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Duties

As a Dredge Program Resident Engineer, you will: Serve as the Leader of a team comprised of contracted Architectural and Engineering (AE) firm engineers, Engineering Technicians, Naval Architect, Mechanical Engineers, and Electrical Engineers. Serve as coach, facilitator and/or negotiator in coordinating team initiatives. Report to the Division and Branch Chiefs on team and individual work accomplishments, problems, progress and individual and team needs. Serve as primary technical point of contact for the onsite management, control, coordination, execution, and oversight of assigned Dredge Recapitalization and Dredge Overhaul projects at various shipyards during vessel construction. Perform quality assurance inspection of ongoing MDC dredge projects under construction including detailed documentation and reporting of onsite construction progress. Ensures that shipyard safety plans are adhered to at contractor facilities. Interface with the district customer representatives onsite to review construction quality, layout/ arrangement, and progress. Prepare, review and coordinate specifications for the Dredge Recapitalization and Dredge Overhaul projects including those of which involve novel design or construction features, for which previous specifications are inadequate. Make inspections at contracting yards during construction, investigates problems and controversies and, within contractual authority makes on-the-spot decisions as necessary to expedite the work. Perform studies and prepares design drawings for construction, modification, repair and maintenance of dredges. Utilize existing computer programs, in accomplishing various work assignments which result in a greater speed and accuracy in the performance of such assigned tasks. Review contractor/architect engineer’s deliverables against specification requirements.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Incumbent may be subject to a one year probationary period.
• Travel is up to 75% of the time to various sites (i.e., the MDC Headquarters Office, USACE District Offices, Customer Facilities, and Contractor Facilities) within the United States.
• Must have or be able to obtain and maintain a valid state driver’s license.
• Incumbent is required to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, upon entering the position and annually, in accordance with DoD Directive 5500-7-R, Joint Ethics Regulation, dated 17-Nov-2011.

Qualifications

THIS IS A DIRECT HIRE SOLICITATION - THIS POSITION IS BEING ADVERTISED THROUGH THE DIRECT-HIRE AUTHORITY (DHA) FOR CERTAIN PERSONNEL (MODIFIED DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY, SECTION 1109; PL, 116-92, DATED 12/20/2019). (This authority is primarily being used to appoint qualified candidates who are not existing Department of Defense competitive service employees with permanent status. Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and 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 the Architect 0808 Series: A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in architecture or in a related field that included 60 semester hours of course work in architecture or related disciplines of which at least (1) 30 semester hours were in architectural design, and (2) 6 semester hours were in each of the following: structural technology, properties of materials and methods of construction, and environmental control systems. OR B. Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the arts and sciences underlying professional architecture, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the architectural principles, methods, and techniques and their applications to the design and construction or improvement of buildings. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by at least one of the following: (1) Related Curriculum - Degree in architectural engineering provided the completed course work in architectural engineering provided knowledge, skills, and abilities substantially equivalent to those provided in the courses specified in statement A above, or (2) Experience: 1 year of experience in an architect's office or in architectural work for each year short of graduation from a program of study in architecture. In the absence of any college courses, 5 years of such experience is required. This experience must have demonstrated that you have acquired a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles and theories of professional architecture. Basic Requirement for the Civil Engineering 0810 Series, Mechanical Engineering 0830 Series, and the Electrical Engineering 0850 Series: Please see education section below. In addition to meeting one of the basic requirements above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: (1) leading a multi-disciplined team for marine vessel projects; (2) performing quality assurance inspections on dredge projects; and (3) Preparing design drawings for construction, modification, repair and maintenance of dredges.

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.

Basic Requirement for the Civil Engineering 0810 Series, Mechanical Engineering 0830 Series, Electrical Engineering 0850 Series, and the Naval Architecture Series:

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)1, 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.)

Contacts

• Address RD-W428AA US ARMY ENGINEERS MARINE DESIGN CENTER DO NOT MAIL Philadelphia, PA 19103 US
• Name: Brendan McNichol
• Phone: 215-656-6708
• Email: [email protected]