This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: This position is a structural engineer within the Structural Engineering Section of the Design Branch of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District located in Concord, MA.

Duties

The incumbent of this position functions as a Structural Engineer or Lead Engineer whose responsibility includes the following: Resolve unique structural problems such as the design of large sector and flap gates that are subject to hurricane wave loadings. Conduct site inspections, form conclusions and provide reports on recommendation for action. Integrate ideas, coordinate design, resolve technical problems, and extend advice and opinions in order to obtain a mutually acceptable job. Prepare and review internal and external correspondence, schedules, engineering design estimates, monitoring expenditures, and coordinates various work features within and outside organization. Prepare very difficult and complex designs and analyses that involve unusual loadings, foundation conditions, space, pressures and stresses. Provide advice and training to engineers regarding computer-aided structural analysis and design. Coordinate work with other team members to produce a quality technical product. Serve as technical advisor to peers and lower level engineers, technicians, and other Project Delivery Team (PDT) members on solutions to technical problems.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position involves regular and recurring exposure to moderate physical activity such as:
• long periods of walking in confined spaces, at times potentially not in the fully up-right position; recurring bending, crouching, stooping, stretching, reaching, climbing ladders or similar activities; or recurring lifting of moderately heavy items.
• This position requires periodic work in outdoor conditions involving moderate exposure to precipitation and cold/hot weather.
• The work requires wearing special protective clothing and/or using protective equipment such as hard hats, steel-toes shoes, and a safety harness as applicable when doing field work.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a valid state driver's license within 30 days of employment.
• Recruitment/Retention/Relocation Incentives are NOT authorized.
• PCS/moving expenses are NOT authorized.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or 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 (Structural): 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: GS-11:Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes meeting one of the following: (1) Apply professional structural engineering concepts in the course of developing design solutions; (2) perform field inspections of structural features of ongoing or completed projects; or (3) perform basic analyses of structural elements. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09). OR Education: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Civil Engineering. OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages. GS-12:Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes meeting ANY TWO of the following under the direction of licensed civil or structural engineer: (1) prepare routine designs of structural features of civil works or vertical construction projects, to include dams, tunnels, bridges, levees, and timber, concrete, masonry or steel framed buildings, which involve unusual loadings, foundation conditions, geometries, pressures and stresses; (2) perform routine analyses of structural features of completed civil works projects, to include dams, tunnels, bridges, levees, and timber, concrete, masonry or steel framed buildings; (3) perform field inspections of structural features of completed civil works or vertical construction projects, to include dams, tunnels, bridges, levees, and timber, concrete, masonry or steel framed buildings, to identify structural problems and alternatives for repair; and (4) prepare finding of fact reports and prepare reports of structural corrective action. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). GS-12:Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted. Selective Placement Factor: To qualify for the GS-12 grade level, this position has a selective placement factor which must be met prior to employment and for continued employment. This position requires a current state issued Professional Engineer License/Registration (P.E.) at the GS-12 grade level.

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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/

Contacts

• Address RD-W2SF05 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-NEW ENGLAND DO NOT MAIL Concord, MA 01742 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk