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Serves as the Buffalo District and Regional Subject Matter Expert (SME) in cost engineering for Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (HTRW) projects, including Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP), Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS), and Environmental Interagency and International Services/Support for Others (IIS/SFO) programs.
Major Duties
- Performs engineering work in preparing construction cost estimates for large and complex environmental and civil works systems and components used in HTRW and other civil projects.
- Nature of assignments span the complete lifecycle of environmental remediation projects.,
- Prepares budget cost estimates from sketches and conceptual approaches.
- Develops approximate cost of materials and remediation construction, considering the trades and crafts involved, construction techniques and equipment required.
- Performs of cost and schedule estimation and risk analysis for large scale construction and HTRW remedial action (RA) projects.
- Prepares detailed cost estimate from a construction contractor?s viewpoint requiring a careful analysis and comprehensive evaluation.
- From scopes of work and/or plans and specifications, prepares Independent Government Cost Estimates for competitive bidding or negotiation.
- Reviews contractor protests and defends Government estimates as required.
- Keeps current on general construction costs; analyzes costs, trends, and other information derived from various sources of information for use in evaluating and computing costs.
- Performs quality assurance reviews on complex construction and HTRW RA project requirements, deliverables, designs, cost estimates, and schedules.
Qualifications
US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education 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 Requirements:
A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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)1, 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)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of
Columbia, Guam, and 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 the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
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 bachelor's 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.) Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes a broad experience and knowledge of cost estimating methods and automation tools, Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (HTRW) projects and cost methodologies, construction engineering, scheduling, contract acquisition and administration for complex HTRW contracts, and negotiation procedures, as well as performing cost and schedule risk analysis and quality assurance reviews for cost estimates and schedules. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-13). 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:
Cost Estimation and AnalysisEnvironmental Policy and StrategyInterpersonal SkillsTechnical Competence
Pay Range
$94,575.00 - $122,950.00