This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: Serves as Operations Project Manager for Operations and Maintenance of the assigned navigation projects is the district focal point to the O&M of the projects. Savannah District's navigation program is responsible for the O&M and management of two harbors located in Savannah and Brunswick.

Duties

Coordinates and integrates the development of project management plans to include schedules, budgets, work breakdown, and construction quality control plans for routine operations and maintenance actions. Updates PROMIS/PPDS scheduling information for assigned projects for District Civil Project Review Board presentations ensuring the accuracy of budget estimates and CEFMS cost data. Furnishes and updates schedules and resource data to functional elements for use in justifying resource needs. Disseminates current schedules, budgets and issues to functional elements and Project Management Division and reviews execution of projects related to responsible Operations and Maintenance projects when assigned to other district elements. Ensures adequate cross-functional input from planning, project management, engineering, construction, real estate, legal and other internal disciplines. Works with district elements and outside agencies, to develop needed support for execution of assigned navigation projects. Negotiates, recognizes the need for new or different courses of action; analyzes and evaluates facts; resolves problems of major significance. Integrates all facets of assigned projects, including technical or environmental problems, potential fiscal and physical delays, contract awards, outstanding claims and pertinent regulatory permit applications. Serves as District focal point and public/customer interface for assigned Operations and Maintenance projects. Bears responsibility for all matters relating to assigned Operations and Maintenance projects to include preparation of long-term dredge material disposal management plans. Provides technical direction for all matters related to Operations and Maintenance of navigation projects. Drafts scopes of work for acquisition of Operations and Maintenance contracts, including dredging. Monitors channel conditions and analyzes shoaling to continuously perform trade-off decisions for contract formulations. Works closely with the Dredging Team to formulate dredging orders based on changing channel conditions. Orders surveys of the harbor as necessary to perform such analysis. Makes periodic visits to project sites to observe conditions, progress of work, construction methods and to monitor the effectiveness of quality assurance/quality control systems. Recognizes and proactively resolves issues that threaten assigned project costs or schedules, fully coordinating with functional elements in the process. Anticipates internal scheduling, budget manpower or quality assurance problems and resolves them. Provides guidance to other OPMs under the direction of the Section Chief for assigned tasks and projects associated with Navigation Operations and Maintenance projects.

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 has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 25% of the time.

Qualifications

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: Developing and maintaining schedules, budgets, acquisition plans and specifications and quality control plans. Providing technical direction to junior employees. Ensuring coordination with other district elements, such as planning, engineering, construction, real estate and legal, outside agencies, stakeholders and sponsors, to execute assigned projects. Knowledge of deep draft navigation, dredging and topographic and hydrographic surveys. Identifying, monitoring and reporting on issues threatening project execution and develop and present solutions to those issues. Leading contract acquisition, execution and close-out efforts. 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-W2SR05 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-SAVANNAH DO NOT MAIL Savannah, GA 31402 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk