Interdisciplinary Engineer/Architect

Interdisciplinary Engineer/Architect

Department of the Interior

Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs

Office of Facilities, Property and Safety Management (OFPSM)

Summary

This position is loced in the Indian Affairs (IA), Deputy Assistant Secretary Indian Affairs (DASM), Office of Facilities, Property and Safety Management (OFPSM), Division of Facilities Management and Construction (DFMC) loced in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The incumbent serves as a General Engineer/Architect within one of the Engineering Services Branches of DFMC.

Summary

This position is loced in the Indian Affairs (IA), Deputy Assistant Secretary Indian Affairs (DASM), Office of Facilities, Property and Safety Management (OFPSM), Division of Facilities Management and Construction (DFMC) loced in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The incumbent serves as a General Engineer/Architect within one of the Engineering Services Branches of DFMC.

Overview

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Accepting applicions

Open & closing des

08/19/2025 to 09/02/2025

Salary

$74,741 to - $116,463 per year

Pay scale & grade

GS 11 - 12

Locion

4 vacancies in the following locion:

Albuquerque, NM

Remote job

No

Telework eligible

YesSituional Telework as determined by the agency policy.

Travel Required

25% or less - You may be expected to travel four nights per month for this position.

Relocion expenses reimbursed

No

Appointment type

Permanent

Work schedule

Full-time

Service

Competitive

Promotion potential

12

Job family (Series)

0801 General Engineering

0808 Architecture

Supervisory stus

No

Security clearance

Other

Drug test

No

Position sensitivity and risk

Modere Risk (MR)

Trust determinion process

Suitability/Fitness

Financial disclosure

Yes

Bargaining unit stus

Yes

Announcement number

DE-25-12786334-CAWV-DM

Control number

843781000

This job is open to

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The public

U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.

Nive Americans

Nive Americans or Alaskan Nives with a tribal affiliion.

Clarificion from the agency

United Stes Citizens

Indian Preference Eligibles (must submit a BIA Form 4432)

Duties

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Serves as the Contracting Officer's Representive (COR), Awarding Official's Technical Representive (AOTR), and/or the Grant Awarding Official's Technical Representive (GAOTR) for DFMC managed projects.

Incumbent prepares complete solicition packages (e.g., stement of work, stement of objectives, stement of requirements, conceptual drawings) with design guidelines for projects to be designed by A-E services or design-build contractor.

Conducts project management responsibilities such as: developing architectural and engineering (A/E) stements of work; project schedules, cost estimes, and budgets; technical design reviews and analysis of drawings and specificions.

Ensures project compliance with contract provisions and standards; proposes contract changes and modificions; recommends final acceptance of work and prepares closeout documents.

Coordines for and secures archaeological, historical preservion, environmental, and other clearances prior to construction and monitors project compliance with building and safety codes and standards through document reviews and site s.

Responds to inquiries and tends meetings with Tribal leaders, law enforcement officials, prive interests, ste officials, and other federal officials to present projects, describe impacts and to ensure adherence to schedules and designs.

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Conditions of employment

Preference in filing vacancies is given to qualified Indian candides in accordance with the Indian candides in accordance with Indian Preference Act of 1934 (title 25 USC Section 472).

Form BIA-4432 must be submitted with the applicion if claiming Indian Preference.

You required to have federal payments made by Direct Deposit.

You may be required to successfully complete a probionary/trial period.

A background security investigion required for all new hires. Appointment subject to the applicant's successful completion of a background security investigion and favorable adjudicion.

If you are a male applicant born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorizion Act of 1986 requires th you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency.

Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur in the same locion within 90 days form the closing de.

The full performance level of this position is GS-12. Identificion of promotion potential in this announcement does not constitute a commitment or an obligion on the part of management to promote the employee selected some future de.

Career ladder promotions are the discretion of management, and in no way guaranteed.

Indian Affairs has determined th the duties of the position are suitable for situional telework.

All applicants must submit a full set of transcripts or copy of professional license with their applicion to verify qualificion requirements.

Incumbent is required to maintain eligibility for a government charge card for travel.

This position is required to annually complete the OGE-450 Confidential Financial Disclosure Report and have the document approved by the ethics officer.

Candide must be able to obtain and maintain a Contracting Officer Representive (COR) Level 1 certifice within 4 months of employment.

