Job opening: Civil Engineer (Project Manager) - Direct Hire Authority
Salary: $71 099 - 92 429 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Oct 12 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
These positions are located in NPS Regional Office Serving Interior Regions 6,7 and 8, in the Facility Management Division.
Term positions do not convey permanent status in the Federal service.
Pay for Lakewood, CO is $91,753 - $119,280
Pay for Phoenix, AZ is $86,342 - $112,246
Pay for Santa Fe, NM is $83,634 - $108,724
Click here for the OPM Salaries and Wages to calculate locality pay.
Duties
Provides or manages project scoping, data and asset management, design phases (pre-design, schematic design, design development, construction documents), value analysis, and administration for a broad range of facilities and related maintenance operations, including construction, rehabilitation, and renovation and re-purposing.
Work may include, but is not limited to, the following type of structures or facilities: campsites, visitor centers, lodging, employee housing, potable water system, wastewater systems, communication systems, roads, bridges, trails, parking, bus facilities, transportation systems, and administrative structures as well as meeting budget and schedule requirements.
Work includes multiple simultaneous projects, ranging from small, single-discipline to large multi-disciplinary design and construction projects involving both single and multiple-year phasing, potentially funded from multiple funding sources and the employee will encounter work components requiring creative solutions that balance cultural and natural resource compliance issues and/or politically sensitive issues.
Provides professional guidance based on understanding of major principles and industry standards.
Performs contracting officer's representative duties for AE services and construction contracts. Serve as contracting officer's technical representative on construction projects.
Qualifications
All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-10/19/2023-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 of qualified specialized experience.
Selective Factor: Registered Professional Engineer: This position will perform or direct the performance of in-house designs, coordinating with other technical specialists to ensure building systems and infrastructures are in compliance with applicable standards. This position also will prepare design and construction documents (e.g. detailed plans, specifications, cost estimates, and other supporting documentation) which can require the stamp and seal of a registered, licensed engineer. You must be registered as a professional Engineer by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. You must submit proof of your license.
Basic Education: Civil Engineer (Project Manager) GS-810:A: You have successfully completed a bachelor's or higher degree in Engineering in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).OR B: You have successfully completed a bachelor's or higher degree in Engineering that included differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five (5) of the following seven (7) 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 C: You have successfully completed 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences, and that included the courses specified in B above. These courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. OR D: You have successfully completed a curriculum leading to a Bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field such as engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology AND have at least one year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. This must include 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. OR E: You have 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. Note: You must submit documentation of having passed the examination. OR F: You are currently registered as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensed as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. This registration must have been obtained by written test OR be in general engineering or a directly related engineering field and was gained by State grandfather or eminence provisions. NOTE: You must submit copies of your current registration.
In addition to meeting the basic education, you must also meet the following Specialized Experience:Possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience which included the development of civil engineering project construction drawings, technical specifications, and cost estimates as well as project management of multiple concurrent projects as substantiated by my resume/application; knowledge of project management principles and concepts; application of professional engineering principles, practices, procedures of project development; managing contractors or other project team members and providing operational leadership principles and risk management regarding work safety. To be creditable, this experience must have been equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of at least the GS-11 grade level in the federal service.
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 NPS Regional Office Serving Interior Regions 6,7 and 8
12795 W Alameda Parkway
Lakewood, CO 80228
US
- Name: Natalia Sanchez
- Email: [email protected]