Civil Engineer (Structural)
What you'd do
This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: This is a Civil Engineer (Structural) GS-0810-13 for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tulsa District, located in Tulsa, OK. Duty Location is Tulsa, OK. Incumbent must be comfortable working at heights in an under-bridge inspection truck (snooper truck).
Major duties
Function as a structural engineering technical specialist in the Infrastructure Branch with program management responsibilities for the District’s bridge and hydraulic structural steel inspection programs. Ensure the District is in compliance with applicable engineering regulations. Interacts with higher level offices as circumstance demands. Develop and submit program budgets, monitors expenditures, and assists in projecting future funding requirements to meet the inspection goals. Provide structural engineering expertise and guidance to departmental chiefs and counterparts at the District, USACE, government agencies and private interests. Serves as the District's Bridge Program Manager. Schedule meetings, maintains bridge database, develops inspection resourcing plans, resolves resourcing conflicts, manages program budgets and funding, and provides technical and administrative advice and assistance to leadership. Assist Hydraulic Structural Steel (HSS) Program manager with the inspection program. This requires coordination with the Operations Division to develop a 5-year inspection plan, including schedule and budget, and resources necessary for inspection. Review and approves structural engineering features and applications of planning, design and construction documentation for bridges, gates and other HSS (hydraulic structural steel) features. Perform quality control reviews, independent technical reviews and value engineering studies within the structural discipline. Act as technical structural consultant to Project Management and Resource Management on issues dealing with systemic processes and procedures. Provides technical support to Construction Division in non-routine matters involving disputes, differing interpretations of contract requirements and/or complex relationships of systems and subsystems.
What you need to qualify
Who May Apply: 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 (Structural): 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 by Performing structural engineering design or analyses for structures which include dams or bridges, AND Inspecting structures to identify or recommend solutions to current condition or construction deficiencies; AND Communicating with management, organizational personnel, customers, or contractors to successfully resolve complex issues related to structural engineering design. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12). 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. ***NOTE: You MUST provide a copy of your transcripts with your application package or you will be rated ineligible.***
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