Job opening: Civil Engineer
Salary: $103 409 - 134 435 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Oct 22 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Position: This position is located within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District. Engineering and Construction, Design Branch, Civil Design Section. You will serve as a Senior Lead Engineer for highly complex and comprehensive civil works related projects with an emphasis on Flood Risk Managment. You will lead multiple teams of interdisciplinary engineers and technicians. (see below)
Duties
Lead teams of interdisciplinary engineers and technicians engaged in the preparation of scopes of work, designs, plans, specifications, cost estimates for complex civil works projects.
Coordinate with project managers in developing input and monitoring project quality, schedules, cost and budgets.
Perform advanced work relating to difficult or critical designs and problems; and lead the efforts of a team carrying out broad project assignments with emphasis in civil design.
Determine requirements and negotiates for project support from District elements, other Districts, outside agencies and Architect-Engineer (A/E) firms.
Use experience and judgement in selecting optimum planning and design approaches from a technical, economic, and public need standpoint.
Provide independent technical reviews and quality control for products produced by the team and quality assurance for products produced by A/E's, and other Districts.
Represent the District when dealing with local, state, and municipal authorities and is primary point of contact on technical issues with customers.
Function as key person in the District's Lead Engineer Community of Practice (CoP).
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- IAW AR 690-950, State Registration as a Professional Engineer is a requirement of this position.
- Occasional travel may be required.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.
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 and your transcripts are required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Basic Requirement for Civil Engineer:
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
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.
In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes engineering and multi-discipline experience in the preparation of designs, plans, specifications, and cost estimates for large multi-discipline civil works type projects such as navigation locks and dams, flood control, shoreline restoration and environmental enhancements; lead, oversee and monitor civil works projects scope, quality, schedules and budgets; resolve problems, provide advice, develop procedures and perform advanced work related to difficult design efforts.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).
Please Note: This position requires the incumbent to possess and maintain a Professional Engineering (PE) License. In order to confirm that you meet these requirements, you MUST include a copy of your license with your application package. Failure to include a copy of your license may result in non-referral to the hiring manager.
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 RE-W2SM01 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-HUNTINGTON
DO NOT MAIL
Huntington, WV 25701
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
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