Summary

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

About the Position: This position functions as a Design Engineer and/or Lead Engineer, with the responsibility for developing preliminary and final engineering designs, technical analyses, design plans, technical specifications, layouts, computations and coordinating with other design disciplines.

Duties

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• In this position, you will be responsible for developing preliminary and final engineering designs, technical analyses, design plans, technical specifications, layouts, computations and coordinating with other design disciplines.
• The incumbent also has continuing responsibility through the construction stages of the project.
• In this position you may serve as a Lead Engineer, which functions as the Civil Section's primary point of contact for project specific information and design team coordination on assigned projects.
• The position requires the use of Computer-aided Design (CAD) and general office computer software as part of the design and document production process.
• The incumbent shall have a working knowledge of civil design projects in the Northeastern portion of the United States.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Incumbent must be able to obtain and maintain a valid state drivers license within 30 days of appointment.
• This position requires the incumbent be able to successfully complete a National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI) background investigation. A background investigation and credit check are required.
• This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 10% of the time.
• FOR THE GS-12 POSITION ONLY: A Selective Placement Factor of a valid Professional Engineer (PE) license required. You must upload a copy of your valid PE License with your application package to be considered for the GS-12 level position.

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 Education Requirements for 0810 Series:

A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must:(1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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)1, 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)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and 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 the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.

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 bachelor's 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:

For the GS-11 Position: Specialized Experience:One year of specialized experience which includes meeting two of the following: 1) Apply professional engineering concepts associated with routine and non-routine technical problems with civil/site project designs; 2) Conduct field inspections of site features on proposed design sites or for ongoing construction projects to define site specific problems and/or recommend solutions; 3) Develop engineering plans, analysis, specifications, quantity estimates, designs and/or layouts for a variety of Civil Engineering projects with supervision from senior staff.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).

For the GS-12 Position: Specialized Experience:One year of specialized experience which includes meeting three of the following: 1) Apply professional engineering concepts associated with routine and non-routine technical problems with civil/site project designs and communicate concepts clearly to interdisciplinary audiences; 2) Conduct field inspections of site features on proposed design sites or for ongoing construction projects to define site specific problems and/or recommend solutions. Following inspections, develop appropriate scope and schedule inputs for associated design efforts; 3) Develop engineering plans, analysis, specifications, quantity estimates, designs and/or layouts for a variety of Civil Engineering projects; 4) review and check contract drawings, quantity estimates, and technical provisions of the specifications performed by others for conformance with good engineering practice, design requirements and/or drawing standards.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).

SELECTIVE PLACEMENT FACTOR FOR THE GS-12 POSITION ONLY: A Selective Placement Factor of a valid Professional Engineer (PE) license required. You must upload a copy of your valid PE License with your application package to be considered for the GS-12 level position.

For the GS-12 position: Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the specialized qualification requirement using experience aloneno substitution of education for experience is permitted.

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.
• This position requires a 1 year probationary period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest.
• 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 an Engineers and Scientists (Resources and Construction) Career Program position aligned under the Construction, Analysis, Science, Infrastructure & Engineers (CASIE) Career Management Directorate.
• Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• 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.htm for more information.
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and an agency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest.
• Student Loan Repayment MAY be authorized.
• Advanced in Hire MAY be authorized.
• Relocation / Recruitment Incentive MAY be authorized.
• Advanced Leave Accrual MAY be authorized.
• Position(s) will be filled at the GS-11 or GS-12 grade level.
• This is a full-time permanent developmental position. Selectee will be required to complete 52 weeks before being promoted to the next higher grade level. This position has promotion potential to the higher-grade GS-12 when requirements have been completed and when recommended by management.

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