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Serves as a Senior Structural Engineering Specialist, preforming structural reviews and evaluations for the Sacramento District Construction Division, Construction Support, Quality Assurance Section. This position is being filled under the DoD Direct Hire Authority for Certain Competitive Service Positions Section 9905 - STEM
Major Duties
- Serves as a Senior Structural Engineering Specialist, performing biddability, constructibility, and operability, environmental and sustainability (BCOES) reviews.
- Reviews and evaluates the structural portions of preliminary and final plans and specifications; reviewing and evaluating shop drawings and other contractor submittals.
- The work relates to a continuous construction program involving multi-million dollar expenditures, rigid time schedules, and new or novel construction methods.
- Assignments involve the full range of military and civil works construction projects but generally involve the larger, more diverse structures with complex structural requirements.
- Applies full professional engineering knowledge of structural dynamics, including distribution of loads, stresses resulting from loads, and strength of materials together with knowledge of construction methods and techniques.
- Reviews and resolves the most advanced structural engineering issues, and provides guidance to field office personnel including specialized projects such as aircraft maintenance facilities, composite medical facility, and multi-story buildings.
- Advanced work is characterized by the non-applicability of established construction criteria and technical precedent, inadequacy or unavailability of data, and/or frequent modification of work.
- In addition to a high level of structural engineering knowledge, requires knowledge of related engineering fields such as electrical, architectural, and mechanical for design integration and interface coordination.
Qualifications
US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or 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 (0810): 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 structural engineering knowledge engineering theory, principles, methods, and techniques related to structural engineering design and construction, along with an understanding of the various construction trades and crafts. Applying practical knowledge of construction contracting procedures and contract administration. 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.
Pay Range
$80,993.00 - $105,295.00