About the Position: Serves as project leader with responsibility to develop structural designs and/or review those prepared by Architect-Engineer firms for a variety of military structures and facilities.

Duties

Supervise and/or prepare preliminary and final structural designs. Review shop drawings submitted by contractors for adherence to specifications, and in situations where contract documents do not state requirements, utilizes own ingenuity and knowledge to resolve deficiencies. Develop design analyses for purpose of determining loads, stresses, foundation configuration, sizes and spacing of structural members and elements, and studies for the development of important details Prepare special and recurrent reports, perform research in a wide variety of sources, extracting, analyzing, and performing engineering computations upon data so derived, writing necessary portions and depicting information-as necessary. Coordinate the structural planning and design with other sections of the Branch, e.g. architectural, hydraulic, mechanical, electrical, to effect a structurally adequate and economic facility. Renders advice and assistance to other segments of the organization and to other agencies, as requested, in connection with structural engineering.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Temporary duty travel (TDY) is approximately 20% of the time in connection with stated duties.
• A valid state-issued driver's license is required to operate a government vehicle to areas that are not accessible by public transportation,
• Work outside the office involves exposure to varying weather conditions, walking over rough, uneven surfaces, climbing, stooping, bending, and entering confined spaces, requiring use of hard hats and appropriate safety gear.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or 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. Qualifications Requirements: To qualify for this position at grade level GS-12, you must meet the Basic Requirement and the Specialized Experience. Specialized Experience must be clearly evidenced and supported by your resume. Transcripts are required. Basic Requirement for Engineer: 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: To Qualify for Grade Level GS-12: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1) Developing preliminary and final structural designs; 2) Performing field inspections/investigations and preparing reports relating to structural deficiencies; 3) Conferring and collaborating with architect and engineers in the design and preparation of plans and specifications; and 4) Reviewing engineering documents for compliance with standards, soundness of engineering judgment, and technical adequacy. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Building and ConstructionDesignStructural EngineeringTechnical Competence Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-12).

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 RD-W2SD02 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-NEW YORK DO NOT MAIL New York, NY 10278 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk