Civil Engineer, GS-0810-12, (25734)

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. Applications must be submitted after 12:01 AM (ET) of the posted Job Posting Open Date and before 11:59 PM (ET) of the posted Job Posting Close Date to receive consideration.

Serves as Operations Project Manager for Operations and Maintenance of the assigned navigation projects is the district focal point to the O&M of the projects.

• Coordinates and integrates the development of project management plans to include schedules, budgets, work breakdown, and construction quality control plans for routine operations and maintenance actions.
• Updates PROMIS/PPDS scheduling information for assigned projects for District Civil Project Review Board presentations ensuring the accuracy of budget estimates and CEFMS cost data.
• Disseminates current schedules, budgets and issues to functional elements and Project Management Division and reviews execution of projects related to responsible Operations and Maintenance projects when assigned to other district elements.
• Ensures adequate cross-functional input from planning, project management, engineering, construction, real estate, legal and other internal disciplines.
• Negotiates, recognizes the need for new or different courses of action; analyzes and evaluates facts; resolves problems of major significance.
• Integrates all facets of assigned projects, including technical or environmental problems, potential fiscal and physical delays, contract awards, outstanding claims and pertinent regulatory permit applications.
• Serves as District focal point and public/customer interface for assigned Operations and Maintenance projects.
• Provides technical direction for all matters related to Operations and Maintenance of navigation projects. Drafts scopes of work for acquisition of Operations and Maintenance contracts, including dredging.
• Monitors channel conditions and analyzes shoaling to continuously perform trade-off decisions for contract formulations.
• Works closely with the Dredging Team to formulate dredging orders based on changing channel conditions.
• Makes periodic visits to project sites to observe conditions, progress of work, construction methods and to monitor the effectiveness of quality assurance/quality control systems.
• Provides guidance to other OPMs under the direction of the Section Chief for assigned tasks and projects associated with Navigation Operations and Maintenance projects.

Basic Requirement for Civil Engineer:

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.

Specialized Experience: Requirement:

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service which includes: Developing and maintaining schedules, budgets, acquisition plans and specifications and quality control plans. Providing technical direction to junior employees. Ensuring coordination with other district elements, such as planning, engineering, construction, real estate and legal, outside agencies, stakeholders and sponsors, to execute assigned projects. Knowledge of deep draft navigation, dredging and topographic and hydrographic surveys. Identifying, monitoring and reporting on issues threatening project execution and develop and present solutions to those issues. Leading contract acquisition, execution and close-out efforts.
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All positions require the applicant to be a citizen of the United States.

Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, are required to register for Selective Service prior to appointment.

A trial or probationary period may be required.

Direct deposit of pay is required.

This position requires that the incumbent possess or obtain and maintain a valid state Driver's License in one of the 50 U.S. states or possessions to operate vehicles.

This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 25% of the time.