Job Summary

Serves as Structural Design Team Lead overseeing the work of the team by ensuring quality, quantity, and timeliness of projects such as navigation locks, floodwalls, floodgates, control structures, pumping stations, etc.

Major Duties

Qualifications

Management has the discretion to fill this position in multiple ways:

1. Position may be filled as a temporary promotion or temporary reassignment NTE 1 year by a current permanent Army employee. Temporary promotions or reassignments may be extended up to a maximum of 5 years, and may be made permanent without further competition.

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2. Position may be filled as a Term appointment NTE 13 months if the candidate is not a current permanent Army employee. Term appointments may be extended up to a maximum of 8 years including the first year. Appointment may be made permanent without further competition. Return Rights for permanent Army employees selected for a time-limited promotion or reassignment to fill a temporary position:

1. New Orleans District Employees will be returned to the position from which he/she was temporarily promoted.

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2. New Orleans District Employees will be returned to a different position of equivalent grade and pay. There is no guarantee the employee will be returned to their original position of record.

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3. Army employees who do not reside in the New Orleans District must negotiate with their losing activity in order to obtain a written agreement as to their return rights to their current position. An agreement must be reached on whether the losing or gaining activity will assume responsibility for placement of the employee when the temporary promotion or reassignment ends. This agreement must occur before the employee begins the temporary promotion or reassignment. Return Rights for a Non-Army Permanent Federal Employee: There are no guaranteed placement or return rights for employees from other Federal agencies as this action will be processed as a time-limited Term appointment. The appointment may be terminated or extended at any time depending on the needs of management. 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 EmployeesPriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible

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 a Civil Engineer (Structural): 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.

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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 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 1) Assisting in the design of structural features of major water control structures such as locks, control structures, floodgates, concrete dams, bridges, pumping stations, floodwalls etc. AND; 2) Reviewing the drawings of contractors to insure specification conformance AND: 3) Assisting in the preparation of budget and program scheduling. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11 or above]). You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

DesignPlanning and EvaluatingTeamworkWriting

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a non-temporary 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). With regards to time-in-grade validation, if you held a position other than a GS pay plan, be sure your resume includes the pay plan and the salary you earned during the assignment. Without this information, your time-in-grade validation may not be able to be verified and will result in your not meeting the time-grade requirement for this vacancy. Time-In-Grade requirement must be met no later than 30 days after the closing date of this announcement.

Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

Pay Range

$86,017.00 - $111,827.00

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