.
Relocion expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
11
Job family (Series)
0802 Engineering Technical
Supervisory stus
No
Security clearance
Other
Drug test
Yes
Announcement number
PET-2025-0041
Control number
841076100
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.
Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL)
Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants.
Clarificion from the agency
BOP Reassignment Eligible in the local commuting area are those who are not required to compete. The full performance level of this position determines your eligibility. DOJ Surplus and Displaced (CTAP) Employees in the local commuting area. Duty Locion: FCC Petersburg, VA
Duties
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Plots results of all field surveys and prepares them for tracing and reproduction.
Completes plans for proposed projects; such as new structures, building alterions, and shop work to be performed the local level with institution funds.
Completes computer-aided drawings to be submitted to the regional office for approval and funding.
Furnishes additional instructions as requested by employees and inmes about work steps and assists journeyman mechanics in the interpretion of blueprints when necessary.
Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staff correctional responsibilities precede all others
Requirements
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Conditions of employment
U.S. Citizenship is Required.
See Special Conditions of Employment Section.
The Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provides eligible surplus and displaced competitive service employees in the Department of Justice with selection priority over other candides for competitive service vacancies. If your Department of Justice component has notified you in writing th you are a surplus or displaced employee eligible for CTAP eligibility, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your CTAP eligibility; 2) you apply under the instructions in this announcement; and 3) you are found well qualified for this vacancy. To be well qualified, you must sisfy all qualificion requirements for the vacant position and score 85 or better on established ranking criteria. You must provide a copy of your written notificion of CTAP eligibility with your applicion. Additional informion about CTAP eligibility is : Click Here
Qualificions
To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualificion requirements.
Basic Requirements:
Experience:
Specialized Experience (for positions GS-4 or equivalent and above): Examples of qualifying specialized experience include technical work in: drafting, surveying construction estiming, physical science, mhemics, aerospace, architecture, chemicals, electrical or mechanical systems, mining, petroleum, or nuclear systems.
Experience in a trade or craft may be credited as specialized experience when the work provided intensive knowledge of engineering principles, techniques, methods, and precedents. Examples are trade positions with substantial developmental, test, or design responsibilities such as:
Planner and estimor who analyzed designs for production purposes.
Instrument maker or model maker who performed design or development work on devices fabriced.
Certificion:
Engineering technicians may be certified by the Nional Institute for Certificion in Engineering Technologies, an organizion sponsored by the Nional Society of Professional Engineers. Certificion by the Institute helpful as a measure of the technician's quality of experience.
In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements above, applicants must have:
Educion:
There is no substitution of educion for specialized experience for this position.
OR
Experience:
You must have least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level in federal service. To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular qualificions to successfully perform the duties of the position, and must typically be in or reled to the position to be filled.
Some examples of this qualifying experience are:
Experience developing sketches and drawings of new and existing structures, and rough drafts of proposed projects.
Must be proficient in utilizing automed software as it pertains to maintenance management and computer aided design.
Experience in performing cost estiming, preparion of justificion for excessive cost and estiming work th is to be performed.
If applicable, credit given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as number of hours worked per week) spent in the activities.
**Your eligibility for considerion based on your responses to the questions in the applicion.**
Educion
See Qualificions Section for educion requirements, if applicable .
ONLY if educion is a requirement/substitution for specialized experience, applicant MUST upload legible transcripts as verificion of educional requirement. Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS the time you apply and MUST include identifying informion to include School Name, Student Name, Degree and De Awarded (if applicable). All academic degrees and coursework must be completed a college or university th has obtained accredition or pre-accredition stus from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion. For a list of schools th meet this criteria, Click Here .
Foreign Educion: For informion regarding foreign educion requirements, please see Foreign Diploma and Credit Recognition the U.S. Department of Educion website: Recognition of Foreign Qualificions .
If you are selected for this position and qualified based on educion (i.e. basic educion requirement and/or substitution of educion), you required to provide an OFFICIAL transcript prior to your first day on duty.
Additional informion
This position IS included in the bargaining unit.
In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 3307, a maximum entry age of 36 has been established for initial appointment to a position in a Bureau of Prisons institution.
The representive re for this position is $84,958 per annum ($40.71 per hour).
Special Conditions of Employment Section:
Appointment is subject to sisfactory completion of a urinalysis, physical, and background investigion. All applicants are subject to Nional Crime Informion Center (NCIC) and credit checks.
All applicants not currently working in an institution required to complete a qualificion inquiry regarding convictions of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence in order to be authorized to carry a firearm.
