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Job opening: Civil Engineer

Salary: $101 732 - 124 061 per year
Relocation: YES
City: Savannah
Published at: Aug 19 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Position: Serve as a Senior Cost Engineer and Work Group Leader performing the more complex estimates for civil works, military, and other agencies. Prepares estimates for in-house designs and reviews estimates prepared by A-E firms and others. Typical civil works projects include storm and erosion protection systems for rivers, harbors, shores, and beaches; dredging projects; dam O&M; soils structures such as slopes, embankments and levees, dredge material containment areas; channels.

Duties

Serve as a Senior Cost Engineer and Work Group Leader performing the more complex estimates for civil works, military, and Work for Others (INS, Coast Guard, Navy, DOE, VA. Prepare the most complex estimates or portions of estimates and reviews A-E prepared estimates of the most complex nature. Coordinate with a variety of technical specialists to exchange information, monitor work progress and provide advice. Contact District managers and engineers, A-E firms and contractors to coordinate work efforts, resolve technical problems that impact designs and costs. Facilitates workshops, develop risks registers, and run models to complete Cost, Schedule, Risk Analysis utilizing USACE standards templates.

Requirements

  • Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
  • Requires a valid State issued drivers' license.
  • This position requires certification through Tri-Service Automated Cost Engineering System (TRACES) within 2 years of employment.

Qualifications

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. 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. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service which includes: 1) Serve as a Senior Cost Engineer and Work Group Leader performing the more complex estimates for civil works, military, and Work for Others (INS, Coast Guard, Navy, DOE, VA 2) Prepare the most complex estimates or portions of estimates and reviews A-E prepared estimates of the most complex nature.3) Serve as the technical facilitator in Civil Works and Milcon teams assigned to the Design Branch, including virtual teaming with members to accomplish any specific project mission. 4) Contact District managers and engineers, A-E firms and contractors to coordinate work efforts, resolve technical problems that impact designs and costs.. Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience 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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/

Contacts

  • Address RL-W07405 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-SAVANNAH DO NOT MAIL Savannah, GA 31402 US
  • Name: Army Applicant Help Desk

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