CIVIL ENGINEER.

Responsibilities

• Prepares preliminary designs for planning and budgetary purposes and contract documents including plans and specifications.
• Reviews civil design features of proposed works, i.e., plans, specifications and design analyses for Military, Civil Works, and IIS projects.
• Utilizes state-of-the-art computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) technology and civil design software packages.
• Verifies the adequacy of technical engineering features of design and construction documents including feasibility reports, design documentation reports, plans, specifications, drawings, construction modifications.
• Participates in meetings with representatives of using services, military installation representatives, Division, HQUSACE, District, Architect-Engineering firms, non-federal project sponsors, and other interested parties.
• Makes field inspections of work under construction as well as completed or currently existing facilities and provides expert assistance to Resident Offices regarding problems encountered during construction.
• Prepares complete Scopes of Work establishing the design product required and Government estimate for Architect-Engineer design work.
• Coordinates quality assurance of Architect-Engineer prepared products and independent technical reviews.
• Provides input to scope of tasks, schedules, cost estimates, quality control measures.
• Monitors and coordinates the engineering efforts to assure the accuracy and completeness of the design, compliance with criteria requirements and adherence to project objectives and schedules.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a valid state driver's license.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Qualifications

Basic Requirement for Civil Engineer: Bachelor's degree (or higher) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must:

• Lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); OR
• 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)
  • (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics

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:

• 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, applicants who achieved registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration.
• 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.
• Specified academic courses — Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences that included the courses specified in the basic requirement above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
• 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).

Selective Placement Factor: This position requires a current Professional Engineering License issued by any State in the United States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. (You must upload a copy of your current PE license within your application package.)

Specialized Experience (GS-12 level): One year of specialized experience which includes performing all of the following:

• Project and/or technical leadership role on a project during execution of design.
• Civil engineering site design work on a project during execution of design plans and specifications.
• Reviewing technical design, constructability and biddability of civil engineering site design projects.
• Facilitating project team decision making and consensus.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12). For the GS-12 level, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone — no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

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.

Compensation & Incentives

• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• The following incentives may be authorized: Student Loan Repayment, Advanced In-hire, Recruitment Incentive, Relocation Incentive, Advanced Leave Accrual.

Additional Information

• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• This position requires a 1-year probationary period during which the agency