Failure to meet any conditions of employment may result in removal from the Federal service.

Qualificions

GS-11 :

To qualify the GS-11 grade level, you must have one year of specialized experience the GS-09 grade level or equivalent to the next lower grade level performing the following: 1) Assisting in managing construction projects from the planning and design phase to the close out phase; 2) Preparing or reviewing cost estimes and schedules for design and construction projects; and 3) Preparing project informion merials for briefings.

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Three full academic years of progressively higher-level gradue educion or a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or a L.L.M. in a reled field of study.

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A combinion of specialized experience and educion th totals 100% of the experience requirement.

GS-12 :

To qualify the GS-12 grade level, you must have one year of specialized experience the GS-11 grade level or equivalent performing the following: 1) Managing construction projects for the planning and design phase to the close out phase, 2) Preparing cost estimes and/or budgets and schedules for design and construction projects; 3) Preparing and presenting project informion orally and in writing and coordining work with staff in an engineering or architectural field.

All applicants must submit a full set of transcripts or copy of professional license with their applicion to verify qualificion requirements.

All qualificion requirements must be met by the closing de of this announcement.

Educion

If you are qualifying based on your educion, you MUST provide transcripts or other documention to support your educional claims. Unless otherwise sted: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All merials must be submitted by the closing de of the announcement.

If more than 10 percent of your undergradue course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.

One academic year of gradue educion is considered to be the number of credits hours your gradue school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your gradue school's definition of one year of gradue study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as sisfying the requirement for one year of full-time gradue study.

If you are using educion completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualificion requirements, you must send a Certifice of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for th educion which shows 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

All new hires earn the beginning salary of their pay grade (Step 1). See 2025 Salary Tables here, select the pay chart for Albuquerque, New Mexico. If no specific chart is listed for this geographic locion, see the "rest of U.S." chart.

Career Transition Assistance Programs: These programs apply to employees who have been involuntarily separed from a Federal service position within the competitive service or Federal service employees whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed. To receive selection priority for this position, you must: (1) meet CTAP or ICTAP eligibility criteria; (2) be red well-qualified for the position with a score of 87 or above; and, (3) submit the approprie documention to support your CTAP or ICTAP eligibility. For more informion : .

Former Federal Employees are required to indice whether they received a Voluntary Separion Incentive Payment (VSIP) buyout in their previous employment with the Federal government, and are required to submit a copy of the applicable Notificion of Personnel Action (SF-50) regarding the VSIP. The majority of individuals, who accept reemployment with the Federal government within 5 years of receiving the VSIP amount, must repay the gross amount of the separion pay prior to reemployment.

If you are unable to apply online, require reasonable accommodion in the applicion process if you are an applicant with a disability, or need to fax a document you do not have in electronic form, view the following link for informion regarding an Alterne Applicion.

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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 .

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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.

Please limit your resume to no more than 2 pages. If more than 2 pages are submitted, only the first 2 pages reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions.

Your resume evalued after the closing de to determine whether you meet the minimum qualificion requirements for this position described above. Qualified candides will then be further evalued to assess the quality, depth, and complexity of your accomplishments, experience, and educion in relion to the competencies or knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the position as demonstred by your responses to the assessment questions. Competencies measured include:

Building and Construction

Contracting/Procurement

Project Management

Technical Competence

We will compare your resume and supporting documention to your responses on the assessment questionnaire. If your responses to the assessment questions cannot be supported by your resume, your score may be adjusted to more accurely reflect your experience. Qualified applicants evalued, red and referred to the selecting official under cegory ring procedures, and placed in one of the following cegories:

BEST QUALIFIED: Applicants possess all of the job reled competencies identified above.

WELL QUALIFIED: Applicants possess a majority of the job reled competencies.

QUALIFIED: Applicants meet the basic eligibility and minimum qualificion requirements but do not meet the definition of Best Qualified or Well Qualified.

DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE: PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume/ applicion does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s). Your resume must contain sufficiently detailed informion upon which to make a qualificion determinion. Please ensure th your resume contains specific informion such as position titles, beginning and ending des of employment for each position, average number of hours worked per week, and if the position is/was in the Federal government, you should provide the position series and grade level.

Qualified Indian preference candides referred to the hiring manager in order of veterans' preference.

You may preview the assessment questions here in the . Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur within 90 days from the de the certifice was issued.

