About the Position: SR team member with higher level experience is responsible for geotechnical engineering/soil-rock investigations supporting District projects. Position is with the US Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, Buffalo Technical Services Division, Design Branch Costal & Geotechnical Design team, Buffalo, NY.

Duties

Responsible for providing technical guidance and overseeing work of junior engineers, as well as providing reviews of geotechnical products, including District Quality Control (DQC) and Agency Technical Review (ATR). Acts as lead geotechnical design team member providing geotechnical engineering expertise to the design team through all phases of a project (reconnaissance, feasibility, engineering and design, contract procurement, and construction). Coordinates work with project managers to establish schedules, design estimate costs, and resource allocations involving geotechnical engineers, multiple disciplines, multiple branches, districts, and research laboratories. Formulates or assists in the development of project management plans, quality control plans, and actively tracks the design progress of assigned projects. Directs field investigations involving various aspects of geotechnical engineering including installation of monitoring wells, inclinometers, piezometers, and other geotechnical monitoring instrumentation. Conducts and directs design studies and computations of features concerning principles of geotechnical engineering including soil mechanics, rock gradations, soil classifications, permeability/seepage, and other geotechnical principles. Prepares reports or design analyses for geotechnical structures or foundations for investigations, feasibility studies, preliminary design, and final design. Prepares government estimates, scopes of work, requests for proposals and manages and tracks the progress and adequacy of work assigned to A-E contractors. Reviews deliverables prepared by A-E contractors covering civil projects for soil and foundation features.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• PE (Professional Engineering) License required.
• Higher level Geo-technical Engineer experience (3-5 years)
• Professional Engineering (PE) license required.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and exprience 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. Basic Requirement for Civil Engineer (Geotechnical):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.ORB. 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.SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: One year of specialized experience which includes extensive experience serving in a senior-level role leading, coordinating, and overseeing subsurface investigations, geotechnical analyses, design and management of products in support of flood control projects such as levees, dams, and/or floodwalls as well as functioning as a technical expert in levee and/or dam safety inspections and risk assessments. Specialized experience also includes using borings and soil/rock testing to define subsurface conditions for use in a broad range of complex seepage, stability, settlement and foundation evaluations that are the basis for design reports and contract documents for both new projects and designs of remedial measures at existing projects, providing technical guidance and overseeing work of junior engineers, and providing detailed reviews of geotechnical products. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: DesignGeotechnical EngineeringProject ManagementWriting

Education

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 GJ-APF-W2SM05 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT, BUFFALO DO NOT MAIL Louisville, KY 40201 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk