About the Position: Responsible for the inspection of 48 locally-maintained flood risk management projects consisting of 1,600 miles of levees, 92 structures including 6 flood detention dams, pumping plants, flood walls, weirs, and wing dams. Responsible for the technical review of proposed encroachments and/or alteration requests to Federal projects to insure project integrity is not jeopardized.

Duties

You will: Plan and coordinate inspections of 48 locally-maintained flood risk management projects throughout the District. Ensure projects are maintained in accordance with Corps criteria and sound engineering principles. Determine required repairs and prepare engineering inspection reports. Provide technical advice to local project sponsors to insure proper and timely repairs. Report project deficiencies and unsatisfactory maintenance to HQUSACE and the appropriate State office. Participate in final turnover inspections of completed flood risk management projects with the local sponsor and prepare necessary documents to transfer the project to sponsors for operation and maintenance. Provide local project sponsors with instructions outlining operation and maintenance requirements. Provide design support for a variety of flood risk management projects projects. Designs include specifications for roads, bridges, pipelines, small buildings, concrete walls, and drainage and erosion control structures. Review District planning reports, design memorandums and OandM manuals, environmental documents and specifications to insure proper attention is provided to operation and maintenance requirements of the project. Review and investigate applications and/or requests for alteration of flood risk management projects from the project sponsors. Perform engineering analysis to insure proposed alteration will not adversely impact the project. Insure proposal is in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and policies. Solicit comments from other functional areas to insure a complete and thorough review of proposals. Inspect approved projects during construction to insure conformance with plans and special conditions to insure the modification is not detrimental to the flood risk management 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 in one of the 50 U.S. states or possessions to operate vehicles.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens 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. Basic Requirement for Civil (0810) and Mechanical (0830) Engineering: 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 participation in engineering inspections of infrastructure projects for the purpose of evaluating the condition of the infrastructure using objective engineering criteria to determine operation and maintenance needs; AND assisting in the management of a project or program ensure the quality, scheduling, budgeting, and progress of work; AND leading or working with multi-disciplinary engineers. 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). 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: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

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