About the Position: This position serves as the Senior Resident Engineer and Administrative Contracting Officer (ACO) with direct responsibility for the Resident Office mission goals within District guidelines, and the overall management of the Resident Office. This position is a Defense Acquisition Workforce Position in accordance with 10 USC § 1705(g).

Duties

Confers with managers to plan for accomplishment, review status and progress, provide management guidance and direction and provide advice on construction matters. Monitors construction fiscal progress, analyzes deviations and problems, and develops solutions to assure commitments are met. Conducts periodic coordination meetings and project reviews to insure full understanding and communication on critical project issues, budget, and schedule. Identifies needed changes in corporate emphasis during any project phase and approves changes recommended by technical functions to maintain approved schedules and costs. Oversees all phases of project to ensure integration and coordination within established time frames and maintains corporate goals and objectives, consistent with commitments and policy, as well as measurable performance criteria. Provides for the inspection of all contract work performed to ensure that work is accomplished in accordance with contract requirements; and participates in resolving project scope, time, cost and quality issues to meet customer/partner expectations. Supervises a staff of project engineers, subject matter experts, construction representatives, civil engineering technicians, quality assurance testing laboratory, and administrative and support team members. Assigns, reviews, and approves work; evaluates employee performance and plan; provide both long range and short-term training and assist employees in career development; recommend personnel actions and maintains good employee relations. Keeps employees informed, counsels employees when necessary or requested, and administers constructive discipline. Monitors field construction sites, reviews construction operations, and determines if work is proceeding in a safe manner, on schedule and in conformance with contract requirements. Promotes and encourages the establishment and application of an effective and sound safety program by both government and contractor employees. Oversees all phases of project to ensure integration and coordination within established time frames and maintains corporate goals and objectives, consistent with commitments and policy, as well as measurable performance criteria.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must obtain and maintain a Contracting Officer certification.
• Annual Financial Disclosure is required.
• Acquisition Level I in Contracting is required.
• Supervisory Probationary period may be required.
• Position requires a 3 year service agreement.
• Temporary Duty (TDY) travel of up to 10% may be required.

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. Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Position may be filled as a temporary promotion or temporary reassignment not to exceed one year by a current, permanent Army employee. Temporary promotions or temporary reassignments may be extended up to a maximum of five years and may be made permanent without further competition. In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or 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 Supervisory Interdisciplinary 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: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes:1.) Manage construction aspects of major projects and resolves problems relating to design and construction delays, excessive costs, other technical problems, enforce safety provisions, and initiates corrective actions; AND (2) Determines the impact of proposed changes; and approves recommendations for contractor project changes; AND (3) Interprets plans, field inspection, approves pay estimate data, required work schedules, certificates and test results on equipment and materials and enforcing safety provisions, OR (4) Directs inspection of construction operations for compliance with intent of design, OR (5) Ensure compliance with guidance, laws, regulations, and policy for assigned construction programs and projects. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-13). 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. Selective Placement Factor: (skill, knowledge, ability or other worker characteristic basic to and essential for satisfactory performance of the job). Selective Placement Factors are a prerequisite to appointment and represent minimum requirements for a position. Applicants who do not meet it are ineligible for further consideration. The Selective Placement Factor for this position is: Licensed Professional Engineer. This position requires registration or licensure in Professional Engineering. Registration may be in any state, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia. (NOTE: You must provide/upload your Professional License/Registration as proof of claimed registration/license. Failure to upload the required documentation will result in being found ineligible for the position.) You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Contract AdministrationLeadershipQuality AssuranceTechnical 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-13).

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 RL-W07404 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-MOBILE DO NOT MAIL Mobile, AL 36628 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk