Reclamation is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as a Civil Engineer. You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing water demands while protecting the environment. Duty Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico More Information Here

Duties

Position serves as an engineer carrying out conventional or routine civil engineering duties to include: Provide project management and provides technical proposals, analyses, evaluation, and oversight for assigned engineering, environmental, biological, and/or hydrologic projects and activities for the Office. Provide project planning, implementation, contract administration, and tracking and monitoring of the more complex or unique projects and activities throughout the Office. Collaborate and coordinate with stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams, resolving conflicts as they arise; assembles multidisciplinary teams, when necessary; develops and/or establishes project and activity goals and objectives and establishes the most effective means of tracking accomplishment of such; ensures projects and activities are in compliance with requirements, directives, and mandates; develops, analyzes, and/or monitors associated cost and budget data; and provides technical direction to team members, stakeholders, contractors, etc. throughout the life of the project and activity. As a multidisciplinary team lead and/or technical specialist, propose, develop, recommend, and evaluate projects and activities, ensuring that these planning activities incorporate new technological or scientific developments and studies. Develop and/or draft project goals and objectives; compiles, analyzes, and summarizes short- and long-term planning information and documentation; formulates activity budgets and cost estimates; develops or coordinates development of project schedules which include Gant Charts, critical path charts, and project deliverables which include project plans, policies and procedures, reports, and agreements. As a multidisciplinary team lead and/or technical specialist, implement project and activity plans, policies and procedures, and agreements. Provide leadership, guidance, and direction to implementation teams and ensures that project and activity planning documents, objectives, commitments, schedules, etc. are effectively and efficiently carried out, tracked, and updated. Resolves technical and administrative problems as they arise. Serve as a Contracting and/or Grant Officer's Representative on assigned projects and activities. Implement and administer a variety of assigned contracts, including, construction contracts, service contracts, Indian Self Determination Act contracts, interagency and financial assistance agreements, grants, and cooperative agreements. Initiates timely action on contract/grant items and ensures that they are carried to completion. Initiates timely action on contract/grant items and ensures that they are carried to completion. Research the background on problems, identifies and devises courses of action in coordination with the Contracting Officer or Grants Officer as appropriate, and prepares recommendations for decision by Program/Division Manager.

Requirements

Qualifications

In order to be rated as qualified for this position, the HR Office must be able to determine that you meet the specialized experience requirement - this information must be clearly supported in the resume. To qualify at the GS-12, you must first meet the Basic Requirements: Basic Requirement: Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelors 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. OR 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) 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 bachelors 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. And possess one year of Specialized Experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-11 level in federal service having demonstrated experience Specialized experience working with an interdisciplinary team as member or lead implementing programs, projects, policies, and procedures and working as the contract administrator in in four or more of the following areas: Project or Program management experience with river hydrology and biological processes. Adaptive management approaches that incorporate new technological or scientific developments and studies. Working with planning documents, objectives, and schedules. Implement/administer contracts and resolving problems as the arise. Leadership, guidance, and direction during complicated implementation processes. Developing and maintaining collaborative working relationships with state, federal, local, or tribal entities. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Time-In-Grade: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower-grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). Applicants eligible under the Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA) are not required to meet time-in-grade restrictions in order to be considered. You must meet all Eligibility and Qualification requirements, including time-in-grade restrictions and any selective placement factors if applicable, by 07/27/2023.

Education

This vacancy announcement allows substituting education for experience at the GS- 12 grade level. You must submit a copy of college transcript(s) (unofficial copy is acceptable) to support claimed education if substituting education for experience. Transcripts must include the name of the college or university and date the degree was conferred. A typed list of courses, grades, semester/quarter hours, GPA, etc. will not be accepted. Non-submission may result in being rated not-qualified for the position.

This position has a mandatory education requirement. You must submit a copy of college transcript(s) (unofficial copy is acceptable) to support claimed education if substituting education for experience. Transcripts must include the name of the college or university and date the degree was conferred. Non-submission will result in being rated not-qualified for the position.

You will be required to provide official college transcripts to verify educational qualifications, if selected. An official transcript must be sent directly from the University's Registrar's office and must be provided from the institution awarding the degree. Academic transcripts certified by notary publics are NOT official. Official transcripts must be submitted prior to reporting to work as a condition of employment. Failure to submit official transcripts may be grounds for dismissal or rescission of the job offer.

Accreditation: Only education from an accredited college or university recognized by the Department of Education is acceptable to meet education requirements or to substitute for experience, if applicable. For additional info, refer to the Office of Personnel Management and U.S. Department of Education.

Foreign Education: To receive credit for education completed outside the United States, you must show proof that the education has been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and such education has been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs. For additional info, refer to the U.S. Network for Education Information.

Contacts

• Address Upper Colorado Basin Region, Albuquerque Area Office Bureau of Reclamation 125 South State Street Room 8100 Salt Lake City, UT 84138 US
• Name: Kensey Lopati
• Phone: 801-524-3863
• Email: [email protected]