Supervisory Civil Engineer

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St Paul District Engineering and Construction Division, Department of the Army

Job Summary

This position is with the St Paul District, Engineering and Construction Division. The St. Paul District plans, designs, builds, and operates water resource projects to benefit the people of Minnesota, western Wisconsin, northeastern North Dakota, portions of South Dakota and Iowa, and the nation. We are responsible for supporting inland navigation, helping communities reduce damages caused by flooding, environmental restoration, and emergency response to disasters.

Major Duties

  • Serves as Resident Engineer and Administrative Contracting Officer (ACO) for assigned construction contract work.
  • Work includes dam rehabilitation on flood control dams, flood protection and flood control projects, channel maintenance and protection projects, environmental management programs, work for other agencies, and misc. Operations and Maintenance work.
  • Develops long and short-range program goals, and objectives, priorities, and schedules compatible with higher headquarters.
  • Develops the budget consistent with available funding resources to support the mission. Responsible for scheduling obligations and expenditures on assigned projects.
  • Monitor assigned contracts for compliance with construction requirements. Identify deviations and advance solutions in a timely manner. Ensure all reporting requirements are met.
  • Provide technical supervision and administrative field control over construction performed by contractors on assigned contracts.
  • Interprets plans and contract requirements and assures continuing Quality Assurance inspection of operations to assure construction complies with contract requirements.
  • As Administrative Contracting Officer, ensure that modifications and other contract actions are processed in accordance with regulations and district policy.
  • Supervises directly or through others the activities of a staff of project engineers, office engineers, construction representatives, engineering interns, engineering technicians, and clerical personnel.

Qualifications

This vacancy is open to all U.S. Citizens who meet the Conditions of Employment and Qualifications as defined in this vacancy announcement. 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. Educational requirement: 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: 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. 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. 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. 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 or more years of specialized experience at the GS-12 level or equivalent in the Federal Service. Examples of specialized experience should include at least three of the following : performing project oversight, design consulting, and construction contract administration for the construction, repair, and alteration of facilities; application of engineering, project management, construction management, and procurement methods and techniques; inspection of construction and building systems; application of construction and A-E cost estimating techniques; and/or experience either developing or interpreting engineering and architectural plans and specifications. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

Construction Inspection and Quality ManagementConstruction ManagementInterpersonal SkillsLeadershipPlanning and Evaluating

Pay Range

$88,704.00 - $115,313.00

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End Date: 

Friday, November 29, 2019