This position is located in Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (CHOH), in the Professional Services Division. The incumbent is responsible for initiating, establishing, guiding, and controlling the planning, design, and construction programs of the CHOH from inception through completion. Open to the first 50 applicants or until 08/28/2023 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.

Duties

The major duties of the Supervisory Civil Engineer position include, but are not limited to, the following: Initiates, establishes, guides, and controls a broad range of project planning, design, and construction efforts from inception through completion. Supervises an interdisciplinary staff of project managers and support staff to accomplish park priorities in project management. Serves as a member of the park's senior leadership team and advises the Superintendent and Deputy Superintendent on all aspects of project management, scheduling, prioritization, and funding. Perform supervisory functions including assigning, directing and reviewing the work of the subordinate employees from a variety of backgrounds, and with different levels of experience or training according to the division's work plan and strategic plans.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-08/28/2023-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount qualified specialized experience. To qualify for the Civil Engineer GS-14 position, you must meet one of the following Basic Requirements in order to be eligible for this position: Selective Placement Factor: This position requires the incumbent to possess and maintain a license as a registered Professional Engineer from a state or territory of the United States. Candidates who do not meet this requirement by close of this announcement will receive no further consideration for this position. - AND - Civil Engineering Series, 0810: This position has a positive education requirement which requires that you have a degree in engineering: (A) To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's 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 - (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: 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. 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. 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. 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 bachelor's 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. (The above examples of related curriculum are not all-inclusive.) - AND - To qualify for the Supervisory Civil Engineer position at the GS-14 grade level, you must meet all the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience must include all of: (1) Managing planning, design, and construction processes associated with historic architecture, architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, transportation, urban planning, or project management programs. (2) Managing the design process for large, complex projects using A/E firms. (3) Creating project funding requests and managing multi-year work plans for major construction projects. (4) Having experience with a wide variety of projects to include historic rehabilitation and civil engineering. Project work may include, but is not limited to, the following type of structures or facilities: potable water systems, wastewater systems, dams, canals, boat ramps, culverts, roads, walkways, parking, or historic structures. You must include hours per week worked. You must include months, years and hours per week worked to receive credit for your work and/or volunteer experience. One year of specialized experience is equivalent to 12 months at 40 hours per week. Part-time hours are prorated. You will not receive any credit for experience that does not indicate exact hours per week or is listed as "varies". Experience listed as full-time will be credited at 40 hours per week. Volunteer Experience: 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.

Education

To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your 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.

Contacts

• Address Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park 142 W. Potomac St Williamsport, MD 21795 US
• Name: NCR SHRO
• Email: [email protected]