Civil Engineer

Serves as a Civil Engineer for the Office of Airports (ARP), District Office in the Central Region, in support of the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). Serves as the principal Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) organization responsible for all airport program matters in airport design, construction, maintenance, operations and safety.

The FV-G level Engineer is entry level, specialized experience is not applicable. See applicable OPM Qualification Standard: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

To qualify for this position at the FV-H level, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-G, FG/GS-5/7/9. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position and that is typically in or related to work of the position to be filled.

Specialized experience includes:
1) Experience reviewing and commenting on project engineering design drawings and specifications, including construction safety phasing plans.
2) Experience reviewing and commenting on contracts, change orders, and/or supplemental agreements.
3) Experience gathering and analyzing data from a variety of sources and presenting findings via report or formal briefing.

To qualify for this position at the FV-I level, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-H, FG/GS-11/12. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position and that is typically in or related to work of the position to be filled.

Specialized experience for this position includes:
1) Experience reviewing and commenting on airport project engineering design drawings and specifications, including construction safety phasing plans.
2) Experience in identifying and resolving complex airport engineering problems/issues.
3) Experience in making recommendations on airport improvements.
4) Experience conveying technical airport engineering information to a variety of audiences.

As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the application in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.

In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided.

Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate.

Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s) if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

(KSA) listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration.