About the Position: Serves as a specialist in coastal engineering. Major duties involve continuing evaluation of coastal engineering features of plans and reports on survey investigations, basin studies, design memoranda, and plans and specifications for projects during pre-construction and construction phases.

Duties

Analyze operational effectiveness of channels, boat basins, docks, levees, beak waters and other navigation facilities. Conduct inspections to evaluate the conditions of facilities and structures. Provides evaluation of coastal engineering features of plans and reports on survey investigations, basin studies, design memoranda, and plans and specifications for projects during pre-construction and construction phases. Analyzes coastal project features and possible alternates to determine most economical, suitable, and technically sound design. Visit project under contract to advise on engineering problem and to assure that intent of plans and specification are being followed.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Required to submit a Financial Disclosure Statement, OGE-450, (5CFR Part 2634, Subpart I USOGE, 6/08).

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US 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. Basic Requirement: Civil Engineering Series 0810 (opm.gov) In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: GS-11: Specialized experience is defined as experience with performing coastal investigations and phases of design, with particular emphasis on coastal environments of the Great Lakes region; analysis, interpretation and evaluation of coastal data to resolve problems and to establish the basis for coastal design; performing coastal engineering duties which involve continuing evaluation of coastal engineering features of plans and reports on survey investigations, basin studies, design memoranda, and plans and specifications for projects during pre-construction and construction phases. Performing site evaluation and investigation to ensure construction was conducted in accordance with established contract specifications; monitoring civil engineering projects and resources; preparing contract modifications, cost estimates, and/or scopes of work for projects. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09). GS-09: Specialized experience is defined as knowledge of mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences applicable to general engineering and the demonstrated ability to review technical aspects of applications, designs, or proposed plans for compliance with laws, regulations, standards, specifications, or other requirements, operations and maintenance of coastal and navigation structures, canals and lock operations, or other similar work. Performing field inspection to ensure construction project was conducted in accordance with established contract specifications; gathering data used to monitor the progress of contractors in achieving contract requirements and project milestones such as performing basic surveys and investigations to establish baseline data used to initiate a requirement review. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07). GS-07: Specialized experience is defined as knowledge of mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences applicable to general engineering and the demonstrated ability to review technical aspects of applications, designs, or proposed plans for compliance with laws, regulations, standards, specifications, or other similar work related to the vacancy to be filled. Providing support to senior engineering in the development, planning, and design of civil engineering construction projects; Conducting field work to gather survey data in the development of improvement plans; Performing a variety of research to assist in the development of contract plans, specifications, and estimates. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second grade/level position in the federal service (GS-05). You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Civil EngineeringOral CommunicationProblem SolvingTechnical Competence

Education

Basic Requirement: 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.

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

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