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See "Who May Apply" in the "Qualifications" section for more information on who is eligible to apply for this position.

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• Serves as team leader for a subordinate staff of engineers and technicians.
• Provide advice and guidance to district multidiscipline study team members and design teams to improve procedures and results and to ensure the technical engineering adequacy and competency of all products and services.
• Manage the execution of technical engineering services for complex water resources projects - shallow and deep draft navigation, waterway infrastructure, integrated water management plans, watershed assessments, flood risk mgmt, water and dam safety.
• Advises customers on how best to resolve technically complex water resources engineering problems.
• Ensure performance, quality, execution is consistent with established Project Management Plan (PMP).
• Coordinates and monitors schedules, progress, and suspense dates to ensure work is completed when required.
• Articulate and communicate to a multidiscipline team, the assignment, the project, problem to be solved, actionable events, milestones, and/or program issues under review, and deadlines and time frames for completion.
• Actively communicates resource needs, task objectives, concerns, and recommendations to supervisory staff to ensure implementation of courses of action to meet program objectives and expectations.

Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Temporary Duty Travel of 100% OCONUS is required.
• Able to obtain and maintain a applicable work visa.
• Able to obtain and maintain an Official U.S. Government (Red) Passport
• This position requires the physical ability to complete general field inspection activities under austere conditions.

Qualifications

*POSITION MAY BE FILLED AS A TEMPORARY PROMOTION OR TEMPORARY REASSIGNMENT NOT TO EXCEED ONE YEAR BY A CURRENT PERMANENT ARMY EMPLOYEE. TEMPORARY PROMOTIONS OR TEMPORARY REASSIGNMENTS MAY BE EXTENDED UP TO A MAXIMUM OF FIVE YEARS, AND MAY BE MADE PERMANENT WITHOUT FURTHER COMPETITION.*

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

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) 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.

Basic Requirement for Lead 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.

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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.

3. 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.

4. 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: (1) Organizing, directing, and managing the execution of engineering services for complex water resources projects, (2) Planning, scheduling, directing, coordinating, advising, and reviewing the work of multi-disciplinary engineering teams, (3) Preparing engineering studies, designs, and analysis reports, or (4) Managing Quality Assurance/Quality Control to ensure technical adequacy and compliance with established criteria, sound engineering principles, and professional practices. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-13).

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 alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.


Selective Placement Factor: This position has selective placement factor which must be met prior to employment and for continued employment. This position requires a current, active, and valid Professional Engineer (PE) license the District of Columbia, or a territory of the United States.

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

• Civil Engineering
• Leadership
• Oral Communication
• Project Management

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-13).

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Once the announcement has closed, a review of your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your résumé and supporting documentation will be compared against your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If, after reviewing your résumé and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in your resume as that information may be taken into consideration during the selection process. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documentation.