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 following documents are required for this position:

Resume which details work experience including des worked (mm/yy-mm/yy), position title, Grade (if federal service), and hours worked per week. Please limit your resume to no more than 2 pages. If more than 2 pages are submitted, only the first 2 pages reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions.

On-line Assessment Questionnaire

Transcripts (if using educion to qualify) - Unofficial transcripts are acceptable; however, an official transcript may be requested a ler time.

BIA Form 4432 (if claiming Indian preference)

Veteran's documention -

For 5-point veterans' preference, please provide your DD-214, Copy 4 th MUST show an Honorable Discharge (Certifice of Release or Discharge from Active Duty), official stement of service from your command if you are currently on active duty, or other official documention (e.g., copy of military orders, campaign documents as or expeditionary award cition, etc.) proving your military service was performed under honorable conditions.

For 10-point veterans' preference, you must submit a Standard Form (SF) 15, Applicion for 10-Point Veteran Preference and the supporting documention required by th form.

If you are a disabled veteran you must submit a Veterans Affairs (VA) letter on VA letterhead th stes your overall combined ring and a DD214 (copy 4) reflecting an honorable discharge.

ALL DOCUMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 11:59PM Eastern Time ON THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. If your applicion package is incomplete in any way, you will not be considered for this position, and requests for extensions will not be granted. Please double check your applicion package before you submit it. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL NOT BE SOLICITED FROM OR ACCEPTED BY THIS OFFICE.

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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ONLINE APPLICATION SUBMISSION:

To apply for this position, you must complete the online applicion and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below.

- 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.

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, : .

PLEASE NOTE - NO APPLICATION MATERIAL WILL BE ACCEPTED VIA E-MAIL.

Agency contact informion

Human Resources

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Address

AS-IA Human Resources

12220 Sunrise Valley Dr., Room 4047

Reston, VA 20191

US

Next steps

Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. Your applicion evalued by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluion is complete, you will receive another notificion regarding the stus of your applicion.

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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The following documents are required for this position:

Resume which details work experience including des worked (mm/yy-mm/yy), position title, Grade (if federal service), and hours worked per week. Please limit your resume to no more than 2 pages. If more than 2 pages are submitted, only the first 2 pages reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions.

On-line Assessment Questionnaire

Transcripts (if using educion to qualify) - Unofficial transcripts are acceptable; however, an official transcript may be requested a ler time.

BIA Form 4432 (if claiming Indian preference)

Veteran's documention -

For 5-point veterans' preference, please provide your DD-214, Copy 4 th MUST show an Honorable Discharge (Certifice of Release or Discharge from Active Duty), official stement of service from your command if you are currently on active duty, or other official documention (e.g., copy of military orders, campaign documents as or expeditionary award cition, etc.) proving your military service was performed under honorable conditions.

For 10-point veterans' preference, you must submit a Standard Form (SF) 15, Applicion for 10-Point Veteran Preference and the supporting documention required by th form.

If you are a disabled veteran you must submit a Veterans Affairs (VA) letter on VA letterhead th stes your overall combined ring and a DD214 (copy 4) reflecting an honorable discharge.

ALL DOCUMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 11:59PM Eastern Time ON THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. If your applicion package is incomplete in any way, you will not be considered for this position, and requests for extensions will not be granted. Please double check your applicion package before you submit it. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL NOT BE SOLICITED FROM OR ACCEPTED BY THIS OFFICE.

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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ONLINE APPLICATION SUBMISSION:

To apply for this position, you must complete the online applicion and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below.

- 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.

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, : .

PLEASE NOTE - NO APPLICATION MATERIAL WILL BE ACCEPTED VIA E-MAIL.

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Agency contact informion

Human Resources

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Address

AS-IA Human Resources

12220 Sunrise Valley Dr., Room 4047

Reston, VA 20191

US

Next steps

Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. Your applicion evalued by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluion is complete, you will receive another notificion regarding the stus of your applicion.

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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 08/19/2025 to 09/02/2025 Salary $74,741 to - $116,463 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11 - 12 Locion 4 vacancies in the following locion: Albuquerque, NM Remote job No Telework eligible YesSituional Telework as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required 25% or less - You may be expected to travel four nights per month for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent 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 DE-25-12786334-CAWV-DM Control number 843781000