About the Location: Sacramento a progressive city with great pride in its ethnic and cultural diversity and emphasis on quality in the provision of governmental services. Sacramentoans enjoy professional ballet, theater, outstanding museums, one of the best small zoos in the country, and the NBA's Sacramento Kings. Home to the world's second largest urban forest (behind Paris), Sacramento sits just two hours between both San Francisco and Lake Tahoe, at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Duties

Serves as the Director, SPD Regional Dam Safety Production Center (DSPC), a component of the SPD Region, located in the Sacramento District. Develops and directs the DSPC to manage the regional execution of complex, non-routine, regional and inter- regional dam safety modifications, engineering assessments, and risk and reliability analyses. Plans, establishes, and administers the non-routine Dam Safety Program, including establishing annual program goals, prioritizing projects, and leading corporate processes for monitoring progress, evaluating quality, and program execution. Provides strategic vision, executive oversight, and overarching technical direction for the activities of the DSPC. Advises Districts within SPD in the solution of complex, nationally significant, precedent-setting, or otherwise special engineering problems involving dam safety engineering, portfolio management, systems analysis, and risk assessment techniques. Functions as the authoritative source of theoretical expertise and practical "know-how" throughout the USACE in the subject matter area of dam safety, engineering risk analysis, and public works infrastructure safety and security. Provides oversight of dam safety engineering studies, designs, plans, specifications, cost estimates, engineering risk and reliability techniques. Also provides oversight of technical and risk aspects of dam safety modification construction, and regional dam safety project portfolio management. Provides improved approaches to common problems and solutions to new problems associated with the most complex, inter-related, and unprecedented issues and threats associated with dams and other public works.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must submit upon entry and annually a Financial Disclosure Agreement (See Additional Information).

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 Applying on Time-Limited Assignments 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. Please refer to the General Schedule Qualification Standards Basic Requirements for Engineering Series for education requirements. (NOTE: Applicants MUST submit/upload a copy of the transcripts with the application package. For application purposes, unofficial transcripts are acceptable.) Please refer to the General Schedule Qualification Standards Basic Requirements for Geology Series for education requirements. (NOTE: Applicants MUST submit/upload a copy of the transcripts with the application package. For application purposes, unofficial transcripts are acceptable.) 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 demonstrating a full scope of engineering management and technical design for dam safety and civil works projects, including dam safety risk assessment, analysis and pre-construction design of dam modifications, and construction oversight for dam modification projects. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-14). 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: This position requires the possession of a current Professional Engineer (PE) license issued by any State in the United States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Administration and ManagementDam Design & ConstructionLeadershipPlanning and EvaluatingProject ManagementTechnical 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-14).

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 RI-W2ST02 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-SACRAMENTO DO NOT MAIL Sacramento, CA 95814 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk