{"id":3243632,"url":"https://alion.io/job/us-air-force-mechanical-engineer-project-manager-direct-hire-authority","title":"MECHANICAL ENGINEER (PROJECT MANAGER) - DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY","company":{"id":1753555,"name":"US Air Force","domain":"af.mil","url":"https://alion.io/company/af-mil","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Wright-Patterson AFB, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":92841,"max":null,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":92841},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":1,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T18:03:43Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-09-25T18:03:43Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":38,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":38},"description":"Summary\nClick on \"Learn more about this agency\" button below to view Eligibilities being considered and other IMPORTANT information.\n\nThe primary purpose of this position is to serve as a senior professional mechanical engineer, performing operations and maintenance (O&M) duties in support of a military installation.\nDuties\n\n Performs design and construction work in support of O&M engineering involving maintenance, repair, upgrade, and operation of mechanical equipment and systems to infrastructure facilities, including utility systems, at a military installation utilizing a professional knowledge of mechanical engineering.\n\n Develops or oversees the preparation of plans, instructions, and specifications for the repair, modification, maintenance, and operational testing of new types of systems with many component pieces of equipment, where the employee must search out and develop new or greatly modified approaches because available technical manuals or specifications are frequently inadequate\n\n Review, prepare, and/or develop design calculations, cost estimates, schedules, underlying analysis, technical drawings, and specifications related to mechanical engineering on a wide variety of projects sizes and complexities.\n\n Performs design and construction work in support of determining short- and long-range requirements for replacement of existing complex\n\n and major mechanical systems, equipment, etc.\n\n Provides professional consultation on a wide range of difficult mechanical engineering issues and problems. Provides advice to requesting organizations.\n\n Prepares/reviews designs for a variety of real property facilities construction projects, determining the design\n\n criteria, putting together cost estimates and time schedules, preparing A&E statements of work, etc.\n\nRequirements\nConditions of employment\n\n U.S. Citizenship is required\n\n Males must be registered for Selective Service, see Legal and Regulatory Guidance\n\n This posn is subject to provisions of the DoD Priority Placement Program\n\n For more information on Acq Demo please go to DoD AcqDemo Homepage http://acqdemo.hci.mil/ and Fact Sheet http://acqdemo.hci.mil/faq.html\n\n Relocation costs or other incentives may be available and considered by the organization.\n\n Selectee is expected to be granted with and/or maintain the appropriate security clearance required for the position.\n\n Employee must maintain current certifications\n\n This position may require drug testing, and the candidate may be subject to passing a drug test upon selection.\n\n Employee may be required to work other than normal duty hours, to include evenings, weekends and/or holidays\n\n Shift work and emergency overtime may be required\n\n Disclosure of Political Appointments\n\n All federal employees are required to have direct deposit.\n\n This announcement may result in a 120-day register that may be used to fill like vacancies for 120 days after the closing date. Applicants may be referred for consideration as vacancies occur.\n\n Depending on the type of position (competitive/excepted) you are selected for, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period OR 2-year trial period.\n\n Upon completion of your probationary/trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.\n\n This position may require travel.\n\n The employee must, within 30-days of assuming this position and by 31 October annually, thereafter, file an OGE-450, Confidential Financial Disclosure Report. Employee is required to attend annual ethics and procurement integrity training.\n\n Position may require an appropriate security clearance\n\n Work may occasionally require travel away from the normal duty station on military or commercial aircraft.\n\n Qualifications\n\n Experience requirements are described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Professional and Scientific Positions for this series in conjunction with the Individual Occupational Requirements described below.\n\nBASIC REQUIREMENT For 0830 series: All Professional Engineering Positions (You must provide a copy of your transcripts): A Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in 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.\n\nOR\n\nCombination 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 professional 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.\n\nIn addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:\n\nSPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least 1 year (52 weeks) of specialized experience at the next lower broadband NH-02, equivalent to the next lower grade GS-11 or equivalent in other pay systems. Specialized experience is experience in Perform design and construction work in support of operations and maintenance duties and lead project teams for multi-phase new constructions, renovation/repairs, and improvement projects. Manage operation and maintenance plans and programs for mission essential mechanical systems throughout the installations. Perform preliminary mechanical engineering analyses on large and complicated projects and conduct surveys, research, and investigation to determine what needs to be done to ensure systems and facilities meet current and future requirements. Serve as a consultant on all engineering aspects of projects and provide engineering support to trades and crafts shop. Maintain engineering data for all projects/programs and coordinate projects with engineers in other disciplines or with architects. NOTE: Due to the use of 120-day rosters, this period of experience may be completed within 120 days of the closing date of this announcement.\n\nKNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:\n\n Professional knowledge of mechanical engineering concepts, principles, and practices and familiarity with other engineering disciplines and architecture; a broad range of O&M engineering and construction standards, methods, practices, and techniques, materials, and equipment to ensure work is in compliance with regulations and standards; and the operations, products, services, needs, and goals of O&M programs and assigned organizations and related customers, functions, resources, and users.\n\n Knowledge of standard contracting regulations, practices, and procedures; and work classifications and the regulatory and statutory restrictions on the expenditures of appropriated and non-appropriated funds.\n\n Knowledge of health, safety, and environmental requirements as outlined in applicable standards, regulations, and/or technical orders.\n\n Knowledge of program planning and budgeting cycles, automated data processing concepts, financial control and budget systems, and management; and of environmental principles, practices, procedures, laws, regulations, and current legislative issues.\n\n Ability to plan, conduct, lead, and record site/facility surveys and inspections; research, analyze, interpret, and apply rules, regulations, and procedures to a variety of situations and to recommend timely and economical solutions; plan and organize work and coordinate with other engineering disciplines and architects.\n\n Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and maintain good working relations.\n\nPART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week.\n\nVOLUNTEER WORK EXPERIENCE: Refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (i.e., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student and social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge and skills that can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.\n\n Education\n\n ARE YOU USING YOUR EDUCATION TO QUALIFY? If position has a positive degree requirement or education forms the basis for qualifications, you MUST submit transcriptswith the application. Official transcripts are not required at the time of application; however, if position has a positive degree requirement, qualifying based on education alone or in combination with experience; transcripts must be verified prior to appointment. An accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education must accredit education. Click here to check accreditation.\n\nFOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.\n\n Additional information\n This is an acquisition demonstration project position NH-03 equivalent to a GS-12 to GS-13.\n\nInteragency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP): For information on how to apply as an ICTAP eligible click here. To be well-qualified and exercise selection priority for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must be rated well qualified or above for this position. You must submit a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty location.\n\nEmployed Annuitants (Reemployed Annuitants): Applicants in receipt of an annuity based on civilian employment in the Federal Service are subject to the DoD Policy on The Employment of Annuitants. Click here for more information.\n\nIf you have questions regarding this announcement and have hearing or speech difficulties click here.\n\nThis job announcement will be used to gather applications that may or may not result in a referral or selection.\n\n Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.\n\n 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 that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. .\n\n Review our benefits\n\n Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. 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