About the Position: About the Position: Incumbent prepares detailed designs for various structures to be constructed under the Districts civil works operations and maintenance responsibility, as well as smaller construction general new work projects. Serves as representative of the Civil Structural Design Section on projects, studies, and contracts assigned.

Duties

Prepares detailed designs for various structures to be constructed under the Districts civil works operations and maintenance responsibility. Prepares designs, including layouts, of various types of structures and projects under consideration in the preliminary or survey report stage of development. Performs planning pertaining to methods, schedules and costs to accomplish assignments, updating periodically as necessary, to provide input to scheduling of work and monitoring progress. Coordinates his work and activities with planning, construction, other design personnel and staff elements to assure effective contribution to the team effort. Prepares technical provisions of specifications for projects. Reviews architect-engineer plans and design computations as to adequacy, suitability, and engineering soundness.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.

Qualifications

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certaon Personnel of Department of Defense 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/or 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. GS-11: Specialized Experience: In addition to the basic education requirement your resume must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service which includes: Reviewing and evaluating design of civil/military project to ensure compliance with project guidelines and requirements; Interpreting plans and specifications to ensure conformance to field construction and various guidelines; and planning, coordinating, and developing technical documents related to operation, inspection, and maintenance of District navigation; identifying civil engineering problems and recommending corrective action. GS-09: Specialized Experience: In addition to the basic education requirement your resume must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service which includes: Planning, coordinating, and developing technical documents related to the operations, inspection, and maintenance of District navigation, flood risk management (FRM) and the Natural Resources Management (NRM) project; Monitoring, analyzing, and improving program planning and execution. GS-07: Specialized Experience: In addition to the basic education requirement your resume must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service which includes: Assisting project managers with planning, coordinating, and developing technical documents related to the operations, inspection, and maintenance of District navigation, flood risk management (FRM) and the Natural Resources Management (NRM) projects.

Education

Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

A. Successful completion of a professional engineering degree: 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.

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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)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.)


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 RE-W2SM05 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-BUFFALO DO NOT MAIL Buffalo, NY 14207 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk