Civil Engineer

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About the Position: Serves as the leading regional technical expert dealing with the overall risk and reliability aspects of dam and levee safety within the Regional Business Center for the Pacific Ocean Division (POD).

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 ALL ENGINEER POSITIONS 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 requirements above for either the engineer or architect, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience for GS-14: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) applying advanced engineering principles to monitor design and construction projects; 2) implementing quality assurance procedures and participating in construction evaluations; and 3) analyzing construction problems to recommend solutions.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-13).

Selective Placement Factor: This position requires a current, active, valid, and unrestricted license as a Professional Engineer and/or Architect in a state, the District of Columbia, or a territory of the United States.

(You MUST submit a copy of your license or certification with your application package, or you will be rated ineligible.) Major Duties:

• Serves as the regional technical expert in Civil Engineering in the Pacific Ocean Division (POD) and principal advisor on matters of planning and engineering and construction.
• Reviews and interprets technical data, criteria and higher headquarters' policy and regulations and provide overall technical guidance for the Division of Civil Engineering features of work.
• Serves as the regional Dam Safety Program Manager and Levee Safety Program Manager for POD and leads in the region with respect to interpreting new or emerging policy, guidance and procedures.
• Provides programmatic, policy and quality assurance oversight of District Quality Control programs for engineering and construction products.
• Leads assigned Regional Communities of Practice (CoP's) and serve as the POD representative on national level CoP's.