The Core Value Assessment (CVA) is an in-person assessment th must be facilited a Bureau of Prisons Human Resource Servicing office. On the day of the scheduled interview, a CVA administered. The applicant assessment must be completed within a 70 minute time period and a passing score must be obtained. Further employment considerion will not be extended if the applicant fails to complete the examinion or fails to achieve a passing score. Note: The Core Value Assessment will not be administered to current BOP employees.
Successful completion of the "Introduction to Correctional Techniques," three-week training course Glynco, Georgia is required.
The addresses listed on the USAJOBS account/resume must be the primary residence the time of applicion. You may be required to provide proof of residence.
Additional selections may be made if vacancies occur within the life of the certifice.
Although competitive and non-competitive applicions are being accepted, the selecting official may elect to have only one group reviewed.
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Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution.
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 .
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.
If your composite score exceeds the average score for this job, your resume and supporting documention compared to your online assessment questionnaire responses and utilized to determine whether you meet the job qualificions listed in this announcement. If you re yourself higher than wh is supported by your applicion merials, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from considerion for this job. If you are found to be among the top candides, you referred to the selecting official for employment considerion.
There are several parts of the applicion process th affect the overall evaluion of your applicion:
Your resume, which is part of your USAJOBS profile;
Your responses to the eligibility questions;
Your responses to the online assessment questionnaire;
Your supporting documention, if required.
Time-in-Grade: Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements for considerion. You must meet all qualificion requirements upon the closing de of this announcement.
Wh Competencies/Knowledge, Skills and Abilities are Required for this Position?
The following Competencies/Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA's) are required:
Knowledge of construction methods and techniques.
Knowledge of drafting standards and techniques.
Knowledge of personal computer packages, including Computer-Aided Design (CAD) system.
Knowledge of engineering/architectural fundamentals, applicions, and interpretion of current building codes, and life safety regulions, Architectural Barriers Act (ABA)/Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)guidelines, BOP Design Guidelines and all current policy requirements.
Ability to communice orally.
Ability to conduct cost estiming.
You may preview questions for this vacancy.
Benefits
Help
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 .
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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Resume showing relevant experience (cover letter optional). Experience th would not normally be part of the Federal employee's position is creditable when documented by sisfactory evidence of qualifying experience (e.g., a memorandum from the manager, Human Resource Manager, SF-52, etc.)
To receive credit for experience contained in an applicion, the experience must be documented in month/year form (MM/YYYY), reflecting starting de and ending de and include the number of hours worked per week. Failure to follow this form may result in disqualificion.
Current or former Federal employees NOT employed by the Bureau of Prisons MUST submit a copy of their SF-50 Form which shows competitive service appointment, tenure group, and salary. If you have promotion potential in your current position, please provide proof. If you are applying for a higher grade, and your experience was gained a Federal agency other than the Bureau of Prisons, you MUST provide the SF-50 Form which verifies the length of time you have been in your highest grade and supports your claim for time in grade.
Employees applying with an interchange agreement must provide proof of their permanent appointment.
Current federal employees NOT employed by the BOP and former federal employees MUST submit a copy of their lest yearly performance appraisal/evaluion.
CTAP, Click Here , if applicable.
A college transcript which includes the School Name, Student Name, Degree and De Awarded, if applicable. (Note: If you are selected for this position, official transcript(s) required prior to your first day.)
Failure to provide these documents could possibly result in removal from considerion for this vacancy. If uploading documention, do not identify/save your documents utilizing a special character such as %, #, @, etc. Documention should be identified/saved as VA Letter, DD214, or Transcripts.
We cannot be held responsible for incompible software, delays in mail service, applicant applicion errors, etc.
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
You must apply through the online applicion system www.USAJOBS.gov. Follow the prompts to register, answer a few questions and submit all required documents.
NOTE: Submission of a resume alone is not a complete applicion. This position may require the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental merials as described under the Required Documents section. Please carefully review the complete job announcement and the "How to Apply" instructions. Failure to provide the required informion and/or merials will result in your applicion not being considered for employment.
Required supporting documention must be electronically uploaded or transferred from USAJOBS (uploaded).
All required supporting documention MUST be received by the Consolided Staffing Unit by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on the closing de of the vacancy announcement. You MUST include the vacancy announcement number on your supporting documention.
NOTE: Failure to follow these applicion procedures will result in the applicant losing considerion for this position.
