Supervisory Interdisciplinary

Duties

• Assign projects to staff and communicate with Districts to determine design requirements.
• Manage, plan, coordinate, and resource a wide range of welding and metallurgy projects.
• Ensure the technical adequacy and design quality of all work performed by the team.
• Mentor and provide training for the professional development of junior personnel.
• Develop and prepare new technical guidance, design criteria, and standard drawings.
• Act as a special technical advisor and represent the District in conferences and on special studies.
• Coordinate and instruct technical workshops and training courses.
• Supervise a staff of engineers and quality assurance personnel.
• Manage staff performance, including reviews, appraisals, and corrective actions.
• Handle personnel administration tasks such as approving leave and certifying time and attendance.

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position requires a professional engineering license at entry.
• This position requires up to 25% travel.
• A supervisory probationary period may be required.

At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS‑12 level in federal service with the design of structural and/or mechanical engineering features associated with construction projects for navigation, flood control, bridge safety, hydraulic steel structures (HSS), hydroelectric and/or vertical construction projects.

Basic Requirement for Interdisciplinary Engineer (0810, 0830):

• Degree:
  Bachelor's degree (or higher) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must:
  • (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) 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.
• Combination of
  
  Education and Experience:
  
  College‑level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and 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:
  • 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.
  • Written Test—Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration.
  • 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 above.
  • 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.
• Foreign
  
  Education:
  
  If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that…