Summary

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Direct Hire Authority, 5 U.S.C. 9905, dated 06/23/2023 to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

These announcements are for deployment tours varying length with 6 months, 9 months or 1 year being the most often used when under a Temporary Appointment.

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Duties

• Applies specialized professional knowledge on civil engineering and water and related land resources planning to develop the water resources program within a theater of operations
• Prepares analysis of findings and related recommendations with detailed explanations of procedural concepts or analytical techniques
• Reviews preliminary and final designs prepared by other engineers within the organization to assure technical adequacy and compliance
• Review of plans and designs and original design development for civil engineering features of a multi-million dollar construction program being carried out in several foreign countries
• Reviewed designs may be developed either within the team, by the engineering staffs of expeditionary forces, other government organizations, or by Architect-Engineer (A-E) teams from a number of civilian construction firms
• Technical designs originated include designs for self-contained military installations airfields, highways, medical facilities, buildings utilities, power plants, distribution systems, and requirements for both horizontal and vertical design
• Selects optimum design approaches from a technical and economic standpoint
  
  

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Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• MEDICAL EXAMINATION - This position requires you to satisfactorily complete a medical examination for deployment. Minimal standards of fitness for deployment: https://www.centcom.mil/Portals/6/MEDICAL/MOD17_Tab_A.pdf
• PASSPORT AND VISA - This position requires the incumbent to possess or obtain and maintain an official US passport and VISA as applicable based on duty location.
• WORK SCHEDULE - This position may entail extended work shifts that last 12-16 hours a day. Lack of sleep may occur due to long working hours.
• LIVING CONDITIONS - The incumbent’s living conditions range from having all basic amenities such as including utilities like: light, power, water, and refrigeration; to having none of these amenities.
• SECURITY CLEARANCE - This position has been designated as non-critical sensitive as defined in DOD 5200.2-R. The incumbent is required to possess or obtain and maintain, for the duration of employment, a Secret security clearance.
• EMERGENCY ESSENTIAL - The incumbent is required to perform the duties and requirements of the position in the event of a crisis until relieved by proper authority. Essential Position Agreement, DD Form 2365, must be completed prior to deployment.
• IMMUNIZATION SCREENING - This position requires immunization with the complete Anthrax vaccination series and subsequent annual boosters.
  
  

Qualifications

NOTE: All deployment tours are limited to a maximum length of 2 years total unless Mission changes require an extension; approval is required*

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 (Structural):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:

• 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 equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service which includes experience reviewing plans and designs regarding civil engineering; developing original designs for project completion while adhering to guidance and cost restrictions; acting as a water resources advisor; performing engineering studies; advising team engineers in all phases of design and review.

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-12).

Education

Only degrees from an accredited college or university recognized by the Department of Education are acceptable to meet positive education requirements or to substitute education for experience. For additional information, please go to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and U.S. Department of Education websites at - http://www.opm.gov/qualifications and http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html

Foreign education must be evaluated for U.S. equivalency in order to be considered for this position. Please submit your foreign education evaluation with your application.

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.
• Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
• Position may require employee to wear uniform and/or protective clothing.
• This is a Career Program (CP) 18 - Engineering position.
• Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
• If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document you do not have in electronic form, view the following link for information regarding an Alternate Application.
• Overseas unaccompanied tour. Family members (spouse, children) will not be allowed to accompany the selectee to the duty location of this position.
• TDY Contingency Operations deployment benefits: http://www.tad.usace.army.mil/Careers/Deployments/OIR/Deployment-Benefits/
• TDY Contingency Operations deployment locations and entitlements: http://www.tad.usace.army.mil/Portals/53/docs/USACE%20Overseas%20Contingency%20Operations%20TDY%20Locations%20and%20Entitlements.pdf
  
  

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