Paper applicions: If applying online is impossible, please contact the Consolided Staffing Unit the telephone number listed below, prior to the closing de of the announcement for the alterne applicion procedure.
Contact for Assistance in Applying On-Line:
DOJ, Federal Bureau of Prisons
Consolided Staffing Unit
346 Marine Forces Drive
Grand Prairie, TX 75051
E-Mail: ...
Phone: ...
Agency contact informion
CSU
Phone
...
...
Address
JUSTICE, BUREAU OF PRISONS
Consolided Staffing Unit
346 Marine Forces Drive
Grand Prairie, Texas 75051
United Stes
Next steps
We will notify you of the outcome after each step of the applicion process has been completed. Normally, Selecting Officials will make a selection within 90-days.
When deemed necessary, the selection process may be extended up to 180-days from the de the certifice(s), (Exception Lists) is/are genered to make a selection.
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
Resume showing relevant experience (cover letter optional). Experience th would not normally be part of the Federal employee's position is creditable when documented by sisfactory evidence of qualifying experience (e.g., a memorandum from the manager, Human Resource Manager, SF-52, etc.)
To receive credit for experience contained in an applicion, the experience must be documented in month/year form (MM/YYYY), reflecting starting de and ending de and include the number of hours worked per week. Failure to follow this form may result in disqualificion.
Current or former Federal employees NOT employed by the Bureau of Prisons MUST submit a copy of their SF-50 Form which shows competitive service appointment, tenure group, and salary. If you have promotion potential in your current position, please provide proof. If you are applying for a higher grade, and your experience was gained a Federal agency other than the Bureau of Prisons, you MUST provide the SF-50 Form which verifies the length of time you have been in your highest grade and supports your claim for time in grade.
Employees applying with an interchange agreement must provide proof of their permanent appointment.
Current federal employees NOT employed by the BOP and former federal employees MUST submit a copy of their lest yearly performance appraisal/evaluion.
CTAP, Click Here , if applicable.
A college transcript which includes the School Name, Student Name, Degree and De Awarded, if applicable. (Note: If you are selected for this position, official transcript(s) required prior to your first day.)
Failure to provide these documents could possibly result in removal from considerion for this vacancy. If uploading documention, do not identify/save your documents utilizing a special character such as %, #, @, etc. Documention should be identified/saved as VA Letter, DD214, or Transcripts.
We cannot be held responsible for incompible software, delays in mail service, applicant applicion errors, etc.
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
You must apply through the online applicion system www.USAJOBS.gov. Follow the prompts to register, answer a few questions and submit all required documents.
NOTE: Submission of a resume alone is not a complete applicion. This position may require the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental merials as described under the Required Documents section. Please carefully review the complete job announcement and the "How to Apply" instructions. Failure to provide the required informion and/or merials will result in your applicion not being considered for employment.
Required supporting documention must be electronically uploaded or transferred from USAJOBS (uploaded).
All required supporting documention MUST be received by the Consolided Staffing Unit by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on the closing de of the vacancy announcement. You MUST include the vacancy announcement number on your supporting documention.
NOTE: Failure to follow these applicion procedures will result in the applicant losing considerion for this position.
Paper applicions: If applying online is impossible, please contact the Consolided Staffing Unit the telephone number listed below, prior to the closing de of the announcement for the alterne applicion procedure.
Contact for Assistance in Applying On-Line:
DOJ, Federal Bureau of Prisons
Consolided Staffing Unit
346 Marine Forces Drive
Grand Prairie, TX 75051
E-Mail: ...
Phone: ...
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Agency contact informion
CSU
Phone
...
...
Address
JUSTICE, BUREAU OF PRISONS
Consolided Staffing Unit
346 Marine Forces Drive
Grand Prairie, Texas 75051
United Stes
Next steps
We will notify you of the outcome after each step of the applicion process has been completed. Normally, Selecting Officials will make a selection within 90-days.
When deemed necessary, the selection process may be extended up to 180-days from the de the certifice(s), (Exception Lists) is/are genered to make a selection.
Expand Hide next steps
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 07/18/2025 to 07/25/2025 Salary $77,236 to - $100,402 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11 Locion Prince George, VA 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel - Travel may be required for training and/or work reled issues. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 11 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test Yes Announcement number PET-2025-0041 Control number 841076100
Department of Justice
Justice, Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System
Summary
Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.
Summary
Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.
Overview
Help
Accepting applicions
Open & closing des
07/18/2025 to 07/25/2025
Salary
$77,236 to - $100,402 per year
Pay scale & grade
GS 11
Locion
Prince George, VA
1 vacancy
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
Occasional travel - Travel may be required for training and/or work reled issues.
