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• Provide oversight of inland navigation design engineering studies, designs, plans, specifications and cost estimates, engineering risk and reliability techniques, and regional engineering design resources.
• Improve the performance of engineering assets and provides improved approaches to common problems and solutions to new problems associated with the most complex, interrelated, and unprecedented issues and threats associated with USACE locks.
• Lead design efforts as project functional leads and oversees all inland navigation assets in so far as to determine areas of design weakness and finding opportunities to make improvements through training, mentoring and oversight.
• Provide the strategic vision, executive oversight, and overarching technical direction for the activities of the division supervised.
• Perform full range of supervisory duties for an office staff highly technical professional employee.
• Provide leadership building the bench to maintain technical competency and meet program goals.
• Coordinate with multiple districts, Chiefs of Engineering and Construction, Project Managers, and DPMs to provide resources and technical expertise to execute the timely delivery of documents relating to inland navigation program.
• Responsible for producing complex, non-routine inland navigation design documents and expertise.
• Participate as technical leader in various meetings, conferences, seminars, or intra-agency panel discussions at the local, regional, national, and international levels.
• Coordinate work direction of functional activities, resolves problem areas and critical issues within functions and technical areas, and provides leadership in precedent-setting technical issue resolution.
• Direct and coordinate the work efforts of subordinate personnel engaged in studies, designs, risk analysis methods, training, and reviews on both regional and national scales.
• Formulate policy and makes long range plans in connection with prospective changes in functions and programs.

Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• An eligible candidate will hold a hold a current Professional Engineer or Professional Geologist license. THIS MUST BE INCLUDED IN YOUR APPLICATION PACKAGE FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION.
• One year trial/probationary period may be required.
• The position requires the incumbent to possess and maintain a valid state issued motor vehicle driver's license.
• This is a remote position. A remote employment agreement must be signed and reviewed annually

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens

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 Professional Engineering Positions:
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.

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.

Basic Requirement for Supervisory Geologist, GS-1350:
A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in geology, plus 20 additional semester hours in any combination of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological science, structural, chemical, civil, mining or petroleum engineering, computer science, planetary geology, comparative planetology, geophysics, meteorology, hydrology, oceanography, physical geography, marine geology, and cartography.

OR

B. Combination of Education and Experience: Course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. (Note: Acceptable experience may have been gained through geological field or laboratory work that provided a means of obtaining professional knowledge of the theory and application of the principles of geology and closely related sciences, e.g., geophysics, geochemistry, or hydrology. Such work generally must have involved making close observations, taking samples, handling various types of instruments and equipment, assembling geologic data from source materials, and analyzing and reporting findings orally and in writing. In some situations, professional scientific experience in other fields may be accepted in part as professional geological experience. Such experience must have been preceded by appropriate education in geology or by professional geological experience, and must have contributed directly and significantly to the applicant's professional geological competence. To receive credit for geological experience obtained in positions that are not full-time professional geological positions, the applicant is responsible for indicating clearly the actual time or percentage of time devoted to geologic duties within such positions, and for giving adequate descriptions of the geologic functions.)


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

Specialized Experience required for qualification at the GS-14 level:
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes overseeing the execution of technical work to ensure compliance with industry design standards; provide administrative and policy direction in terms of broadly defined missions or functions of the agency; assisting in planning, establishing and administering Division aspects of inland navigation design and receiving guidance in terms of objectives to be accomplished. 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.

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

• Administration and Management
• Engineering Management
• Leadership
• Technical Competence

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 resume and supporting documentation will be compared against your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If, after reviewing your resume 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.

Veterans and Military Spouses will be considered along with all other candidates.