About the Position: As a Civil Engineer, incumbent prepares engineering drawings, detailed plans, technical specifications, quantity estimates, general designs, analyses, layouts, and computations for civil engineering features of projects to include features of river navigation systems, local flood protection, flood control reservoirs, and civil site development to include water, sewage, roads, drainage, and surveying. This position is located in Pittsburgh, PA.

Duties

Prepare engineering drawings, detailed plans, technical specifications, quantity estimates, general designs, analyses, layouts, and computations for civil engineering features. Perform technical and design assignments using CADD and civil engineering design software packages. Make field investigations of existing or proposed facilities prior to and after preparation of preliminary plans and/or during the contract-advertising period, and makes recommendations for redesign and modification. Prepare initial cost estimates for use in developing conceptual proposals, planning alternatives, and preliminary designs. Review contract drawings, quantity estimates and technical provisions of the specifications for conformance with good engineering practice, design requirements and general guidance and instructions. Provide advice and guidance to lower level engineers, technicians and other employees on solutions to technical problems. Represent the District when dealing with local, state, and municipal authorities and is primary point of contact on technical issues with customers. Monitor project scope, schedule, and budget and compares actual performance with established milestones.

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 Basic education and Specialized 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. In addition to meeting the basic requirement in the education section, 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: assisting with site evaluations and investigations; preparing engineering drawings, detailed plans, technical specifications, quantity estimates, general designs, analyses, layouts, and computations; using CADD and/or other engineering software in order to develop technical and design assignments; and monitoring project schedules and costs. 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, Architecture, or Environmental Engineering etc. (Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.) 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 preparing contract specifications and drawings for new construction related and civil works projects; preparing site reconnaissance reports; designing drainage structures, navigation structures, flood control features, roadway design & layout, utility relocations and construction; developing grading plans (such as alignments, profiles, sections, and design computations for new construction); developing contract bid schedules (such as measurement and payment, quantity estimates, and cost estimating).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, at the GS-12 level, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted. Continued Qualifications Requirements under Education section due to character limits.

Education

Basic Requirement for Civil Engineer:
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
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.

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

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