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As Chief, Navigation Section, has Operations & Maintenance Program Management responsibilities for the navigation program within the Mobile District. The navigation program includes the Tennessee- Tombigbee Waterway, Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway, Alabama River Waterway, and Apalachicola- Chattahoochee-Flint Waterway. Provides technical guidance, managerial decision making and program support in the accomplishment of the District's Navigation Program.
Major Duties
- Provides technical guidance, managerial decision making and program support to Operations Project Managers in the accomplishment of the District's Navigation Program.
- Has overall District responsibility for providing technical support, standardized policy, coordination, and program compliance review for the District?s navigation program
- Coordination as appropriate with local, state and Federal navigation interests.
- Provides technical support, standardized policy, coordination, and program compliance review for the District?s navigation program including coordination as appropriate with local, state and Federal navigation interests.
- Oversees the development of the annual dredging schedule for the District?s program and the 5-year dredging schedule, ensuring maximum efficiencies are realized by optimizing dredge mobilizations.
- Participates in regional, and national dredge scheduling meetings.
- Oversees the development of pipeline, mechanical, and hopper dredge contract specifications and supports the Project Managers with their preparation.
- Furnishes technical information and assistance to Engineering and Contracting Divisions.
- Assist with the negotiation and drafting of contracts for new work and maintenance dredging, maintenance and repair of navigation structures, etc.,
Qualifications
Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Department of Army Civilian EmployeesDefense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Interchange AgreementDomestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel WorkforceInteragency Career Transition Assistance PlanLand Management Workforce Flexibility ActPriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligibleVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 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 Engineers:
A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. (NOTE: Transcripts must be submitted.) 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.
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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, 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 which includes: 1) Utilizing technical experience in all phases of inland and coastal shallow draft and deep draft dredging projects; (2) Contract acquisition planning, procurement, plans and specification development and administration related to the Coastal and Inland Navigation Missions; (3) Oversight of dredged material and placement site management; (4) Reviewing and analysis of hydrographic surveys; (5) Acquisition and repair of floating plant; and/or (6) Operation and maintenance of locks and dams. Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12). You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
LeadershipProject ManagementTechnical 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
$88,704.00 - $115,313.00