Relocion expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
11
Job family (Series)
0802 Engineering Technical
Supervisory stus
No
Security clearance
Other
Drug test
Yes
Announcement number
PET-2025-0041
Control number
841076100
This job is open to
Help
Internal to an agency
Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement.
Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL)
Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants.
Clarificion from the agency
BOP Reassignment Eligible in the local commuting area are those who are not required to compete. The full performance level of this position determines your eligibility. DOJ Surplus and Displaced (CTAP) Employees in the local commuting area. Duty Locion: FCC Petersburg, VA
Duties
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Plots results of all field surveys and prepares them for tracing and reproduction.
Completes plans for proposed projects; such as new structures, building alterions, and shop work to be performed the local level with institution funds.
Completes computer-aided drawings to be submitted to the regional office for approval and funding.
Furnishes additional instructions as requested by employees and inmes about work steps and assists journeyman mechanics in the interpretion of blueprints when necessary.
Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staff correctional responsibilities precede all others
Requirements
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Conditions of employment
U.S. Citizenship is Required.
See Special Conditions of Employment Section.
The Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provides eligible surplus and displaced competitive service employees in the Department of Justice with selection priority over other candides for competitive service vacancies. If your Department of Justice component has notified you in writing th you are a surplus or displaced employee eligible for CTAP eligibility, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your CTAP eligibility; 2) you apply under the instructions in this announcement; and 3) you are found well qualified for this vacancy. To be well qualified, you must sisfy all qualificion requirements for the vacant position and score 85 or better on established ranking criteria. You must provide a copy of your written notificion of CTAP eligibility with your applicion. Additional informion about CTAP eligibility is : Click Here
Qualificions
To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualificion requirements.
Basic Requirements:
Experience:
Specialized Experience (for positions GS-4 or equivalent and above): Examples of qualifying specialized experience include technical work in: drafting, surveying construction estiming, physical science, mhemics, aerospace, architecture, chemicals, electrical or mechanical systems, mining, petroleum, or nuclear systems.
Experience in a trade or craft may be credited as specialized experience when the work provided intensive knowledge of engineering principles, techniques, methods, and precedents. Examples are trade positions with substantial developmental, test, or design responsibilities such as:
Planner and estimor who analyzed designs for production purposes.
Instrument maker or model maker who performed design or development work on devices fabriced.
Certificion:
Engineering technicians may be certified by the Nional Institute for Certificion in Engineering Technologies, an organizion sponsored by the Nional Society of Professional Engineers. Certificion by the Institute helpful as a measure of the technician's quality of experience.
In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements above, applicants must have:
Educion:
There is no substitution of educion for specialized experience for this position.
OR
Experience:
You must have least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level in federal service. To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular qualificions to successfully perform the duties of the position, and must typically be in or reled to the position to be filled.
Some examples of this qualifying experience are:
Experience developing sketches and drawings of new and existing structures, and rough drafts of proposed projects.
Must be proficient in utilizing automed software as it pertains to maintenance management and computer aided design.
Experience in performing cost estiming, preparion of justificion for excessive cost and estiming work th is to be performed.
If applicable, credit given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as number of hours worked per week) spent in the activities.
**Your eligibility for considerion based on your responses to the questions in the applicion.**
Educion
See Qualificions Section for educion requirements, if applicable .
ONLY if educion is a requirement/substitution for specialized experience, applicant MUST upload legible transcripts as verificion of educional requirement. Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS the time you apply and MUST include identifying informion to include School Name, Student Name, Degree and De Awarded (if applicable). All academic degrees and coursework must be completed a college or university th has obtained accredition or pre-accredition stus from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion. For a list of schools th meet this criteria, Click Here .
Foreign Educion: For informion regarding foreign educion requirements, please see Foreign Diploma and Credit Recognition the U.S. Department of Educion website: Recognition of Foreign Qualificions .
If you are selected for this position and qualified based on educion (i.e. basic educion requirement and/or substitution of educion), you required to provide an OFFICIAL transcript prior to your first day on duty.
Additional informion
This position IS included in the bargaining unit.
In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 3307, a maximum entry age of 36 has been established for initial appointment to a position in a Bureau of Prisons institution.
The representive re for this position is $84,958 per annum ($40.71 per hour).
Special Conditions of Employment Section:
Appointment is subject to sisfactory completion of a urinalysis, physical, and background investigion. All applicants are subject to Nional Crime Informion Center (NCIC) and credit checks.
