About the Position: This position is located within the Dam Safety Modification Center (DSMC), which is co-located with the US Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District. You will serve as a regional subject matter expert on hydrologic and hydraulic engineering for dam safety modification and related products of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division (Region).
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Duties
- Develop hydraulic/hydrologic models and tools to be used for risk analysis and/or risk assessment to support risk informed decisions for periodic assessments, evaluation studies, hydraulic structure design formulation, and dam safety studies.
- Lead teams of professionals, assigning and reviewing work, establishing priorities, ensuring resources are available, and providing input to performance evaluations.
- Lead diverse hydraulic and hydrology teams in developing hydraulic and hydrologic products used by engineers and planners for dam safety projects across the region and nation.
- Mentor hydraulic and hydrologic engineers working for entities across the country, including other USACE Centers and districts.
- Perform agency technical review of major rehabilitation and dam safety modification products for USACE districts throughout the region for adequacy and accuracy of hydraulic and hydrologic analysis and design.
- Develop curriculum for Center-led courses for Federal civilian and military agencies and civil infrastructure industry partners.
- Represent USACE with DOD, other agencies/industry partners to develop and refine hydraulic and hydrologic analysis and design tools in dam safety mod activities and resolve problems affecting current/planned hydraulic/hydrologic engineering efforts
- Review and comment on dam safety modification products incorporating complex risk analyses, and coordinate with the Risk Management Center in evaluating the performance of USACE dams.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- This position requires a Professional Engineering (PE) License that is current and in good standing.
- Travel may be required up to approximately 20-30% of the time.
- Incumbent must possess or have the ability to acquire a state drivers license.
Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.
- Current Department of Army Civilian Employees
- Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)
- Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce
- Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan
- Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act
- Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473
- Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer
- Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible
- Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible
- Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement
- Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible
- Reinstatement
- Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998
Basic Requirement For Civil Engineer (Hydraulics):
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 in A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
- 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. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions.
In Addition To Meeting The Basic Requirement Above, To Qualify For This Position You Must Also Meet The Qualification Requirements Listed Below:
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes developing hydraulic and hydrologic models to be used for risk analysis, risk assessment, and/or design for dam safety projects to support risk informed decisions, and developing hydraulic dam break analyses. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).
NOTE: This position requires a Professional Engineering (PE) License that is current and in good standing.
You MUST include a copy of your professional license in order to be considered. If you fail to include a copy, you will NOT be considered.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
- Communications
- Hydraulic Engineering
- Hydrology
- Leadership
- Risk Management
Education
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 specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Additional information
- Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
- You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
- One year trial/probationary period may be required.
- Direct deposit of pay is required.
- Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
- If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
- This is a Career Program (CP) 18 - Engineers and Scientists position.
- Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
- Salary listed in this announcement is for 2024 RUS pay tables. Pay will be set IAW OPM Pay Setting guidelines. Depending on location, your pay will be set with the corresponding locality table. Pay may fall under a corresponding Special Salary Rate table, depending on location and proper approval procedures.
- When you perform a Civilian Permanent Change of Station (PCS) with the government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit https://www.dfas.mil/civilianemployees/civrelo/Civilian-Moving-Expenses-Tax-Deduction/ for more information.
- Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations.
- A Recruitment, Relocation or Retention incentive may be authorized. If an incentive is approved, you will be required to complete a service agreement. Additional incentives (such as superior qualifications, advanced leave accrual, student loan repayment, etc.) may be approved IAW OPM/DoD/Army regulations and are subject to funding and management approval.
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