Civil Engineer (Hydraulics)

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Department of the Army

Job Summary

U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, GALVESTON DISTRICT, ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION DIVISION, H&H/ RESERVOIR CONTROL BRANCH, GALVESTON, TX RELOCATION/RECRUITMENT INCENTIVE OF UP TO 25% OF SALARY MAY BE OFFERED TO SELECTEE OF THIS POSITION.

Major Duties

  • Serve as Hydraulic and Hydrologic Regional Technical Specialist, on applying statistical hydrology risk and uncertainty analyses for navigation, flood damage reduction, environmental, water supply sediment, and other Civil Works projects.
  • Provides authoritative advice on reservoir operations as a system or standalone project.
  • Performs special studies of alternative hydrologic engineering and hydraulic engineering such as operational studies, storage reallocations and forecasting techniques all which enhanced real-time water management.
  • Provides authoritative approval on hydrologic engineering, hydraulic engineering for reservoir storage, operational river system studies
  • Attends Quality Assurance conferences. Participates at public hearings, regional and national level meetings, committees, and professional conferences involving specialty areas of expertise.

Qualifications

RELOCATION/RECRUITMENT INCENTIVE: RELOCATION INCENTIVE OF UP TO 25% OF SALARY MAY BE OFFERED TO SELECTEE OF THIS POSITION. SELECTEE MUST SIGN THREE (3) YEAR PERIOD OF SERVICE (POS) AGREEMENT BEFORE ASSIGNMENT TO THE NEW POSITION. EMPLOYEE MUST AGREE TO COMPLETE THE 3 YEAR PERIOD OF SERVICE IN NEW POSITION. EMPLOYEE MUST PHYSICALLY RELOCATE TO THE NEW DUTY STATION BEFORE THE RELOCATION INCENTIVE WILL BE PAID. IF EMPLOYEE WISHES TO TERMINATE THEIR POS AGREEMENT RECOUPMENT PROCEDURES WILL BE INITIATED. Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Department of Army Civilian EmployeesCurrent Permanent Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel WorkforceInteragency Career Transition Assistance PlanLand Management Workforce Flexibility ActMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Non-Department of Defense (DoD) TransferPriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligibleReinstatementVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 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 Engineer:

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:

GS-13 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service which includes experience performing the following duties:

1) Experience working with Hydraulic Engineering, Hydrologic Engineering or Coastal Engineering as an expert in hydraulic engineering for civil works projects. 2) Experience in preparation of flood control benefits and real-time water management to review studies, process and concepts for the operations. GS-12 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service which includes experience performing the following duties: 1) Experience working in engineering fields to include civil, geotechnical, project management to ensure fully coordinated compatible studies in flood control benefits and real-time water management. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

Oral CommunicationProject ManagementTechnical Problem Solving Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-11 or 12).

Pay Range

$88,214.00 - $136,370.00

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End Date: 

Wednesday, January 22, 2020