The Bureau of Reclamation, California-Great Basin is seeking interested internal candidates to be considered for a professional development opportunity with the South Central California Area Office! This opportunity is for a detail or temporary promotion, not to exceed 1 year, Location - Fresno, California

Duties

The primary duties of this position are: Planning, conducting, and/or supervising lower-graded personnel executing office studies and field investigations to resolve special fishery and/or engineering problems. Planning the execution of required construction activities to accomplish repairs, rehabilitation, modifications, and additions to assigned facilities. Conducting the administration of contracts delegated to the division; serves as Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR) for all construction and maintenance contracts. Directing the work of subordinates in conducting groundwater studies, facility engineering, salinity, water quality, and water control programs. Principal assistant for the maintenance of canal systems and supervises the overall maintenance programs. Working cooperatively with outside engineers, contractors, architects, and others in developing mutually satisfactory plans and proposals presented to the Bureau for approval. Performing project management with regard to all phases of project development. Supervising and reviewing field compilation of data used to determine payment to contractor and development of findings of fact. Collaborating with other division chiefs and supervisors on work issues affecting their operations. Supervising a staff of engineers, construction inspectors, and material engineering technicians.

Requirements

Qualifications

Applicants currently at the GS-13 may apply to be detailed into this position. Applicants currently at the GS-12 level may apply to be temporarily promoted into this position. Candidates applying for temporary promotion must qualify on the basis of Specialized Experience. Specialized Experience: The candidate's resume must describe specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-12 level in federal service. Specialized experience is defined as: Professional civil engineering experience overseeing contractor's construction operations and inspecting work performed on major construction or rehabilitation of water resources projects which includes inspections of civil, and electrical and mechanical equipment and systems components for compliance with construction specifications. Examples of projects: earth and concrete dams, large reservoirs, construction of canals for irrigation systems; installation or rehabilitation of large complex electrical and mechanical equipment and systems found in power generating plants, switchyards, pumping plants; relocation, construction of roads, bridges, and utilities in connection to a major construction project. Experience should demonstrate leading field personnel in construction activities; and interpreting construction plans and specifications, resolving compliance issues. These examples are not all-inclusive.

Education

This position does not allow for substituting education for experience.

This position has a mandatory education requirement. Applicants must submit a copy of college transcript(s) (unofficial copy is acceptable) to support claimed. Transcripts must include the name of the college or university and date the degree was conferred. Non-submission will result in being rated not qualified for the position.

Basic Education Requirement: Applicants must meet the basic education requirement for this position:

A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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, and 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 the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.

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 bachelor's 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.

Contacts

• Address SCCAO Bureau of Reclamation 1243 N Street Fresno, CA 93721 US
• Name: BOR CA Great Basin Human Resources Office
• Phone: 916-978-5476
• Email: [email protected]