The Volpe Center is hiring up to two GS-14 General Engineers with strong data analytics backgrounds as technical leads for multidisciplinary transportation projects. Selected candidates will oversee and execute complex measurement, modeling, and analytical studies.
Responsibilities include applying advanced data science, statistical modeling, and core engineering principles to evaluate transportation systems, fuel burn, emissions, noise, or air quality across diverse sponsor initiatives.
As a General Engineer, you will: Performs and oversees expert engineering analyses and thoroughly evaluates the various alternatives for meeting the objectives of the assignment. Coordinates and directs the work of other engineers who are assigned to accomplish portions of broad tasks. Plans, designs, and implements qualitative and quantitative analyses to objectively address complex needs for projects.
Participates in building and maintaining effective teams independently and in conjunction with the Division Chief/project leader, through support to recruitment, mentoring, and performance feedback. Prepares progress reports, published technical reports or chapters of reports, graphical communications, peer reviewed papers, and delivers presentations to Volpe Center management, sponsor representatives, and representatives of other agencies or bodies.
The ideal candidate is a versatile technical leader who seamlessly blends a strong engineering foundation with advanced data science and analytical skills. They bring demonstrated experience in data modeling, measurement, and statistical analysis, ideally applied to transportation domains such as emissions, fuel burn, air quality, noise, or vibration.
A collaborative team player, the candidate excels at managing diverse project portfolios and adapting their quantitative expertise across varying sponsor needs.
MANDATORY EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: A.
DEGREE: ENGINEERING --To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
<B>OR</b> B. COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE -- College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 1.
Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1 , or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration.
For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. 2. 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.
3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. 4.
Related curriculum -- 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive). All applicants must meet the education requirements under A or B to qualify for applying to an engineering position. Transcripts are required for this position.
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This position is with Office of the Secretary of Transportation, Department of Transportation.
The posted pay range is $142452 – $187093/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-09-28.
There are 2 openings for this position.
This is a Full Time position.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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