Civil Engineer - Direct Hire Authority

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Zion National Park & Rocky Mountain National Park, Department of the Interior

Job Summary

These are Permanent Career/Career-Conditional full-time positions.

Major Duties

Zion NP $76,721 - $99,741
Rocky Mountain NP $84,118 - $109,358

The Civil Engineer serves in the Facilities Management Division and is responsible for initiating, establishing, guiding, and controlling one or more park design/construction projects from inception through completion. Duties include writing scopes of work; developing Government cost estimates; assisting in the negotiation of task orders and construction contracts; managing and overseeing contracted efforts; managing construction efforts provided by numerous external contractors performing professional services on park facilities projects, some of which may be complex, multi-phased projects. Other duties include serving as the primary or alternate Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) on assigned projects and serving as project team leader working in collaboration with the Contracting Officer, Park Staff, other team members, Architectural/Engineering (A/E) firms, and construction contractors all responsible for successful project completion.

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement, unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect either full-time or 40 hours per week. If a part-time work schedule is reflected, the hours must be annotated to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. To qualify for this position at the GS-12 grade level, you must possess at least one of the following minimum qualifications AND the specialized experience (described below) by close of the announcement: BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENT: Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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 - 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. - OR - 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, and Puerto Rico. - OR - 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 the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. - OR - 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 bachelor's 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.) NOTE: Since this position has a mandatory education requirement; you must submit all copies of your transcripts of college work completed (unofficial copy is acceptable). - AND - EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: developing civil engineering project construction drawings, technical specifications, and cost estimates and applying professional engineering principles, concepts, practices, procedures of project development AND at least 1 of the following: 1.) overseeing contractors or other project team members; 2.) providing operational leadership principles; 3.) implementing risk management regarding work safety. You must include hours per week worked. Volunteer Experience: 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. You must include months, years and hours per week worked to receive credit for your work and/or volunteer experience. One year of specialized experience is equivalent to 12 months at 40 hours per week. Part-time hours are prorated. You will not receive any credit for experience that does not indicate exact hours per week or is listed as "varies".

Pay Range

$76,721.00 - $109,358.00

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End Date: 

Wednesday, April 22, 2020