Civil Engineer (Hydraulics)

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Engineering and Construction Division, Engineering Branch, Hydrology, Hydraulics, & Coastal Section, Department of the Army

Job Summary

This position is located in the Engineering and Construction Division, Engineering Branch, Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Coastal Section of the US Army Corps of Engineers in Philadelphia, PA.

Major Duties

  • You will serve as the Corps Water Management System Specialist for the Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Coastal Section, specifically for the work generated in development and implementation.
  • Apply independent professional judgment to coordinate multidisciplinary teams across the district, divisional and organizational boundaries engaged in Corps Water Management System model development and implementation involving modeling software.
  • Review and approve technical aspects of hydrologic and hydraulic Corps Water Management System investigations and presentations prepared by lower graded, less experienced engineers.
  • Conduct hydrologic and hydraulic studies of natural, urbanized and urbanizing basins to predict runoff and sedimentation characteristics under changing watershed conditions due to planned development.
  • Apply models and analyzes results for development of plans for flood control, water supply and quality, channel design and stabilization.
  • Prepare analysis and designs for preliminary studies, survey reports, design memoranda, plans and specifications. Develop plans and techniques to accomplish complex assignments that may require significant modifications.
  • Ensure that the Region's strategic plan, mission, and values related to engagement in Corps Water Management System are communicated and integrated into the team strategies, goals, objectives, work plans, products and services.
  • Identify, distribute, and balance the Corps Water Management System workload and tasks of the Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Coastal team and make adjustments to accommodate workload.
  • Coordinate with various audiences to further Corps Water Management System modeling capabilities. Convey complex technical information to technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

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 EmployeesDomestic 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.) 13473Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligibleVeterans 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 (Hydraulics): 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: To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as experience applying knowledge in multi-dimensional and hydrodynamic applications with advanced knowledge in hydrology and hydraulic theories and concepts for surface water studies, experience in planning and conducting hydrologic and hydraulic problems particularly related to water management development and implementation, and experience in developing complex hydrology and hydraulic engineering models. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

Civil EngineeringHydraulic EngineeringLeadershipOral CommunicationTechnical Competence 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-12).

Pay Range

$99,170.00 - $128,924.00

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End Date: 

Monday, March 23, 2020