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: The office is located in West Palm Beach with easy access to a major interstate highway, free parking, and a flexi-time work schedule. West Palm Beach offers many attractions, resorts, natural reserves, cultural venues and sporting activities.

Duties

Perform hydrologic analyses and numerical modeling that focuses on the evaluation and implementation of surface and ground water numerical models. Apply groundwater modeling software (i.e., Groundwater Modeling System, MODFLOW-based programs, Advanced Integrated Hydraulic Logical Modeling System) in order to simulate groundwater processes and evaluate effect. Use Geographic Information System (GIS) software to manipulate land use/soil type covers, topography and Next Generation of Weather Radar (NEXRAD) rainfall for development of hydrologic model inputs. Develop flood inundation maps based on hydraulic model output and integration with digital elevation models. Develop data collection scopes of work for contracting collection of topographic/bathymetric data and field data measurements of water stages, water currents and salinity. Prepare correspondence, engineering reports, and technical data in response to inquiries from senior management and higher headquarters, other Federal agencies, and state and local governments. Prepare presentation materials and handouts on the status and progress of assigned tasks and projects. Participate and provide comments to technical reports generated within other sections of the Water Resources Engineering Branch. Brief technical presentations to the interagency team environment, management and higher authority as requested. Participate in meetings with local project sponsor, stakeholder community and interagency representatives. Analyze hydrologic data; develop, modify and enhance computer codes and develop scripting language programs to communicate hydrological model results.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Business travel requirement is 15% of the time.

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: For Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes : (1) Experience performing hydrologic analysis and numerical modeling that focuses on the evaluation and implementation of surface and ground water numerical models; (2) Experience analyzing hydrologic data; develop, modify and enhance computer codes and develop scripting language programs to communicate hydrological model results; (3)Experience utilizing programing languages such as Windows and LINUX operating systems and others to perform numerical model simulations. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11 or above).

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 RL-W2SR02 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-JACKSONVILLE DO NOT MAIL Jacksonville, FL 32202 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk