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Duties

Leads field inspections of construction sites, dredged disposal containment facilities, and other civil works projects. Plans, directs, and executes complex geotechnical studies, and designs for dredge disposal sites, shoreline revetments, streamline restorations, and other civil works projects, often sited on very poor or complex foundations. Performs bearing capacity, seepage, stability, and settlement analyses and prepares corresponding design reports. Prepares drawings, specifications, and other design documents for geotechnical portions of assigned projects. Reviews scopes of work, study documents, and designs for dredge disposal sites, shoreline revetments, streamline restorations, and other civil works projects. Serves as an expert geotechnical advisor on complex civil works construction projects. Mentors junior engineering staff, other internal District elements, and external stakeholders on geotechnical portions of assigned projects

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• The duties of this position require the incumbent to possess or obtain and maintain a valid state Driver’s License.
• The duties of this position require Travel within the District boundaries as well as for nationwide conferences and meetings, up to approximately 20% of the time.
• Physical Demands and Work Conditions: Most of the work is performed in an office setting; however, the employee may be required to perform on-site investigations in all types of climatic conditions and occasionally in hazardous areas.
• Periodically works outside in all types of weather, frequently in wet, muddy, very cold or hot, and dirty conditions, exposed to poisonous vegetation, reptiles, and insects and under noisy conditions.
• This type of work is performed only on an irregular or intermittent basis.
• The employee may be exposed to a variety of health and safety hazards requiring the use of protective equipment and clothing such as respirators, safety glasses, shoes, hats, body suits, and harnesses.
• The employee may carry/wear equipment (i.e., drill samples, etc.) up to 50 pounds in weight.
• The duties of this position require the incumbent to be registered as a Professional Engineer.

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 Requirement for Civil 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 experience 1) performing bearing capacity, seepage, stability, and settlement analyses for embankments and other structures supported by soils; 2) preparing geotechnical evaluations, design analyses and documents, drawings, and specifications for dredged disposal containment facilities, shoreline and streamline restorations, and other civil works projects; and 3) providing geotechnical guidance to junior engineers, representatives of internal and external federal agencies, and stakeholders. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12). 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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications.

Contacts

• Address RD-W2SF01 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-BALTIMORE DO NOT MAIL Baltimore, MD 21203 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk