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LOCATION: Great Plains Region,Wyoming Area Office, Resources Management Division, Water & Civil Works Branch, Mills, WY.For living conditions go to: https://www.usbr.gov/gp/employment/living_conditions.pdfAdditionalvacancies may be filled from this vacancy announcement.
Major Duties
- Coordinates water management activities for the Wyoming Area Office (WYAO), including reservoir inflow forecasting, long and short term reservoir operations, water rights accounting, and hydrologic data collection and analysis.
- Coordinates Safety of Dams, Review of Operation and Maintenance (RO&M), and Emergency Management programs for the Wyoming Area Office. This requires regular inspections and reporting for 13 large dams and numerous irrigation diversion and delivery structures.
- Prepares written reports and oral presentations to WYAO management, other Reclamation personnel, representatives of other federal or state agencies, irrigation districts, other entities, and the public regarding the above noted water management, Safety of Dams, RO&M, and Emergency Management program activities and other subjects as assigned by management.
- Provides supervision for two Civil Engineers, three Interdisciplinary Engineers/Hydrologists, three Hydrologic Technicians, and two Civil Engineering Technicians.
- As directed by the Area Manager, coordinates with WYAO, Regional, and Denver staff on security and law enforcement matters, serving as the area office security coordinator.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:Applicants must first meet the Basic Education Qualification Requirements listed below: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 byABET; 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.
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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, and Puerto Rico.*For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at:http://www.nspe.org.**The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit:http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.
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.)
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT: In addition to meeting the Basic Education Qualification Requirements, applicants must have education and/orspecialized experience as defined below:GS-13:One year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-12 level in the Federal service.DEFINITION OF SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: To meet specialized experience, your resume must describe experience that demonstrates the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities as follows:
GS-13: Experience in one of the following water management activities: reservoir inflow forecasting, reservoir modeling, water rights, or reservoir operations; or experience in one of the following Safety of Dam activities: design, construction, operation, examination, or maintenance of concrete structures, earth embankment structures, or water conveyance structures; or the Supervision/Leading of others in these activities. Official supervisory experience is not required, but applicants should describe how they have demonstrated leadership inside or outside the office setting.
Pay Range
$102,288.00 - $125,895.00