Engineering Technician (Civil)

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, SWD, Ft Worth District with a duty station location listed in "Location" section.

This announcement is for current, permanent Army employees considered for a time-limited promotion, reassignment or change to lower grade.

External status candidates should apply to Announcement #CEDD-26-12891580-MP. Go to "Additional Information" below for further details.

Who May Apply: 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 Employees Applying on Time-Limited Assignments In order to qualify, you must meet the 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.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience in the Federal service which includes: 1) construction management (quality and schedule management and technical issue resolution), and 2.) construction contract administration (scoping and negotiation of modifications, submittal review, and payments), and supervision of subordinate professional employees.

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.

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-11).

Major Duties:

• Analyze, evaluate, and select the best method of contract delivery of construction contract for wide variety of conventional and complex multi-purpose project.
• Conducts cost estimation/cost analysis, evaluation and negotiations of complex and costly modifications and claim.
• Lead negotiation with contractor for new contract and participate in the most difficult negotiation of modification as a representative of the Contracting Officer.
• Prepare Finding of Fact with exhibit for claim, which are anticipated to be lengthy, complex and/or contain unusual cost factor.
• Prepare estimate for monetary claim, which are anticipated to be forwarded to ASBCA for a decision on merit and/or quantum.
• Monitor preparation and/or submission of documents necessary for timely contract closeout in accordance with contract requirements.