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: This position is located at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District Headquarters in Concord, MA. The incumbent will work in the Water Management Section of the Engineering Division.

Duties

Serve as an Engineer in the Water Management Section, Engineering Division for the Army Corps of Engineers New England District. The incumbent serves as a principal advisor and consultant to the Chief, Water Management Section on hydraulic and hydrologic engineering matters. Assignments contain a combination of complex features which frequently involve significant or difficult-to-resolve technical problems and conflicts. You will perform the following duties: Conduct and work with others on a variety of hydrologic, hydraulic and water quality reviews, studies, and designs. Prepare hydrologic, hydraulic and water quality portions of preliminary investigations, detail project investigations, and review reports and design memoranda. Individually plan and conduct special studies and complicated investigations that may lack applicable precedents and criteria and/or adequate data. Utilize comprehensive computer programs (including HEC- HMS, HEC-RAS, etc.) to facilitate hydrologic and hydraulic engineering and water quality analysis. Provide advice to engineers in other branches, divisions and directorates on hydrologic, hydraulic and water quality matters relating to incumbent's assigned water resource and Hazardous, Toxic, and Radiological waste (HTRW) projects. Resolve unusual hydrologic, hydraulic, and water quality problems, issues, and conditions to ensure that organization's goals and objectives are met. Represent the district in meetings with federal, state and local government agencies.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a valid state driver's license within 30 days of employment.
• Recruitment/Retention/Relocation incentives MAY BE authorized.
• PCS/Moving Expenses MAY BE authorized.

Qualifications

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 Education Requirement: 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)2 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.) In addition to meeting the basic requirements above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience: GS-12: One year of specialized experience includes meeting any TWO of the following: 1) Plan and/or conduct hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for studies and/or designs of hydraulic structures such as spillways, outlet works, conduits, pipes, levees, floodwalls, storm water management structures, and/or reservoir civil works projects; 2) prepare hydrologic and hydraulic engineering studies and/or design analyses in support of plans for water resources and/or Hazardous, Toxic, and Radiological Waste (HTRW) site; and/or 3) provide technical oversight on assigned hydrologic and hydraulic projects. 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: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

• Address RD-W2SF05 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-NEW ENGLAND DO NOT MAIL Concord, MA 01742 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk