About the Location: Sacramento a progressive city with great pride in its ethnic and cultural diversity and emphasis on quality in the provision of governmental services. Sacramentoans enjoy professional ballet, theater, outstanding museums, one of the best small zoos in the country, and the NBA's Sacramento Kings. Home to the world's second largest urban forest (behind Paris), Sacramento sits just two hours between both San Francisco and Lake Tahoe, at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Duties

Serves as District Value Program Analyst, serving as the District Value Officer (DVO), and advises, manages and directs on all matters on the District’s Value Program. Ensures compliance with Value Engineering statutory and regulatory requirements, policies and procedures. Actively maintains a viable Value Program by reviewing and evaluating results of the program, measuring progress toward assigned goals, investigating any problem areas, and providing feedback to District and Regional Leadership. Actively participates in the Value Community of Practice (VCoP). Ensures proper documentation is maintained for quality assurance, audit, internal controls purposes, and upward reporting of District performance measurements. Adapts precedents to unusual conditions and projects. Provides training, mentoring, guidance, and support on Value Program policy and guidance to District staff. Severe as the local SME on Value Management/Value Engineering application.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Required to obtain the Associate in Value Management (AVM) qualification within two years.
• Must obtain and maintain a delegated legal authority (warrant) per USACE Value Program policy and guidance.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the 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. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes performing as a value engineering officer, exercises responsibility for guidance, direction, execution, and ongoing evaluation of the value engineering programs; using experience to evaluate complex and diverse engineering activities through application of value engineering techniques that enhance project function and reduce life-cycle project costs; performing special assessments; and leading teams of engineers, architects, and others in the performance of value engineering studies to develop cost models. Provides training, mentoring, guidance, and support on Value Program policy and guidance to District staff. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).

Education

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you MUST meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Contacts

• Address RI-W2ST02 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-SACRAMENTO DO NOT MAIL Sacramento, CA 95814 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk