Civil Engineer; Hydraulics), GS

USACE Organization

Mississippi Valley Division (MVD) - St Paul District

TARP - Direct-Hire Authority (DHA)

Permanent

St Paul, MN

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD, Section 9905 to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. Qualified candidates may be called for an interview.

Serves as a Hydraulic Engineer responsible for the application of professional engineering knowledge and experience in the performance of a full range of hydraulic and hydrologic investigative, study, and reporting assignments is required as an integral part of the total engineering process. Those in this position are responsible for planning, scheduling, and completing work through personal effort requiring extensive coordination with other specialists, representatives of other governmental entities, or contract engineers for purposes of obtaining data, information, or technical support, or for providing hydraulic and hydrologic technical advice.

Main work duties include:

• Analyze the full range of hydraulic and hydrologic problems involved in complex flood protection planning for specified urban or rural areas, including the determination of design water surface profiles and interior flood control facilities pertinent to the study area. In a similar manner, prepare basic analytical data required for use in designing flood control reservoir and appurtenant features.
• Conduct hydrologic and hydraulic studies for complex environmental enhancement projects. Evaluate existing hydrologic and hydraulic conditions at proposed environmental enhancement sites. This can include discharges, elevations, velocity vectors, ice cover, wave conditions and sediment transport. Conduct hydraulic evaluation and design of proposed environmental enhancement measures. Determine hydraulic design of features such as closing dams, modifications to wing dams, openings to backwater areas, islands, protection of threatened sites, and channel and wetland restoration.
  
  Evaluate the impact of any proposals on the hydrologic, hydraulic and sediment transport characteristics of the area. These evaluations will be used to determine the environmental benefits and to determine the impacts on flooding, navigation and safety.
• Conduct hydrologic and hydraulic studies for complex navigation projects and structures. Conduct hydraulic analysis and design of navigation structures including wing dams, submerged weirs, channel closures, and lock and dam features. Conduct hydraulic analysis of towboat and recreational craft traffic and their impact on river and backwater hydrodynamics and sediment transport. Conduct hydraulic analysis to determine the impact of modifications to the navigation project on towboat and recreational craft.
  
  Conduct hydraulic analysis and design of modifications to the navigation project to reduce dredging costs, reduce adverse impacts on the rivers ecological system, or to improve traffic efficiency and safety. Tools used for hydraulic analysis of navigation projects include multi-dimensional hydrodynamic and sediment transport computer programs and models. Also provide review and coordination for physical models of navigation projects.
• Throughout all assignments, prepare sketches and drawings required to illustrate and/or justify technical adequacy of assumptions and results. Records all computations according to established methods to permit technical review. Documents and files study results in an organized manner in compliance with appropriate guidelines. During course of assignments, make assignments to and provides technical guidance for lower-graded employees assisting in assignment. Participate in conferences with other District employees to discuss and establish technical hydraulic requirements and objectives for projects and individual features.
• Compose narrative reports concerning studies. Utilize concise form and language understandable to the audience it is planned to instruct (i.e., professional and/or non-professional). Prepare technical appendices of carefully organized data supporting and amplifying summarized data of main reports. Appendices are intended for use of technical personnel. Make oral presentations of hydrologic and hydraulic efforts to the study team and at public meetings.
• Provide technical guidance to, and review for technical adequacy the work of lower graded personnel peers and consulting engineers for hydrologic and hydraulic studies.

Specialized

Experience:

One year of specialized experience which includes meeting both of the following:
1) Interpret field data for use in civil engineering (hydraulic) design and investigations; and
2) assist with hydrologic and/or hydraulic analysis for flood risk management, environmental restoration/enhancement, navigation, and/or bank stabilization/erosion projects. This…