All applicants not currently working in an institution required to complete a qualificion inquiry regarding convictions of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence in order to be authorized to carry a firearm.
The Core Value Assessment (CVA) is an in-person assessment th must be facilited a Bureau of Prisons Human Resource Servicing office. On the day of the scheduled interview, a CVA administered. The applicant assessment must be completed within a 70 minute time period and a passing score must be obtained. Further employment considerion will not be extended if the applicant fails to complete the examinion or fails to achieve a passing score. Note: The Core Value Assessment will not be administered to current BOP employees.
Successful completion of the "Introduction to Correctional Techniques," three-week training course Glynco, Georgia is required.
The addresses listed on the USAJOBS account/resume must be the primary residence the time of applicion. You may be required to provide proof of residence.
Additional selections may be made if vacancies occur within the life of the certifice.
Although competitive and non-competitive applicions are being accepted, the selecting official may elect to have only one group reviewed.
Expand Hide additional informion
Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution.
Benefits
Help
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 .
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.
If your composite score exceeds the average score for this job, your resume and supporting documention compared to your online assessment questionnaire responses and utilized to determine whether you meet the job qualificions listed in this announcement. If you re yourself higher than wh is supported by your applicion merials, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from considerion for this job. If you are found to be among the top candides, you referred to the selecting official for employment considerion.
There are several parts of the applicion process th affect the overall evaluion of your applicion:
Your resume, which is part of your USAJOBS profile;
Your responses to the eligibility questions;
Your responses to the online assessment questionnaire;
Your supporting documention, if required.
Time-in-Grade: Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements for considerion. You must meet all qualificion requirements upon the closing de of this announcement.
Wh Competencies/Knowledge, Skills and Abilities are Required for this Position?
The following Competencies/Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA's) are required:
Knowledge of construction methods and techniques.
Knowledge of drafting standards and techniques.
Knowledge of personal computer packages, including Computer-Aided Design (CAD) system.
Knowledge of engineering/architectural fundamentals, applicions, and interpretion of current building codes, and life safety regulions, Architectural Barriers Act (ABA)/Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)guidelines, BOP Design Guidelines and all current policy requirements.
Ability to communice orally.
Ability to conduct cost estiming.
You may preview questions for this vacancy.
Benefits
Help
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 .
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
Help
Resume showing relevant experience (cover letter optional). Experience th would not normally be part of the Federal employee's position is creditable when documented by sisfactory evidence of qualifying experience (e.g., a memorandum from the manager, Human Resource Manager, SF-52, etc.)
To receive credit for experience contained in an applicion, the experience must be documented in month/year form (MM/YYYY), reflecting starting de and ending de and include the number of hours worked per week. Failure to follow this form may result in disqualificion.
Current or former Federal employees NOT employed by the Bureau of Prisons MUST submit a copy of their SF-50 Form which shows competitive service appointment, tenure group, and salary. If you have promotion potential in your current position, please provide proof. If you are applying for a higher grade, and your experience was gained a Federal agency other than the Bureau of Prisons, you MUST provide the SF-50 Form which verifies the length of time you have been in your highest grade and supports your claim for time in grade.
Employees applying with an interchange agreement must provide proof of their permanent appointment.
Current federal employees NOT employed by the BOP and former federal employees MUST submit a copy of their lest yearly performance appraisal/evaluion.
CTAP, Click Here , if applicable.
A college transcript which includes the School Name, Student Name, Degree and De Awarded, if applicable. (Note: If you are selected for this position, official transcript(s) required prior to your first day.)
Failure to provide these documents could possibly result in removal from considerion for this vacancy. If uploading documention, do not identify/save your documents utilizing a special character such as %, #, @, etc. Documention should be identified/saved as VA Letter, DD214, or Transcripts.
We cannot be held responsible for incompible software, delays in mail service, applicant applicion errors, etc.
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
You must apply through the online applicion system www.USAJOBS.gov. Follow the prompts to register, answer a few questions and submit all required documents.
NOTE: Submission of a resume alone is not a complete applicion. This position may require the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental merials as described under the Required Documents section. Please carefully review the complete job announcement and the "How to Apply" instructions. Failure to provide the required informion and/or merials will result in your applicion not being considered for employment.
Required supporting documention must be electronically uploaded or transferred from USAJOBS (uploaded).
All required supporting documention MUST be received by the Consolided Staffing Unit by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on the closing de of the vacancy announcement. You MUST include the vacancy announcement number on your supporting documention.
