Suepervisory Civil Engineer (Structural).

Responsibilities

• Serve as Chief of the Structural Section, providing technical leadership and oversight for structural and foundation engineering on military and civil works projects, including review of designs.
• Supervise and manage structural engineering staff, including assigning work, establishing priorities, evaluating performance, balancing workload and resources, and supporting employee development, training, and career progression.
• Lead QA and technical reviews to ensure structural and foundation designs, calculations, and documents comply with UFC, codes, and project requirements, verifying accuracy, interdisciplinary coordination, and constructability.
• Act as the District’s senior structural engineering advisor, representing the District on complex or significant structural engineering matters.
• Serve as an authoritative consultant on structural systems, foundations, existing conditions, design criteria, and complex or controversial technical issues.
• Participate in project planning and execution, contributing to development of project scope, design approach, technical requirements, schedules, budgets, level of effort, and resolution of engineering challenges.
• Engage with project delivery teams, customers, external partners, and A-E firms, participating in technical discussions and negotiations, resolving design and coordination issues on appropriate structural engineering solutions.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Incumbent is required to possess and maintain State registration as a Professional Engineer (PE).
• Incumbent may be subject to a one-year probation to assess ability to perform supervisory duties, unless previously completed.

Qualifications

Who May Apply

• 30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans
• Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)
• Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan
• Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473
• Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer
• People with Disabilities, Schedule A
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible
• Reinstatement

Basic Requirement for Supervisory Civil Engineer (Structural)

Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must:

• 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
• 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:
  • statics, dynamics
  • strength of materials (stress-strain relationships)
  • fluid mechanics, hydraulics
  • thermodynamics
  • electrical fields and circuits
  • nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties)
  • any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics

OR 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 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.
• 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 and that included the courses specified 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.

Specialized Experience

One year of specialized experience which includes at least 3 of the 4 listed below (typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service, GS-12):

• Leading structural engineering and foundation design for complex military, civil, or commercial projects — managing scope, schedule, quality, and compliance with key standards (UFC, IBC, ASCE, ACI, AISC).
• Developing structural designs and specifications using industry-standard modeling and engineering tools.
• Analyzing structural calculations, engineering studies, analyses, specifications, and other design documents necessary to support project delivery.
• Resolving complex military or civil structural engineering issues with multi-disciplinary stakeholders.

Time in Grade Requirement