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• Develops long and short-range program goals and objectives, priorities, and schedules. Develops the budget consistent with available funding resources to support the mission. Responsible for scheduling obligations and expenditures.
• Determine staffing need based on assigned workload, schedule, track, and recommend adjustments in order to fully use available resources.
• Monitor assigned contracts for compliance with construction CMR requirements. Raise deviations and advance solution in a timely manner. Ensure all reporting requirements are met.
• Personally, or through project engineers, provide technical supervision and administrative field control over construction performed by contractors on assigned contracts.
• Interprets plans and contract requirements and assures continuing Quality Assurance inspection of operations to assure construction complies with contract requirements. Makes periodic Quality Assurance visits to assigned projects.
• Resolve conflicting plan details or requirements, which become evident as construction progresses. Exercise engineering judgement to effect a practical solution to problems encountered.
• Personally or through project engineers monitor contract progress and obtain revised schedules when work is more than 10% behind schedule. Perform contract close out actions in a timely manner.
• As Administrative Contracting Officer ensure that modifications and other contract actions are processed in accordance with regulations and district policy.
• Supervises directly or through others the activities of a staff of project engineers, office engineers, construction representatives, engineering interns, engineering technicians, and clerical personnel assigned to the Resident and Area Offices.
• Assigns workload, explains areas of difficulty, plans/establishes new work methods, and interprets the more complex regulations, guides, and administrative polices. Selects employees, provides for training, and monitors/rates performance.

Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• The incumbent must obtain and maintain a valid state driver's license.
• This position requires a Foundational Career certification or contracting professional certification within 3 years of employment.
• Relocation/PCS MAY BE authorized.
• Recruitment/Relocation/Retention MAY BE authorized.
• See other requirements below.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and 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 Civil Engineer (0810) Series:

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.
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:

GS-13
Specialized Experience : One year of specialized experience which includes meeting all of the following:1) Apply practical knowledge of construction techniques for construction of complex Civil Works construction projects, such as dams, levees and/or spillways; 2) experience working with construction contractors and/or designers; 3) knowledge of construction contract administration; and 4) experience with Quality Assurance functions and procedures. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).

"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, valid and unrestricted license as a Professional Engineer in a state, the District of Columbia, or a territory of the United States.

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, 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.