General Engineer

Summary This position is located at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Plains Area (PA), National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, KS. In this position, you will work in the Engineering Project Management Group and be responsible for various functions involved in providing engineering expertise and managing contracts for maintenance, replacement and repair of systems and facilities. Responsibilities Serves as a project manager and Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) for all assigned projects. Work various types of infrastructure maintained including offices, conference rooms, shipping facilities, biocontainment facilities (BSL-2, BSL-3E and BSL-4 laboratories, BSL3Ag and BSL4 animal housing, insectaries). Determines efficient, effective, and feasible solutions to meet the project requirements and constraints. Provides multi-disciplinary engineering resource and project support for facility operations includi...