CIVIL ENGINEER (STRUCTURAL)

Full Job Description

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: Serves as the Technical Specialist on military projects. Duties include providing structural engineering quality control by serving on complex projects.

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 EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENT FOR CIVIL ENGINEER 0810 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.

Specialized Experience for GS-12: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1.) Review structural designs, calculations, and related documentation for accuracy and compliance with applicable standards, 2.) Conduct inspections and assessments of structural components and construction activities, 3.) Evaluate submittals, shop drawings, and construction methods, providing recommendations as needed, AND 4.) Prepare technical reports and documentation to support project quality, safety, and performance.

Specialized Experience for GS-12: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1.) Serve as a technical expert providing guidance and oversight on complex structural engineering projects, 2.) Review and evaluate advanced structural designs and analyses for compliance and feasibility, 3.) Provide recommendations on technical issues, design modifications, and project execution, AND 4.) Coordinate with contractors, design teams, and stakeholders to resolve structural engineering challenges.

Major Duties:

• Review structural design drawings, specifications, calculations, and load analysis for accuracy, safety, and compliance with applicable codes.
• Provides support during construction or fabrication of structural steel.
• Drafts Design Memoranda or other reports covering structural design for military project with full justification of all data compiled in connection with the reports.
• Coordinates structural design with the functions of other organizational segments.
• Responsible for review or approval of structural elements in studies, design packages.
• Serves as an Independent Technical Reviewer on a full range of projects from planning through construction, on all aspects involving structural engineering, for both in-house and A-E products.