This position may be filled as a Temporary Promotion by a current permanent Army employee. The individual selected for this position may be extended in one year increments up to a maximum of five years or may be promoted without further competition. About the Position: Winchester, a city of 30,000, is located in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley 70 miles northwest of Washington, DC. Visit the US Army Corps of Engineers, Transatlantic Middle East District website at the link here.

Duties

Serves as staff advisor in the formulation of policy pertaining to life-cycle management, engineering organizational structure, and management theory. Serves as the Transatlantic Division's (TAD) Senior Regional Engineer and Team Leader, subject matter expert, and technical advisor for all engineering aspects of the Military Program, Foreign Military Sales Program, and Host Nation Programs. Provides regional leadership regarding all disciplines and facets of engineering for the Military, FMS, and HN Programs. Serves as a catalyst and champion for developing tools and procedures for maintaining and improving technical capabilities of the workforce throughout the Regional Business Center. Serves as a technical expert for the development of new and revised engineering guidance through the preparation of engineering and technical manuals, specifications, and engineering instructions. Makes staff and technical visits in support of major initiatives such as program and business process reviews, case studies, and command staff inspection visits to assess effectiveness, efficiency and quality within the Corps of Engineer functions. Develops plans and quality objectives for overall management of engineering activities throughout the Regional Business Center. Coordinates, reviews, evaluates, and revises existing engineering and construction policies, implementing directives, regulations, procedures, and other guidance.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• May require long and short Temporary Duty (TDY) approximately 20% of the time to Outside of the Continental U.S. (OCONUS) locations in the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility.
• Incumbent is required to file an OGE 450, Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, upon appointment and file annually.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Department of Army Civilian Employees 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. Basic Requirement for General Engineer, 0801: 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: One year of specialized experience which includes applying high levels of expertise in advanced engineering principles and proven methods in order to create solutions to non-routine complications; issue expert advice to senior levels of leadership covering broad program utilization; assisting with the creation of unique recommendations in order to formulate new policies and procedures for organizational implementation. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-13). You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Building and ConstructionExternal AwarenessGeneral Engineering Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-13).

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 RB-W31RAA US ARMY ENGINEER DIV TRANSATLANTIC DO NOT MAIL Winchester, VA 22604 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk