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Posted: March 11, 2026 (2 days ago)

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Interdisciplinary

United States Army Installation Management Command

Department of the Army

Fresh

Location

Salary

$110,847 - $144,102

per year

Type

Closes

March 23, 2026

GS-12 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $74,441 - $96,770

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-11. Advanced degree + significant experience.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job is for an interdisciplinary engineering role at a U.S. Army base in Alabama, where you'll apply engineering knowledge to support military installations and operations.

It involves using technical skills in areas like mechanics, materials, and systems to solve real-world problems in a government setting.

A good fit would be someone with a solid engineering background, practical experience, and an interest in defense-related work.

Key Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET-accredited program or equivalent education in engineering sciences
  • Combination of education and experience demonstrating knowledge of physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering
  • Professional registration or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE), Engineer Intern (EI), or Engineer in Training (EIT)
  • Successful passage of the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or equivalent written test for licensure
  • At least 60 semester hours of relevant courses in physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences
  • Relevant paid or unpaid experience, including volunteer work, clearly described in resume
  • U.S. citizenship required for this Direct Hire Authority position

Full Job Description

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce-F positions to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

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.

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Basic Requirement for All Professional 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 requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Interdisciplinary Engineer: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: I have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 or above grade level in the Federal service which includes: 1) Providing guidance on construction and design requirements; 2) preparing documentation for execution of Military Construction (MILCON) and Non-MILCON projects; 3) providing guidance on issues related to infrastructure planning, construction, environmental impact and mission impacts as related to local Installation Design Standards, applicable building codes and policies; 4) representing the organization on matters relating to long-range and short-range planning, and construction planning.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service GS-12 or above.

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. Major Duties:

  • Developments and executes significant master planning policies and programs that embrace a range of subjects directly or indirectly concerned with research and development, testing, environment, safety, and logistic support.
  • The master planner must apply expert professional judgment to solve new problems that are unique and have major uncertainties and conditions.
  • Develops, analyzes, determines, and prepares necessary resources to correct real property deficiencies
  • Represents the installation at the Army level review boards defending projects submitted, answering detailed questions on environmental issues, mission impacts, and relationship to DA policies.
  • Negotiates solutions between contractors, contracting agents and facility users, considering Project Budgets, Army Regulatory Guidance, Programmatic Requirements and Contractual Obligations to find outcomes agreeable to all stakeholders.
  • Seeks out solutions to complex engineering problems related to all fields of engineering and construction
  • Provides guidance to tenants in identifying Department of Public Works requirements and prepares necessary documentation for execution of MILCON and Non-MILCON projects

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/11/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/12/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: MC FT-26-12904276-DHA