Job Summary

The position is assigned to the Flood Plain Management Services Section/ Planning / Policy Branch in the Water Resources Division. The section is responsible for managing/executing the Flood Plain Management Services Program, under the authority provided by Section 206 of the 1960 Flood Control Act (PL 86-645) as amended, and the Virginia Silver Jackets Team for the Norfolk District in support of reducing flood risk /improving awareness within the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Major Duties

Qualifications

US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or 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. This position is being filled under the direct hiring authority. Management may select at any of the grade levels, if selected the incumbent will have non-competitive promotion to the target grade without competition once performance requirements are met. Basic Requirement for Civil Engineer: 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: Specialize experience GS-9: I have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service which includes work that involves experience performing hydrologic and hydraulic analyses and experience in system such as modeling and perform analysis with a Geographic Information System (GIS) instrument. Specialize experience GS-11: I have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service which includes work that involves experience performing hydrologic and hydraulic analyses and modeling with multiple system with water works for bridges, culverts, dams, levees; and experience performing determination of sub-basins and watershed parameters and/or hypothetical rainfall. Specialize experience GS-12: I have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service which includes experience performing hydraulic analysis utilizing programs such as Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC) HEC-RAS (River Analysis System) for selection of cross sections and selection of Manning's roughness values; and performing hydrologic analysis utilizing programs such as Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC) HEC-RAS (River Analysis System) for determination of sub-basins and watershed parameters; AND developing the scope of work necessary to accomplish the needs of the project or study for assigned flood plain management related investigations. 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. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

Civil EngineeringHydraulic EngineeringPlanning and EvaluatingTechnical Competence

Pay Range

$51,546.00 - $97,197.00

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