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You will function as a Civil Engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, Engineering Construction Division, located in Lancaster, TN.
Major Duties
- Serves as the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) in accordance with established policies, procedures and regulations.
- Serves as a Construction Project Engineer, responsible for accomplishing assigned engineering duties and responsibilities on several simultaneous projects.
- Responsible for providing technical supervision and administrative field control over construction performed by contractors and subcontractors.
- Interprets and enforces contract requirements and ensures that appropriate and effective quality assurance activities are being employed.
- Determines acceptability of proposed substitutes in material and/or methods.
- Makes on-site decisions regarding compliance with contract provisions, environmental harmony, and exercises engineering judgment to effect a solution between conflicting plan details or requirements which become evident as construction progresses.
- Conducts or participates in negotiations to reach a fair and reasonable settlement of contract time extensions and/or cost increase/decrease.
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. Basic Education Requirement:
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: 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. 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 in A 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. In addition to the basic education requirement above, you must also have the specialized experience below: To qualify at the GS-11 grade level, you must have: A. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes assisting with the preparation and processing of contact pay estimates; assisting with the preparation of government estimates and construction progress reports; reviewing non-complex contractor submittals (such as working schedules and materials test results); enforcing quality control and quality assurance requirements; and assisting in the preparation and negotiating of contract modifications initiated in the field. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09); OR
B. Education: 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; OR
C. Combination of Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed graduate level education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for this position. Determine your total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determine your education as a percentage of the education required for the grade the grade level; then add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal 100 percent to qualify for this position. (To compute the percentage, divide you total months of qualifying experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of graduate education by 18. Add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal at least 100 percent to qualify). To qualify at the GS-12 grade level, you must have: A. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes preparing and processing of contact pay estimates; preparing government estimates and construction progress reports; reviewing contractor submittals (such as working schedules and materials test results); enforcing quality control and quality assurance requirements; and preparing and negotiating of contract modifications initiated in the field. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).
B. Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this grade level, 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:
Building and ConstructionContract Performance ManagementContracting/ProcurementOral CommunicationQuality AssuranceSafety Hazard Analysis
Pay Range
$74,596.00 - $96,978.00