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This position is with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, Engineering and Construction Division (E&C). The St. Paul District E&C designs water resource projects to benefit the people of Minnesota, western Wisconsin, northeastern North Dakota, portions of South Dakota and Iowa, and the nation. These projects support inland navigation, flood risk management, and environmental restoration. E&C also provides emergency response to disasters.
Major Duties
- Team Leader of construction engineers, construction representatives, and contract construction inspector staff of up to 5 personnel. Coordinates layout and inspection, and reviews inspection reports to assure contract requirements are being met.
- Performs Contracting Officer Representative responsibilities. Initiates the Construction Quality Management (CQM) system on assigned contracts. Verifies that the contractor utilized the three-phase CQM system throughout the life of contracts.
- Verifies that Government quality assurance personnel effectively monitor contractor's quality control operations.
- Interprets plans and contract requirements pertaining to sequence of operations and general manner in which contractor work will be accomplished.
- Reviews and approves or disapproves submissions from contractors, including shop drawings, progress schedule plans, and correspondence.
- Assures that contractor maintains "As-Built" drawings to reflect actual construction. Exercises independent technical judgement to make recommendations to resolve conflicting plan details or requirements that become evident during construction.
- Settles conflicts which arise between Quality Assurance Representatives and contractor on the interpretation of plans and specifications or on construction practices and techniques.
- Responsible for inspection of materials used; excavation and backfill work; foundation work and all other structural, electrical, and mechanical work to assure compliance with contract requirements.
- Oversees preparation of data for contract payment estimates and submission of necessary reports.
- Prepares and/or coordinates the preparation of Independent Government Estimates for modifications in conformance with District policies and procedures. Negotiates modifications with contractors upon direction from Contracting Officer.
Qualifications
US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the Basic Education and Specialized 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. Basic Education 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 specialized experience requirements listed below: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience in onsite construction projects, contract administration, preparation of Independent Government Estimates and modification documentation, negotiation of modifications, review of shop drawings, contract plans and specifications, review of progress payments, quality assurance techniques, monitoring contractor safety, and/or study and resolution of field problems. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).
Pay Range
$76,721.00 - $107,234.00