About the Position: Serves as the Lead Technician for the Geotechnical Branch Soils and Materials Processing Unit, with responsibly for planning, directing, and coordinating work activities involving soils and materials testing for navigation, flood risk reduction, and environmental mitigation projects, requiring the incumbent to apply a comprehensive, intensive, and practical knowledge in applying a wide range of concepts, practices, regulations, policies, and precedents.

Duties

Leads the team by identifying, distributing, and balancing workload and tasks among employees in accordance with established workflow, skill level and occupational specialization. Apply a wide range of qualitative and/or quantitative methods to identify, assess, analyze, and improve team effectiveness, efficiency, and work products. Provide critical soils and materials test data to the district for use in engineering studies and levee designs, revetments, riverbend cutoffs, earth embankments, earth-fill dams, floodwalls, and foundations. Develop and/or modify existing testing procedures, to accomplish special and/or unusual testing requirements. Discuss test results and findings with professional personnel from the district and recommend additional tests to obtain specific data requested. Evaluates soils and materials testing to ensure that testing requirements and methods are in accordance with established project requirements and policies and recommends changes or modifications where inconsistencies or irregularities are detected.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of up to 5% of the time.
• One-year probationary period may be required.

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 EmployeesDomestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel WorkforceInteragency Career Transition Assistance PlanLand Management Workforce Flexibility ActMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability RetirementPriority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference EligibleVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the 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. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) Providing critical soils and materials test data for use in engineering studies AND 2) Conducting in-depth visual classification of boring samples to ensure proper samples are selected for testing AND 3) Evaluating erratic data, concerns, or changing conditions AND 4) Analyzing test results to ensure testing procedures meet the requirements of Engineering Manuals (EMs) and American Standards for Testing and Materials (ASTMs). This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: LeadershipQuality AssuranceTechnical Competence 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. For the GS-12 you must have 52 weeks at the GS-11 level. With regards to time-in-grade validation, if you held a position other than a GS pay plan, be sure your resume includes the pay plan and the salary you earned during the assignment. Without this information, your time-in-grade validation may not be able to be verified and will result in your not meeting the time-grade requirement for this vacancy. A further explanation of the required time in grade documentation can be found under the Required Documents section of this announcement. Qualification requirement: Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

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.

Contacts

• Address GY-APF-W2R902 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT, NEW ORLEANS DO NOT MAIL New Orleans, LA 70160 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk