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Summary This position is located in the Facility Management Division of the Planning, Facilities, and Conservation Assistance (PFCA) Directorate in Philadelphia, PA. Responsibilities As a Fire Protection Engineer, GS-0804-13, your typical work assignments may include the following: Develops and implements a fire protection engineering program for the Northeast Regional Office. Performs evaluations, assessments, tests and studies of facilities to assess compliance with current fire and life safety codes, standards, and policies, including identifying deficiencies such as fire risks and hazards and developing corrective solutions. Provides expert technical advice to branch chiefs, project managers, project specialists, resource managers and contracting personnel on possible approaches to solve specific fire protection engineering related issues. Conducts quality assurance reviews on all design projects for compliance with applicable fire and life safety codes, standards, and policies. Serves as the Fire Code Official (FCO), when appointed by NPS Northeast Regional Director, to provide official fire code interpretations. Review reports, studies, designs, drawings, and specifications and cost estimates for construction fire protection engineering requirements. Requirements Conditions of Employment U.S. Citizenship required. Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication. Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males. Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program. You may be required to operate a government (or private) motor vehicle as part of your official duties. Prior to your first official motor vehicle operation, and again every year thereafter (or more frequently if management determines such need exists), you will be required to sign an affidavit certifying to your possession of a valid State issued driver's license that is current and has not been revoked, suspended, canceled, or otherwise disqualified in any way to prohibit your operation of a motor vehicle. You will also submit a photocopy of your valid State issued driver's license prior to your first official motor vehicle operation, and again every year, or more frequently if management determines such need exists. Lastly, you may be required to submit (within a State sealed envelope or submitted directly by the State authorities), and at your own expense, all certified driving records from all States that discloses all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you. Please indicate in your application whether you possess a valid State driver's license. You may be required to work overtime. If you are a new employee or supervisor in the Federal government, you will be required to complete a one-year probationary period. You may be required to travel overnight away from home up to 3 nights per month. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes. You may be required to complete training and obtain/maintain a government charge card with travel and/or purchase authority. Travel, transportation, and relocation expenses will be paid if the person selected for the position is from outside the local commuting area and is otherwise eligible for reimbursement of relocation expenses under the Federal Travel Regulation. Qualifications All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-08/13/2025-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. To be considered qualified for this position, you must demonstrate that you meet the one of the education requirements and specialized experience. Basic Education Requirement: A bachelor's degree in engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology). OR A bachelor's degree in engineering that included 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 experience and education: Professional registration or licensure. Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. OR Written Test. Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 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. OR Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. OR 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 has had 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. You must submit a copy of your transcripts. If you fail to submit, your application will not be considered, and you will be rated ineligible. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the to the GS-12 level (obtained in either the public or private sectors) developing and implementing a fire protection engineering program to preserve or rehabilitate a wide array of fire protection systems for new, existing and historic buildings and structures that includes advising and assisting with national programs; providing expertise for all fire detection and fire protection engineering issues; ensuring compliance with fire and life safety codes and policies; performing evaluation, assessment, tests and studies of facilities to access compliance and identify deficiencies such as fire risks, hazards and developing corrective solutions. IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience. You will not receive credit for experience that does not indicate the exact hours worked per week or is listed as "varies". Please ensure your resume/employment history includes all the information listed above. Failure to adequately provide the information stated above will result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience. Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Education If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. There is no substitution of education for experience at the grade level(s) of this announcement. Additional Information A selectee receiving a first appointment to the Federal Government (Civil Service) is entitled only to the lowest step of the grade for which selected. The display of a salary range on this vacancy shall not be construed as granting an entitlement to a higher rate of pay. This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if identical vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue date of the referral certificate. Physical Demands: Although the majority of the work is sedentary in nature, frequent field inspections, investigations, observations or studies may involve considerable walking, hiking, climbing, bending and the carrying of gear/equipment, working on ladders and scaffolding, etc. The work may require construction or field inspections, fire protection engineering investigations/studies in which there is a considerable amount of walking, stooping, bending, and climbing. The work entails potential exposure to hazardous materials Working Conditions: The work is usually performed in an office setting. The work area and normally involves everyday risks or discomforts requiring safety precautions typical of offices or meeting and training rooms; or may involve occasional exposure to conditions in production facilities, laboratories, or construction sites requiring normal safety precautions. The work environment includes everyday risks or discomforts that require normal safety precautions typical of offices and meeting rooms.