Civil Engineer, GS-0810-12

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Department of Homeland Security

Job Summary

This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Coast Guard Recruit Training Center, Facilities Engineering Division, Engineering Branch, Cape May, NJ.

Major Duties

You will perform Civil/Structural Engineering services for the direction, control, and appraisal of the planning, design, development, construction, alteration, cost estimates, and inspection of building, grounds, and facilities.

Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include:

- Performing administrative and technical project management relating to a wide variety of facilities of substantial complexity.
- Leading a team in designing and developing construction drawings and specifications for civil and or structural engineering systems, such as sewer mains, storms and sanitary sewer lines, sanitary or lift stations, parking lot and road repaving, construction or rehabilitation of existing buildings, pier structures, seawalls/bulkheads/bank stabilization, roofing systems, and other similar projects.
- Evaluating projects to determine the most appropriate, energy efficient, and economical systems to serve the facility.
- Performing design review of construction drawings and specifications for civil and/or structural engineering systems.
- Conducting studies and providing engineering analyses and evaluation of potential projects.
- Serving as the Engineer in Charge (EIC), identifying areas of concern pertaining to specific in-house projects, and preparing project scopes and cost estimates for fee purposes.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements: A. 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 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)1, 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)2 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.

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.

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.) Additional requirements for GS-11: At least 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level is required.Examples of specialized experienceinclude: In a developmental capacity providing technical authority and project management to facilities engineering projects;conducting studies and developing plans, specifications, and construction requirements such as schedules, costs, labor, and materials for facilities projects;advising on, overseeing, and/or directing contracted work to ensure its quality and compliance with plans, designs, and specifications; anticipating, evaluating, and resolving problems and issues affecting the quality, scheduling, budgeting, or progress of work performed in completing projects; and providingtechnical guidance to ensure completion of engineeringand/or design projects.

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3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree

GS-12: At least 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level is required.Examples of specialized experienceinclude: providing technical authority and project management to facilities engineering projects;conducting studies and developing plans, specifications, and construction requirements such as schedules, costs, labor, and materials for facilities projects;advising on, overseeing, and/or directing contracted work to ensure its quality and compliance with plans, designs, and specifications; anticipating, evaluating, and resolving problems and issues affecting the quality, scheduling, budgeting, or progress of work performed in completing projects; and providingtechnical guidance to ensure completion of engineeringand/or design projects. National Service Experience (i.e., 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.The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Pay Range

$69,579.00 - $108,421.00

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End Date: 

Friday, April 3, 2020