Supervisory Civil Engineer

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Southwestern Division (SWD), Department of the Army

Job Summary

This position is with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, Engineering and Construction Division, Engineering Branch, located in Galveston, TX. Note: A relocation or recruitment incentive of up to 25% of salary may be authorized.

Major Duties

  • You will work under the general supervision of the Branch Chief, wherein work is assigned on a functional basis with responsibility for planning, coordinating, and accomplishing assignments vested in the position
  • Serve as Structural Section Chief with responsibility for supervision of the, structural engineering design work of the flood control, navigation, and coastal protection projects under jurisdiction of the District.
  • Responsibility for the technical sufficiency and conformance to criteria of the structural engineering design portions of reports, design memoranda, and contract plans and specifications.
  • Work closely with the Section's Project Lead Structural Engineers in planning projects and preparing project schedules and budgets.
  • Responsible for the technical adequacy in all matters related to structural engineering which presents numerous problems of significant depth and, complexity.
  • Responsible for the investigation and reporting of construction materials and concrete mix designs and makes recommendations to construction personnel regarding the suitability of proposed materials and mix proportions.
  • Meet with and/or attends conferences with architect-engineer firms, local interests, customer representatives, higher echelon officials, and others to furnish authoritative technical data and advice regarding structural engineering design matters.

Qualifications

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 Civil Engineer :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 equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service which includes experience performing the following duties: 1) Working geotechnical, structural, and/or coastal engineering design related to flood control, navigation, or coastal protection projects. AND 2) Preparing project schedules and budgets. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

Project ManagementQuality AssuranceTechnical Competence Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-12).

Pay Range

$104,898.00 - $136,370.00

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End Date: 

Wednesday, February 5, 2020