About the Position: Serves as a maintenance engineer and project leader with the US Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, Sault Sainte Marie Project Office. Responsible for developing the designs, plans, and technical specifications for civil works infrastructure and maintenance projects such as, but not limited to, multipurpose dams, hydroelectric dams, river navigation structures, and multipurpose buildings.

Duties

Coordinates with other technical disciplines in design development to ensure that all areas of overlapping responsibilities receive proper design consideration, and that total project life cycle objectives, budgets and schedules are met. Reviews engineering contractors' and manufacturers' shop drawings to evaluate the adequacy and practicability of the design. Checks design characteristics proposed to determine suitability and compliance with the intended function. Performs or directs the surveys and investigations at project sites to determine conditions and investigates data prior to start of design, evaluates the data, and incorporates the salient factors into design considerations and solutions. Prepares designs, memoranda, plans, and technical specifications for multi-purpose facility maintenance, navigation structures, lock and dam equipment, infrastructure systems, electrical infrastructure and public facilities. Prepares reports, studies, relocations contracts, calculations, estimates, drawings, specifications and design analyses. Represents the Government at meetings with contractor and subcontractor representatives concerning, technical matters, and contract negotiations. Acts as Contracting Officers Representative (COR) on Government service and supply contracts. Consults with construction/maintenance personnel to resolve difficult and complex unforeseen problems and latent conditions developing during construction and based on the conditions, solves the problem and prepares project or contract modifications.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and 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. The initial cut-off for referral consideration 14 NOVEMBER 2023; applications received by this date will have the first opportunity for review; afterward, referrals will be pulled as vacancies occur. You are responsible for ensuring that all required documents are in your application package at the time of submission. Period of Eligibility: Your application package will remain active for 3 months from the date it is received. Unless deactivated due to selection or lost consideration, your application will expire at the end of the 3 month period. To receive further consideration, you must submit a new application package. Basic Requirement for an Engineer: Please see qualification link: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/civil-engineering-series-0810/ 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. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized experience : Ihave one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service which includes: 1.) developing and reviewing designs for civil works features; 2.) preparing design engineering documents such as drawings, calculations, and narratives; 3.) performing site evaluations and investigations; 4.) utilize engineering software for developing design computations for civil works infrastructure such as lock and dam machinery, equipment, structures, systems, and/or facilities.

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 RE-W2SM07 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-DETROIT DO NOT MAIL Detroit, MI 48231 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk