This position is located in Natchez Trace Parkway, in the Facilities Division. Open to the first 50 applicants or until 09/25/2024 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.

Duties

MAJOR DUTIES: This permanent position is located at the Natchez Trace Parkway Headquarters in Tupelo, MS. Major duties include, but are not limited to engineering analysis, design, documentation and presentation, investigations/inspections, reviewing/mentoring, project management, grant administration, compliance, database operation, and leading technical working groups. Engineer Analysis: The Civil Engineer performs work in engineering analyses to include performing and coordinating technical planning activities; data collection (including validation and management); modeling and data analyses; analyses of site location and/or conditions; risk estimation and analyses; or analyses of instrumentation data. Evaluates engineering aspects of state and federal regulatory and permitting programs, conducting bond adequacy reviews, oversight reviews, and reviews on federal lands and in states with resource extraction programs under direct federal jurisdiction. Makes engineering recommendations and/or decisions based on engineering analysis. Specialty area analyses can include: Construction Management Geotechnical Highway Hydraulics Hydrologic Structural Design Documentation and Presentation Investigations, Assessments, and/or Inspections Reviewing and Mentoring Project Management: Develops, monitors, and manages project plans that outline the scope, schedule, and budget of assigned projects. This includes: coordinating and communicating with other groups and offices throughout the organization such as program and project managers, engineering, finance, maintenance, permit compliance, and acquisition; managing changes to the project plans with external stakeholders, tribes, and regulatory authorities; identifying and addressing issues prior to adverse impacts to the schedule and budget; and participating on and/or leading technical teams. Contracting Officer's Representative (COR)/Grants Officer's Technical Representative (GOTR)/Awarding Official Technical Representative (AOTR): Works with Contracting Officer/Grants Officer/Awarding Official to implement and administer a variety of assigned contracts, including construction contracts, service or supply contracts, P.L. 93-638 Indian Self Determination and Education Assistance Act as amended contracts/agreements, interagency agreements, and financial assistance agreements. Initiates timely actions and technically monitors the contract/agreement to ensure that they are carried out to completion as outlined in the contract/agreement. Researches the background on problems, identifies and devises courses of action in coordination with the Contracting Officer, Grants Officer, or Awarding Official as appropriate, and prepares recommendations for decision by management. Compliance: Provides engineering support in connection with regulatory program oversight, policy and rulemaking efforts, review of regulatory compliance issues, and resolution of engineering related issues as they are encountered. This may include review of lands unsuitable for mining petitions. Database Operation: Develops, modifies, and utilizes relational databases to maintain engineering data for conducting operational and planning analyses. Oversees development and operation of engineering data collection systems directly and/or in coordination with other government agencies and non-federal sources. Ensures necessary data is collected, transmitted, downloaded, decoded, and received for its intended purpose. Technical Working Groups: Participates on and/or leads technical work groups or teams. May provide technical organizational representation and collaboration on teams external to the organization, including external stakeholders and partners.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-09/25/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount qualified specialized experience. To qualify for this position at the GS-12 grade level, you must possess of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: BASIC REQUIREMENT: Most possess this in addition to the additional experience below to qualify for the position. (A) A degree in Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must:(1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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. (MUST SUBMIT TRANSCRIPTS) AND IF SELECTED YOU WILL NEED TO SUBMIT YOUR OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS PRIOR TO EOD. -OR- Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and 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)1 , 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)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and 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 the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. 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 bachelor's 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.) (MUST SUBMIT TRANSCRIPTS) AND IF SELECTED YOU WILL NEED TO SUBMIT YOUR OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS PRIOR TO EOD. In addition to the above, applicants must also possess the following: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least next lower grade level (GS-11). Examples of specialized experience include: Professional engineering experience in developing designs, studies, cost estimate, specifications and modifications for engineering projects (bridges, roads, buildings, culverts, water and wastewater systems, and other public works systems); performing field work including site investigations, data gathering, and inspections issuing corrective action for observed deficiencies, conducting surveillance activities and administering construction contracts; formulating and tracking budgets; and coordinating projects or agreements with external groups such as Federal and state agencies or private organizations. You must include hours worked per week. Volunteer Experience: 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your 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.

Contacts

• Address Natchez Trace Parkway DO NOT SEND MAIL 2680 Natchez Trace Parkway Tupelo, MS 38804-9718 US
• Name: Jody Solis-Mitchell
• Phone: 662-260-8297
• Email: [email protected]