Job opening: CIVIL ENGINEER (HYDRAULICS)
Salary: $116 618 - 138 947 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Dec 18 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service
About the Position: Serve as a senior hydraulic engineer and technical expert responsible for conducting hydraulic and hydrologic studies and data collection/processing throughout the Great Lakes and its outflow channels along with inland rivers and lakes throughout the Great Lakes basin.
Duties
Serves as a senior hydraulic engineer and technical expert responsible for conducting hydraulic and hydrologic studies throughout the Great Lakes basin.
Applies extensive and diversified professional knowledge of hydraulic engineering theory, principles, and practices related to the study, layout, and design of riverine systems.
Keep abreast of the latest science and technologies concerning hydrologic, hydraulic, and coastal projects and making recommendations as needed.
Acts as lead engineer for hydrologic, hydraulic and/or coastal programs; prepares time and cost estimates for new work, plans data collection efforts, and identifies proper procedures for modeling and processing of data.
Set goals and objectives to complete assignments in a timely manner, demonstrating initiative to start and complete tasks.
Provide technical assistance related to hydrologic and hydraulic engineering to international boards, committees and sub-committees.
Utilize hydrologic and hydraulic modeling software (HEC suite of models, AdH, etc) to analyze river systems.
Prepare technical reports, appendices, memoranda, and presentations on projects.
Attends meetings for PDT coordination to explain study findings, present factual information, maintain continuity and progress of projects, and answer questions concerning studies.
Trains and mentors junior staff; delegates work assignments to lower graded staff members, tracks work progress, and provides advice and assistance on various work aspects.
Performs technical reviews of project analyses and documents developed in-house, by Architectural-Engineering (A-E) firms, by other agencies, or by other Corps Districts.
Work schedule is 40 hours per week with possibility of overtime, schedule is subject to change during travel status.
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
Qualifications
In order to qualify, you must meet the basic education and specialized 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 Requirement for Civil Engineer (Hydraulics)
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.
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 acting as a hydraulic engineer responsible for conducting hydraulic and hydrologic studies and data collection/processing throughout the Great Lakes and its outflow channels, along with inland rivers and lakes throughout the Great Lakes basin. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this grade level, 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:
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html
Contacts
- Address RE-W2SM07 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-DETROIT
DO NOT MAIL
Detroit, MI 48231
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
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