NOTE: Failure to follow these applicion procedures will result in the applicant losing considerion for this position.
Paper applicions: If applying online is impossible, please contact the Consolided Staffing Unit the telephone number listed below, prior to the closing de of the announcement for the alterne applicion procedure.
Contact for Assistance in Applying On-Line:
DOJ, Federal Bureau of Prisons
Consolided Staffing Unit
346 Marine Forces Drive
Grand Prairie, TX 75051
E-Mail: ...
Phone: ...
Agency contact informion
CSU
Phone
...
...
Address
JUSTICE, BUREAU OF PRISONS
Consolided Staffing Unit
346 Marine Forces Drive
Grand Prairie, Texas 75051
United Stes
Next steps
We will notify you of the outcome after each step of the applicion process has been completed. Normally, Selecting Officials will make a selection within 90-days.
When deemed necessary, the selection process may be extended up to 180-days from the de the certifice(s), (Exception Lists) is/are genered to make a selection.
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
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Resume showing relevant experience (cover letter optional). Experience th would not normally be part of the Federal employee's position is creditable when documented by sisfactory evidence of qualifying experience (e.g., a memorandum from the manager, Human Resource Manager, SF-52, etc.)
To receive credit for experience contained in an applicion, the experience must be documented in month/year form (MM/YYYY), reflecting starting de and ending de and include the number of hours worked per week. Failure to follow this form may result in disqualificion.
Current or former Federal employees NOT employed by the Bureau of Prisons MUST submit a copy of their SF-50 Form which shows competitive service appointment, tenure group, and salary. If you have promotion potential in your current position, please provide proof. If you are applying for a higher grade, and your experience was gained a Federal agency other than the Bureau of Prisons, you MUST provide the SF-50 Form which verifies the length of time you have been in your highest grade and supports your claim for time in grade.
Employees applying with an interchange agreement must provide proof of their permanent appointment.
Current federal employees NOT employed by the BOP and former federal employees MUST submit a copy of their lest yearly performance appraisal/evaluion.
CTAP, Click Here , if applicable.
A college transcript which includes the School Name, Student Name, Degree and De Awarded, if applicable. (Note: If you are selected for this position, official transcript(s) required prior to your first day.)
Failure to provide these documents could possibly result in removal from considerion for this vacancy. If uploading documention, do not identify/save your documents utilizing a special character such as %, #, @, etc. Documention should be identified/saved as VA Letter, DD214, or Transcripts.
We cannot be held responsible for incompible software, delays in mail service, applicant applicion errors, etc.
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
You must apply through the online applicion system www.USAJOBS.gov. Follow the prompts to register, answer a few questions and submit all required documents.
NOTE: Submission of a resume alone is not a complete applicion. This position may require the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental merials as described under the Required Documents section. Please carefully review the complete job announcement and the "How to Apply" instructions. Failure to provide the required informion and/or merials will result in your applicion not being considered for employment.
Required supporting documention must be electronically uploaded or transferred from USAJOBS (uploaded).
All required supporting documention MUST be received by the Consolided Staffing Unit by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on the closing de of the vacancy announcement. You MUST include the vacancy announcement number on your supporting documention.
NOTE: Failure to follow these applicion procedures will result in the applicant losing considerion for this position.
Paper applicions: If applying online is impossible, please contact the Consolided Staffing Unit the telephone number listed below, prior to the closing de of the announcement for the alterne applicion procedure.
Contact for Assistance in Applying On-Line:
DOJ, Federal Bureau of Prisons
Consolided Staffing Unit
346 Marine Forces Drive
Grand Prairie, TX 75051
E-Mail: ...
Phone: ...
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Agency contact informion
CSU
Phone
...
...
Address
JUSTICE, BUREAU OF PRISONS
Consolided Staffing Unit
346 Marine Forces Drive
Grand Prairie, Texas 75051
United Stes
Next steps
We will notify you of the outcome after each step of the applicion process has been completed. Normally, Selecting Officials will make a selection within 90-days.
When deemed necessary, the selection process may be extended up to 180-days from the de the certifice(s), (Exception Lists) is/are genered to make a selection.
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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 07/18/2025 to 07/25/2025 Salary $77,236 to - $100,402 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11 Locion Prince George, VA 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel - Travel may be required for training and/or work reled issues. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 11 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test Yes Announcement number PET-2025-0041 Control number 841076100
Job ID: 486692635
Originally Posted on: 7/24/2025
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