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Department of the Army

Job Summary

This is an Interdisciplinary position, GS-13 with the US Army Engineer District, Galveston Engineering & Construction Division, Engineering Branch located in Galveston, TX. RELOCATION/RECRUITMENT MAY BE OFFERED TO SELECTEE

Major Duties

  • Serve as the Architect-Engineer Coordinator technically responsible as the engineering expert for all Architect-Engineer contract matters, administering a program and serving as focal point of all activities in the subject field.
  • Act as top consultant and advisor to the senior Engineers and others on Architect-Engineer and Professional Service contract problems often of considerable depth and complexity.
  • Originate, develop and implement basic concepts and engineering approaches in an Architect-Engineer contract matters.
  • Perform close technical/engineering appraisals of all documents, including pre and post business clearance memoranda to assure engineering sufficiency, consistency and compliance with prevailing policies.
  • Closely review Government estimates for conformance to policy regulations.
  • Responsible for maintaining active qualification data on Architect-Engineer firms, interviewing representatives and securing current qualification data on a variety of basic information.
  • Supervise the analysis and classification of firms according to demonstrated specialties, personally performing such work for major and diversified firms.
  • Prepare standard operating procedures (SOPs) and special orders on Architect-Engineer contract work.
  • Interpret policies, regulations, and engineering criteria as they relate to Architect-Engineer contracting and provide such information to the staff.

Qualifications

RELOCATION/RECRUITMENT INCENTIVE 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. US Citizens 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 0801/0810/0830/0850 Series: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.

Basic Requirement for 0807 Series:A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in landscape architecture or landscape design

OR B. Combination of Education and Experience: For each year short of graduation, the applicant must have had one year of experience under professional leadership and guidance of such character and diversity as to be a satisfactory substitute for the required education. This experience must have included original landscape design.

Basic Requirement for 0808 Series:A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in architecture or in a related field that included 60 semester hours of course work in architecture or related disciplines of which at least (1) 30 semester hours were in architectural design, and (2) 6 semester hours were in each of the following: structural technology, properties of materials and methods of construction, and environmental control systems.

OR B. Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the arts and sciences underlying professional architecture, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the architectural principles, methods, and techniques and their applications to the design and construction or improvement of buildings. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by at least one of the following: (1) Related Curriculum - Degree in architectural engineering provided the completed course work in architectural engineering provided knowledge, skills, and abilities substantially equivalent to those provided in the courses specified in statement A above, or (2) Experience: 1 year of experience in an architect's office or in architectural work for each year short of graduation from a program of study in architecture. In the absence of any college courses, 5 years of such experience is required. This experience must have demonstrated that you have acquired a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles and theories of professional architecture. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the Federal service which includes: 1) Experience with planning and carrying out the management and execution of an Architect-Engineering contract program.; AND 2) Experience with developing new approaches for use of other engineering specialists in solving a variety of engineering problems; AND 3) Experience reviewing documentation necessary to execute modifications to fixed price contracts. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

Financial ManagementOral CommunicationProject Management

Pay Range

$101,641.00 - $132,130.00

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End Date: 

Monday, November 18, 2019