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This position is located with the CAP Production Center, Program and Project Management Division in San Francisco, CA or Sausalito, CA. Serves as senior Hydraulics Engineer performing advanced hydraulic and hydrologic engineering studies, including design, analyses, and review of hydraulic structures and conveyance facilities.
Major Duties
- Conducts hydrologic investigations and studies required for flood plain investigations and a variety of project investigations.
- Collects, reconstructs and analyzes data on past flood events by obtaining information from other Federal, State and local agencies.
- Develops frequency curves of flow for existing conditions based on analysis of available stream flow records.
- Prepares design storms, such as the standard project and probable maximum, based on designed criteria which incorporate the mixture of elements and computes the resulting flood hydrographs.
- Develops procedures for extrapolating hydrologic information required for special work requests where limited or no stream flow or precipitation records exist.
- Develops or ensures the development of the hydraulic design products for the project under the general guidelines of the project plan.
- Reviews directives, budget data, and project criteria and decides on appropriate course of action for accomplishing the work.
- Performs sediment yield studies, determining which of the many sediment yield methods are most applicable to the particular stream.
- Determines quantity and size distribution of the bedload and the resulting effect on bed roughness and dynamic bedforms.
- Performs the full range of duties associated with preparation of preliminary and final hydraulic design and applicable portions of design analyses for flood control channels and river structures.
- Computes water surface profiles for steady or unsteady and subcritical or supercritical conditions. Performs risk and uncertainty and superiority analyses for determining top of levee, channel profiles and initial overtopping locations.
- Designs riprap, other bank protection alternative measures, and river training structures.
Qualifications
US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education AND 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 Requirement for Civil Engineering: 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 qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes conducting a variety of hydraulic analyses in support of civil works design projects; and conducting engineering studies using variety of applications, to include hydraulic and hydrologic modeling software. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, 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:
Hydraulic EngineeringLeadershipManages and Organizes InformationTechnical Documentation
Pay Range
$90,512.00 - $117,669.00