Job Summary
Reclamation is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as a Supervisory Civil Engineer in the Materials and Corrosion Laboratory Group. You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing water demands while protecting the environment.
Major Duties
- Provides guidance, oversite, planning and organization of Group staff. Coaches and mentors staff to successful accomplishment of work tasks, and exceptional customer service.
- Plans, organizes and executes succession planning by identifying critical core engineering capability skillsets as required to support water resource structures.
- Ensures that no single expertise resides with only one staff member (single-point-failure) by cross training staff to develop, maintain and promote redundant engineering skillset capability.
- Plans and organizes Group work activities by ensuring that resources provided are equipped with knowledge, skills, support system, and overall technical support.
- Performs peer reviews of technical products and assures an appropriate level of technical review is incorporated into the group work products.
- Develops and implements continuous improvement of processes to ensure technical products/services provided by the technical group are technically adequate and provided in a timely, efficient manner.
- Provides direct supervision of all staff within the Group. Reviews and evaluates operations to make work assignments.
- Develops performance standards, evaluates work performance, and resolves serious work-related problems or complaints.
Qualifications
SELECTIVE PLACEMENT FACTOR:This position requires a current valid professional engineering license or a certified Protective Coatings Specialist through the Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC) or a NACE CP-3 or a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM). Failure to provide proof of this license with your application will make you ineligible
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:Applications must first meet the Basic Education Qualification Requirements listed below:
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), 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.
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 additional specialized experience as defined below.
GS-14: One year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal Government.
DEFINITION OF SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: To meet specialized experience, your resume must describe experience that demonstrates the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities as follows: Examples of specialized experience includes: engineering experience in the materials science of corrosion control and it's use in construction and rehabilitation of water resource structures; experience with materials testing and laboratory studies as well as experience leading, coaching, and mentoring a multi-disciplined work group.
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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Pay Range
$127,066.00 - $154,957.00