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: Serves as a professional engineer on all hydraulic and hydrologic studies pertaining to the Great Lakes and their outflow channels (i.e., Niagara River, St. Lawrence River).

Duties

Maintains and continually updates a database on lake levels, river flow, precipitation and water equivalent of snow pack on the entire Great Lakes Basin. Obtains necessary data from the U.S. Geological Survey, NOAA, National Weather Service, Canadian Federal agencies, Canadian and U.S. hydropower plants on the Great Lakes system, St. Lawrence Seaway Authority, and other Corps Districts. Provides expert technical assistance and services to such entities as the International Niagara Board of Control and International Lake Ontario - St. Lawrence River Board, (all of which support and report to the International Joint Commission). Works to develop procedures for assessing completeness and applicability of data and development of charts, tables and graphs which display pertinent level and flow data on the Great Lakes or Genesee River. Exercises technical supervision over junior engineers and/or engineering technicians while accomplishing assigned projects. As assigned, conducts special studies in support of LRD Water Control Center and other Districts, in addition to the International Board and Committee assignments.

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/ 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 Civil Engineer (Hydraulics): 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 experience in the theories, principles and concepts of hydrologic and hydraulic engineering, as well as applying standard engineering practices, methods and techniques for assigned duties on more complex or specialized projects such as: Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), software such as ArcPro, ArcGIS, or QGIS; Obtaining, organizing, overlaying various environmental, infrastructure, commercial and residential data specially to assess impacts of water level fluctuations; and for GIS data visualization to assist decision makers and mapping for communication to the public; performing computer programming, especially in Python, but also Visual Basic or VBA; or other general programming experience; Writing code to manipulate time series, especially pertaining to hydrologic variables, as well as general automation of data manipulation and data formatting processes; Hydrologic and Hydraulic (H&H) modeling using software such as HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, HEC-ResSim, or other software, especially application to large lakes and rivers; performing optimization of complex systems, including Monte Carlo simulations, linear optimization, and/or machine learning; Identifying water regulation schemes that minimize the economic and environmental impacts of variable lake and river water levels and flows. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). 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.

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 RE-W2SM05 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-BUFFALO DO NOT MAIL Buffalo, NY 14207 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk