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: You will serve as Engineering Technical Lead for the development and progress of Ecosystem Restoration, Flood Damage Reduction, and other projects in Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Duties

Coordinate and incorporate design and plans of other allied engineering portions of work to accomplish the overall design and final documents, maintains liaison with local cooperation agencies on design and final documents. Maintain fluency in design software packages, technologies used for the collection of survey data, development of design models, and creation of plans and specifications. Understand the technology and methodology for collecting hydrographic and topographic survey data. Orders and contributes to the development of project survey scopes. Work products include technical reports, construction plans and specifications, facility operations and maintenance manuals, survey, and geospatial solutions. Project plan development are the preparation of quantity estimates and reports on feasibility of alternatives considered for comprehensive and complex civil works, and the preparation of the project design specifications. Manage budget, scope, and schedule for all assigned projects.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position requires Temporary Duty Travel (TDY) of at least 10% of the duty time.
• For GS-12: Professional Engineering Registration/License. If licensed, a copy of your license should be submitted with your application.
• May be selected at any grade level with non-competitive promotion potential to target grade. Non-competitive promotion potential to the target grade based on time-in-grade requirements and demonstrated ability to perform the higher graded duties.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: U.S. Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education/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. In addition to meeting the basic requirement in the education section to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: To qualify at the GS-11 grade level, you must have: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience in the preparation of designs, contract plans, technical specifications, quality control plans, design documentation reports, and quality estimates to support but are not limited to, earthen dams and levees, channels, storm water retention and treatment facilities, hydraulic control structures (pumping stations, spillways, culverts), and mitigation elements to compensate for impacts to existing infrastructure, including roadways and utilities; assisting with technical reports, construction plans and specifications, facility operations and maintenance manuals, survey, and geospatial solutions. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09) OR Degree: Successfully completed a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the work of the position. (Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.) OR Have the specialized experience as described above, but less than one year; and I have at least two years of graduate education as described above, but less than the required three years. Have computed the percentage of the requirements that meet, and the total is at least 100% (To compute the percentage, divide your total months of qualifying experience by 12. Then, divide your semester hours of graduate education beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal at least 100 percent to qualify.). (Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.) For GS-12: Professional Engineering Registration/License. If licensed, a copy of your license should be submitted with your application. To qualify at the GS-12 grade level, you must have: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes leading a multidisciplinary Project Delivery Team and analyzing and evaluating team input on issues, conditions, and challenges; preparing preparation of designs, contract plans, technical specifications, quality control plans, design documentation reports, and quality estimates to support but are not limited to, earthen dams and levees, channels, storm water retention and treatment facilities, hydraulic control structures (pumping stations, spillways, culverts), and mitigation elements to compensate for impacts to existing infrastructure, including roadways and utilities; reviewing technical reports, construction plans and specifications, facility operations and maintenance manuals, survey, and geospatial solutions; planning and project plan development in preparation of quantity estimates and reports for comprehensive and complex civil works, and the preparation of the project design specifications. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11) Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this GS-12, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Education

Basic Education Requirement - Civil Engineer (0810): (Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.)
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
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:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. (Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts)

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