This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for 5USC 9905 for certain people of the workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: This position is located in Pittsburgh, PA with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District as Supervisory Civil Engineer, Regional Inland Navigation Design Production Center.

Duties

Develops a complex and comprehensive inland navigation design program with others that includes assessments, design, and engineering during construction oversight of support engineer services, for civil works inland navigation design projects. Serves as facilitator or liaison with Districts, Region, and INDC in coordinating project team initiatives, resources, workload plans, and standards in consensus activities. Assesses the strengths and weaknesses of capability, competencies, capacity and community of practice to provide leadership in exploring efficiencies, alternatives and determining improvements. Coordinates the preparation and obtains approval of plans for new construction, major maintenance and rehabilitation/renovation of inland navigation facilities to be accomplished by districts, region, or by A-E contract forces. Provides a wide range of technical input and oversight concerning navigation design aspects of Districts civil works inland navigation design and engineering during construction programs. Coordinates and recommends resources for projects along with leadership in developing, implementing, evaluating, and improving processes and procedures to monitor the effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity. Develops and maintains close working relationship with Districts and the Inland Navigation Design Center. Assures an accurate interchange of design information and development of standards, procedures and guidelines between all. Plans work to be accomplished, sets and adjusts priorities, develops workload plans, coordinating availability of resources, prepares schedules for work completion and provides technical expertise. Performs a full range of supervisory activities including evaluating performance, hiring actions, recruitment, recruitment outreach, personnel actions, mentoring, and training.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Position requires Professional Engineering (PE) license.
• This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 15% of the time
• Appointment to this position is subject to a one-year probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in 5 CFR Part 315
• This position is supervisory as defined by the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) General Schedule Supervisory Guide (GSSG). A one-year probation to assess your ability to perform supervisory duties is required unless previously completed.
• This position requires pre-employment financial disclosure and annually thereafter in accordance with DoD Directive 5500-7-R.

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 Education Requirement for Engineers: 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 which includes serving as lead designer of complex civil works inland navigation related engineering designs; leading civil engineering design efforts and providing engineering construction support for technical challenges on complex civil works projects such as mega projects; coordinating and incorporating design requirements for civil works inland navigation design related projects between districts, centers, operators, and stakeholders; supervises or leads subordinates in a team setting developing resources, workload plans, evaluating performance, mentoring, training, or management of scope, schedule, quality and budget. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (equivalent to GS-12 or above). 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.

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-W2SM04 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-PITTSBURGH DO NOT MAIL Pittsburgh, PA 15222 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk