SUPERVISORY CIVIL ENGINEER (HYDRAULICS).

About the role

Responsible for program management functions related to the Water Management mission in the Division. Programs include all policy and technical activities employed in river, reservoir, and lake regulation and Water Management policy interpretation and application. Water Management programs are of extreme importance to the regional and national well-being and require high-level conferences, consultation, and coordination to ensure the best possible control and use of the region's water resources. Program management requires the application of extensive knowledge of all aspects of the Water Management function to provide technical and policy assistance to district water managers in program execution and issue resolution. The complexity and technical detail of the Water Management program requires the incumbent to be technically competent and conversant in all program areas and have a good understanding of the Water Management business process at the Districts.

Requirements

Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation. This position requires Professional Engineer (PE) registration.

Qualifications

Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

• Current Department of Army Civilian Employees
• Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)
• Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce
• Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan
• Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act
• Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473
• Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer
• Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Interchange Agreement Eligible
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible
• Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible
• Tech Receiving Disability Retirement
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible
• Reinstatement
• Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998

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 and other organizations. 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.

Specialized Experience

One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service which includes:

• Providing guidance and recommendations on Water Management and Hydrology, Hydraulics and Coastal (HH&C) programs;
• Managing application of procedures for evaluation of status of water resources;
• Setting water management business objectives and standardizing business processes.

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-14).

Education

Basic Requirement for Engineer 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;
• 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.