Banknote Designer (Apprentice)

Banknote Designer (Apprentice)

Department: Department of the Treasury

Location(s): Washington, District of Columbia

Salary Range: $34.17 - $81.01 Per Hour

Job Summary: This position is located at Bureau of Engraving and Printing, within the Product Design Division. As a Banknote Designer (Apprentice), you will be responsible for learning how to develop banknote designs and other security documents/products. The apprenticeship is of seven years duration and consists of supervised training in the various craft skills. The successful completion of the apprenticeship training will validate the apprentice as a Journeyman Banknote Designer.

Major Duties:

• The apprenticeship is of seven years duration and consists of supervised training in the various craft skills. The successful completion of the apprenticeship training will validate the apprentice as a Journeyman Banknote Designer. The apprentice is supervised by the Design Manager, with training guidance by Journeymen Banknote Designers, and progressively assumes advanced tasks with less supervision over the course of their Apprenticeship. Incumbent's work is closely inspected for quality and the Apprentice is expected to master all operations through experience and guidance. As a Banknote Designer (Apprentice), you will: Demonstrate an understanding of the overall printing processes and ability to leverage new processes and/or equipment to better facilitate a design. Develop design files using a variety of software applications including but not limited to the following: One System, Adobe Illustrator®, and Adobe Photoshop®. Build strong collaboration with the Office of Engraving to provide satisfactory continuous tone models (including but not limited to: portrait, ornament, title, vignette, guilloche models, et al) and output files that Engraving can use to create intaglio linework. Collaborate with the Office of Engraving when developing offset linework for currency design and other security products that is satisfactory to both entities. Develop an understanding of the limitations of manufacturing processes that may influence reproducibility, through working with Product Managers and manufacturing personnel and use this data to incorporate technical information to enhance the manufacturability of the product.

Qualifications: You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. *** PLEASE READ CAREFULLY*** You must meet the screen-out element, Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision, normally addressed at the beginning of the online questions. To meet the screen-out element, applicants must have: I am able to create original non-digital designs, drawings, or artwork with minimal supervision. In addition, you must also obtain an average score of two (2) for the following elements for this position as addressed through the online question in order to be considered minimally qualified. Your application will be evaluated in the following areas: Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision (screen-out) Technical Practices (theoretical, precise, artistic) Knowledge of Materials Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specifications, etc. (other than blueprints) Rating: A Two-phase rating method will be used. Answers to the online application questions will constitute 25% of your overall rating. The remaining 75% will be determined by your artwork. **You will need to submit a total of 6 pieces of artwork, 1 from each of the following categories: Do not submit more than 6 pieces of artwork. Black/White Portrait Black/White Landscape Black/White Still Life Color Still Life Figures Lettering Please identify what method or medium you used to create each piece of art that is submitted in your portfolio. To meet file size limitations, applicants may send separate emails for each submittal. Submit your artwork to banknotedesign@bep.gov in either a JPEG or PDF format. **Do not submit artwork via USA Jobs. Only artwork submitted to banknotedesign@bep.gov will be considered. Failure to submit artwork will disqualify applicants. Your artwork will be evaluated by a Subject Matter Expert (SME)/Art panel in the following areas: Layout Rendering 2D Perspective Balance and Symmetry Spatial Awareness **Failure to meet the minimum art panel score of 50 out of 100 will remove you from consideration.**

How to Apply: The Bureau of Engraving and Printing has partnered with the Treasury Common Services Center (TCSC) to provide certain personnel services to its organization. TCSC's responsibilities include advertising vacancies, accepting and handling applications, and extending job offers. You must complete this application process and submit any required documents by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing date of this announcement. We are available to assist you during business hours (normally 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET, Monday - Friday). If applying online poses a hardship, please contact us by noon ET on the announcement's closing date. Are you unsure how to write your federal resume? We are here to help. The Treasury Recruitment Service regularly offers Writing Your Federal Resume training sessions, and other career-related information sessions, to assist you in your career search journey. To register for a session, click here to go to our Career Information Sessions webpage. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis. Please contact us if you require this for any part of the application and hiring process. To begin, click Apply to access the online application. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to create one before beginning the application. Follow the prompts to select your résume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your application package, complete the Include Personal Information section as you deem appropriate and click to continue with the application process. You will be taken to the online application which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online application, verify the required documentation is included with your application package, and submit the application. If you wish to make changes/updates to your application and the vacancy is still open, you can click on the job announcement and "Update Application" to be taken back to your application. No updates can be made once the announcement has closed. For additional information on how to apply, please visit the Partnership for Public Service's Go Government website. For additional information on the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or the ADA, please click on the links below: The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (eeoc.gov) ADA.gov homepage. The Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act prohibits the Department of Treasury and its bureaus from requesting an applicant's criminal history record before that individual receives a conditional offer of employment. In accordance with 5 U.S. Code § 9202(c) and 5 C.F.R § 920.201 certain positions are exempt from the provisions of the Fair Chance to Compete Act. Applicants who believe they have been subjected to a violation of the Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act, may submit a written complaint to the Department of Treasury by email at, FairChanceAct@treasury.gov. To learn more, please visit our page at: Treasury.gov/fairchanceact. To preview the questionnaire: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12906003

Application Deadline: 2026-04-02