Civil Engineer; Structural

Position: CIVIL ENGINEER (STRUCTURAL)
Summary

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

About the Position: This is a Civil Engineer (Structural) GS-0810-13 position for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Southwestern Division, Tulsa District, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

For additional information on USACE Tulsa District

Learn more about this agency

Duties

Help

• Serve as a structural engineering staff specialist performing engineering quality assurance (QA) evaluations for MILCON, Civil Works, Regional Planning and Environmental Center (RPEC), and Support for Others programs.
• Incumbent provides evaluation of the quality of structural engineering products and processes
• Evaluate and respond to questions raised as a result of technical engineering review comments.
• Promote new structural engineering methods and construction techniques; identifies and resolves structural engineering issues for project deficiencies associated with Civil Works, RPEC, Support for Others, and MILCON projects.
• Improves the structural engineering quality of District designs by drafting SWD criteria to reflect results of site investigations and claims.
• Participate in Field Review Group Conferences, User Group Meetings, Corps-wide technical conferences, meetings with districts, other MSCs, HQUSACE, TCXs, and others to prioritize the Civil Works, RPEC, and MILCON structural engineering programs.

Requirements

Help

Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Obtain and Maintain valid state drivers license.
• Must possess a Professional Certification/License for an Engineer.
• **
  * NOTE:
  
  You MUST provide a copy of your Professional Engineer License with your application package or you will be rated ineligible.***

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the experience and/or education requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, Ameri Corps) 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 which includes:
1) Experience preparing and reviewing design calculations, drawings, specifications, construction submittals, shop drawings and/or technical reports to ensure they comply with established engineering criteria and standards; AND
2) Experience resolving structural engineering problems for projects such as dams, levees, bridges, or vertical construction; AND
3) Experience coordinating the structural engineering aspects of a project with multi-disciplinary teams throughout the design and construction phases. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).

Note:
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 aloneno substitution of education for experience is permitted.

In addition to meeting the specialized experience requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the basic education requirement listed below:

Education

Basic Requirements (for Engineers):

A. Degree:
Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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.…