This vacancy is for a Mechanical Engineer, GS-0830-12, in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Facilities and Engineering Department, Petaluma, CA.
You will serve as a Mechanical Engineer you will serve as a Project Manager within a multi-disciplinary architectural and engineering team.Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include: Plans specific objectives, milestones, and phases for complex projects, and makes needed innovations and modifications.
Provides detailed technical decisions regarding scope, intent and extend of work, includes site investigation involving facilities type engineering issues, problem identification and documentation as required to define the scope of the problem Conceives, analyzes, designs, plans, and executes large and/or complex designs for diverse range of engineering projects.
Plans and executes a wide variety of logistics responsibilities including contractual support, logistics planning and handling of logistics problems Serves as a Construction Technical Representative, providing authoritative technical advice and guidance to the contractor performing work required by the contract Participates on a multi-disciplinary team performing Facility Condition Assessment inspects at CG facilities.
This position does have a positive education requirement. If you are including education on your resume, report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Required Documents section for detail.
College Transcript: If you are qualifying based on education, submit a copy of your college transcript that lists college courses detailing each course by the number and department (i.e., bio 101, math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours and grade earned. You must submit evidence that any education completed in a foreign institution is equivalent to U.S. education standards with your resume.
You may submit an unofficial copy of the transcript at the initial phase of the application process. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken.
Transcripts--If this position requires specific educational course work to qualify, or you are qualifying based in whole or part on education, you are required to provide all unofficial transcripts (undergraduate, graduate, etc.) by the closing date of this announcement or you will be disqualified from further consideration. Please ensure that all documentation is legible.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application.
See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications click here Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered. Student Loan Selectee(s) for this position who are newly appointed to a permanent or term position may be eligible for student loan repayment up to $10,000 (pre-tax) for one calendar year. More than one loan may be repaid if the combined repayments do not exceed $10,000.
Receipt of this incentive will require a three-year service agreement.
Stephanie.L.Williams@uscg.mil · (571) 614-2442
This position is with U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security.
The posted pay range is $111896 – $145468/yr.
Applications close on 2026-10-22.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government · Retrieved 2026-10-14 · Not affiliated with or endorsed by OPM or USAJOBS.gov
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