This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the Department of Defense Direct Hiring Authority (DHA) for Certain Military Personnel to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: This is a permanent position with the U.S. Army Engineer Division, Transatlantic Middle East District (TAM) located in Winchester, VA. Visit the US Army Corps of Engineers, TAM website at the link www.tam.usace.army.mil/

Duties

Serve as the structural engineer within a multi-disciplinary team, designing unique facilities for the U.S. military and host nation partners. Examples include aircraft hangars, training facilities, dormitories, and air traffic control towers. Develop original structural plans, design analyses, and specifications for unique building design. Review studies, scopes of work, and preliminary and final design plans prepared in-house and by Architect-Engineers to assure that the structural building design is carefully conceived. Review preliminary and final structural building design plans assuring that their components are technically adequate, compliant of changes and instructions, is feasible, clear, accurate in detail, and consistent with related, engineering features. Review incoming directives, scopes of work, and criteria for the structural building design features of a projects to determine the type of project involved and the feasibility of using agency requirements. Visit construction sites to investigate and resolve problems which arise during the course of construction, and to interpret construction plans and specifications when questions arise as to the intent of design. Review shop drawings and materials and equipment substitutions affecting design.

Requirements

• May be required to make long and short term travel to the CENTCOM AOR approximately 15% of the time.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. GS-07: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes executing specific rules, regulations, or procedures that comprise a complete segment of an assignment or project of broader scope. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-05). OR Education: One full year of graduate level education in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Engineering, Geology, Biology, Chemistry, or Architecture.OR Superior Academic Achievement. In order to be creditable under this provision, Superior Academic Achievement must have been gained in a curriculum that is qualifying for the position to be filled, such as that identified in Education above. Superior Academic Achievement is based on:(1) Class Standing - Applicants must be in the upper third of the graduating class in the college, university, or major subdivision, such as the College of Liberal Arts or the School of Business Administration, based on completed courses; OR(2) Grade-Point Average (G.P.A.) - Applicants must have a grade-point average of either (a) 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B" or better) as recorded on your official transcript, or as computed based on 4 years of education, or as computed based on courses completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum; or (b) 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B+" or better) based on the average of the required courses completed in the major field or the required courses in the major field completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum.; OR(3) Honor Society Membership - Applicants may be considered eligible based on membership in one of the approved national scholastic honor societies listed by the Association of College Honor Societies (https://www.achsnatl.org/). OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) by 18. Add the two percentages. GS-09: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes reviewing preliminary and final structural building design plans prepared by other engineers, to assure technical adequacy and compliance with all instructions and changes provided during the course of design development; Visiting sites of proposed future projects to acquire field data necessary to support design; Resolving design discrepancies, and integrating various technical requirements into designs; Performing Value Engineering studies of all elements of design in their specialty, to achieve essential characteristics at minimum cost; Advising Architectural Engineers concerning the preparation of design drawings for change orders and supplemental agreements; Reviewing shop drawings, materials and equipment substitutions affecting design. OR Education: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Engineering, Geology, Biology, Chemistry, or Architecture. OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the first year (total graduate semester hours minus 18) by 18. Add the two percentages. GS-11: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes reviewing preliminary and final structural building design plans prepared by other engineers, to assure technical adequacy and compliance with all instructions and changes provided during the course of design development; Visiting sites of proposed future projects to acquire field data necessary to support design; Resolving design discrepancies, and integrating various technical requirements into designs; Performing Value Engineering studies of all elements of design in their specialty, to achieve essential characteristics at minimum cost; Advising Architectural Engineers concerning the preparation of design drawings for change orders and supplemental agreements; Reviewing shop drawings, materials and equipment substitutions affecting design. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09). OR Education: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Engineering, Geology, Biology, Chemistry, or Architecture. OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages. GS-12: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes reviewing preliminary and final structural building design plans prepared by other engineers, to assure technical adequacy and compliance with all instructions and changes provided during the course of design development; Visiting sites of proposed future projects to acquire field data necessary to support design; Resolving design discrepancies, and integrating various technical requirements into designs; Performing Value Engineering studies of all elements of design in their specialty, to achieve essential characteristics at minimum cost; Advising Architectural Engineers concerning the preparation of design drawings for change orders and supplemental agreements; Reviewing shop drawings, materials and equipment substitutions affecting design. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). In addition to meeting the qualification requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the basic requirement listed below:

Education

Basic Requirement for Civil Engineer (Structural):

A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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
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), 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, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. 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 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.


FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

• Address FV-APF-W31R30 ENDIS MIDDLE EAST DO NOT MAIL Alexandria, VA 22315 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk