This is a permanent full time position located in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. For information on the area or duties of the position contact: [email protected]. Travel, transportation, and relocation expenses will NOT be paid. All travel, transportation, and relocation expenses associated with reporting for duty in this position will be the sole responsibility of the selected employee.

Duties

This position is supervised by the Supervisory Project Manager and is located at Cuyahoga Valley National Park. It serves as the General Engineer/ Civil Engineer/Project Manager for Cuyahoga Valley National Park, James A. Garfield National Historic Site and First Ladies National Historic Site. The position supports the park units in the formulation of projects for the management, maintenance, repair, and construction of NPS facilities, including buildings, utilities, trails, roads, and other physical assets. The incumbent will be principally working with funded projects. The incumbent may also provide project management expertise to funding sources for any high-cost projects. The incumbent serves as a Project Manager, providing professional engineering/architectural advice and guidance on the planning, designing, constructing, expansion, rehabilitation and/or re-purposing of existing and/or new structures and facilities. Projects support the implementation of NPS asset and management plans with the goal of improving visitor experience and protecting and restoring cultural, and natural resources. Program work may include, but is not limited to, the following type of structures or facilities: historic structures including a presidential home, multiple historic districts including Valley Railway and the Ohio & Erie Canal, visitor centers, water and wastewater systems, communication systems, roads, bridges, trails, parking lots, a scenic railroad, and administrative structures. Work includes multiple simultaneous projects, ranging from small, single-discipline to large multi-disciplinary design and construction projects, involving both single and multiple-year phasing, potentially funded from multiple funding sources. The incumbent will encounter work components requiring creative solutions that balance cultural and natural resource compliance issues and/or politically sensitive issues. Formal Architectural and Engineering Design Task Orders will often be awarded through regional contracts and as a park employee this position will serve as a technical park subject matter expert supporting the design development process. Physical Demands: The work requires some physical exertion, such as long periods of standing, or recurring and considerable walking, stooping, bending, crouching, and climbing such as in performing regular and periodic construction activities, field inspections, or to observe and study work operations in an industrial, storage, or comparable work area. Incumbent may carry light items such as books, instruments, and other similar materials. Depending on project assignments, the work may require periodic to frequent travel of up to five continuous working days and driving a motor vehicle long distances to reach remote parks. Work Environment: The work is usually performed in an office setting. The work area involves everyday risks or discomforts requiring safety precautions typical of offices or meeting and training rooms. The incumbent maybe required to travel to work sites which can involve occasional exposure to conditions in production facilities, laboratories, or construction sites requiring normal safety precautions. The incumbent may be required to participate in safety training such as fall protection, respiratory mask fit testing, or confined space entry training, as required by individual projects, to allow safe and thorough assessment of existing facilities and/or new construction. Area Information: No Government Housing is available. Cuyahoga Valley National Park is located in northeast Ohio along 26 miles of the Cuyahoga River in a suburban setting between the cities of Akron and Cleveland. The park's mission is to preserve and protect the historic, scenic, natural, and recreational values of the Cuyahoga River Valley for public use and enjoyment. The park is predominately forested with areas of agriculture, grasslands, wetlands, and waterways. Winters are moderately cold with frequent snowfall and average temperatures in the 20s and 30s. Summers are moderately warm with average temperatures in the 70s and 80s and occasional warm spells in the 90s. Rural, suburban, and urban communities are all within reasonable commuting distance to the park, which supports outstanding opportunities for outdoor recreation. Excellent K-12 schools, numerous colleges, universities, hospitals, and cultural attractions are available in the area. Visit the park's website at www.nps.gov/cuva.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-01/29/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience. BASIC REQUIREMENT: Your transcripts must document one of the following: 1) A bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: 1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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 circuit s; 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- 2. A 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 professional 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: Professional Registration or licensure- Current registration as a professional engineer 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; Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for professional registration, which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico; Specified Academic Courses - Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph A; or Related Curriculum - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.) -AND- To qualify for this position at the GS-12 grade level, you must possess one of the following minimum qualifications for the GS-0801-12 General Engineer or the GS-0810-12 Civil Engineer by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE GS-0801-12 GENERAL ENGINEER: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: serving as an expert engineer with complex multi-disciplinary design/construction/transportation, and deferred maintenance projects. Assist in planning, coordinating and executing engineering projects. Provide support in developing energy conservation and management programs. -OR- EXPERIENCE GS-0810-12 CIVIL ENGINEER: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: technical knowledge and experience responsible for initiating, establishing, and controlling multiple complex design and construction projects from inception through completion and serving as an expert civil engineer in the formulation and execution of planning, design and construction services, and coordinating projects with stakeholders, program managers and senior leadership of the organization. Conduct comprehensive condition assessments and cost deficiencies on constructed assets. Volunteer Experience: 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

To qualify for the Basic Education Requirement on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your 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.


There is no substitution of education for minimum qualification experience at the grade level(s) of this announcement.

Contacts

• Address Cuyahoga Valley National Park 15610 Vaughn Road Brecksville, OH 44141 US
• Name: Michele Hofer
• Email: [email protected]