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Reclamation is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on his/her expertise as an entry level Civil Engineer. You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing water demands while protecting the environment.
Major Duties
Would you enjoy designing and directing the designs of major water resource systems? Responsibilities include designs, layouts, and analyses of concrete dams, outlet works, tunnels, spillways, roads, bridges, fish facilities, and other flow control structures for Reclamation facilities.
- Performing detailed structural design and analysis of heavy civil engineering works including structures constructed of steel, reinforced concrete, roller-compacted concrete, and masonry.
- Completing analyses and designs for heavy civil works including concrete dams, spillways, outlet works, fish facilities, diversion structures, bridges, powerplants, pumping plants, visitor centers, and other buildings using industry-recognized engineering software applications.
- Conducts oral presentations at coordination meetings and design briefings.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must first meet the Basic Education Qualification Requirements listed below: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.
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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 underlyingengineering, 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 otherwritten test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in thevarious States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. 3. Specified academic courses--Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences andthat included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of anengineering program as described in paragraph A. 4. Related curriculum--Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree inan appropriatescientific 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 REQUIREMENT: In addition to meeting the Basic Education Qualification Requirements, applicants must have additional specialized experience as defined below:
GS-07: 1 year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-05 level in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience may include assisting experienced engineers with a wide variety of structural and hydraulic analyses of heavy civil structures including dams, spillways and outlet works, canals, pipelines, bridges, fish facilities, buildings and other structures. Additionally, engaging in a wide variety of hydraulic and structural analyses, evaluations, designs, and quantity preparation for features such as concrete dams, spillways and outlet works, powerplants, pumping plants, water and wastewater treatment facilities, and other heavy civil structures.
GS-09: 1 year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-07 level in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience include preparation of layouts, analyses, designs, and construction documents for the construction of heavy civil structures including canals, pipelines, bridges, fish facilities, buildings, concrete dams, spillways and outlet works, powerplants, pumping plants, water and wastewater treatment facilities, and other structures. Applicable engineering experience includes work related to hydraulic analytical methods to analyze open channel and pressure flow water conveyance systems; performing structural analyses of reinforced concrete, steel and masonry structures utilizing appropriate building codes; evaluation of soil-structure interactions; and, hydraulic computations using principles of fluid dynamics.
SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION FOR EXPERIENCE: Applicants may also qualify on the basis of education as follows:
GS-05:4years of undergraduate education leading to a bachelor's degree (meetingthe Basic Education Requirements).
GS-07:1 year of graduate-level educationorsuperior academic achievement.
GS-09:2 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degreeormaster's or equivalent graduate degree.
Superior Academic Achievement: The superior academic achievement provision is to be used to determine eligibility for applicable GS-07 level positions of persons who have completed (or expect to complete within 9 months) all the requirements for bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a qualifying grade point average (GPA), class standing, or honors society. For more information, please visit: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-policies/#url=General-Policies. Experience
Pay Range
$50,193.00 - $89,736.00