Civil Engineer

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Department of the Army

Job Summary

The district office is located in downtown Omaha and is just blocks from the Missouri River and minutes from the city's wide array of parks, museums, historic sites, restaurants, recreation and entertainment venues such as Boys Town, the world-class Henry Doorly Zoo, and the College World Series. Great schools, affordable housing, recreational space, and diverse activities, contribute to some of the highest standards of living in the nation.

Major Duties

  • Provides staff level technical direction over the maintenance, repair, modification and construction activities at the six main stem Missouri River multiple purpose dam and reservoir projects.
  • Provides staff level technical direction over the maintenance, repair, modification and construction activities at the 21 flood control and recreation dam and reservoir projects within the Omaha District boundaries.
  • Manages the implementation of the DAM SAFETY Program.
  • Responsible for conducting an annual dam safety structures inspection of each assigned project.
  • Provides engineering assistance and direction to the field offices on the operation, preventive maintenance, repair and modification of structures.
  • Provides engineering assistance and direction to the field offices by serving as Project Manager identifying and recommending approval of these major maintenance repair and replacement work items.
  • Makes routine inspections of on-going construction and major maintenance or repair contracts and final inspection of constructed facilities to assure compliance with plans and specifications.

Qualifications

US Citizens 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 (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. 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: You must have one year of specialized engineering experience, equivalent to the GS-11 in Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as: 1) Experience with design, or operation & maintenance (O&M) of dams, or levees; and 2) Experience with dam safety instruments; 3) Experience working with Civil Engineering projects such as, water control structures and embankments, or buildings, grounds, roads, and utilities; and 3) Skilled with project or construction management such as coordinating the scope, schedule and budgets of design or construction of civil works projects. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

Building and ConstructionProblem SolvingProject Management

Pay Range

$76,972.00 - $100,068.00

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End Date: 

Monday, March 2, 2020