Interdisciplinary (Engineer/Architect)

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. This is an Interdisciplinary (Engineer/Architect), GS-08XX-11/12 position with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Little Rock District. This position is located in Little Rock, AR. About the Position: For additional information on USACE Little Rock District click Here

Duties

• •Serves as the primary technical point of contact, and may be assigned as a Contracting Office's Representative to ensure contractors comply with contract drawings, engineering specifications, design parameters, and safety standards.
• •Performs comprehensive Biddability, Constructability, Operability, and Environmental reviews on design plans, specifications, and project drawings prior to solicitation to identify design deficiencies and minimize future contract modifications.
• •Administers contracts (within authority) by evaluating contractor progress, review and approve technical shop drawings/submittals, assessing progress payment requests, and preparing independent government cost estimates (IGCE) for modifications.
• •Analyzes complex or unforeseen field conditions, interpret engineering principles, and provide technical guidance to resolve critical construction and design problems on-site.
• •Collaborates with diverse stakeholders, including project managers, designers, contractors, and local authorities, to ensure project milestones are successfully achieved.
• •Prepares documentation and provides recommendations to the Administrative Contracting Officer or Contracting Officer for changes to the project.
• •Determines scope of work, calculates cost estimates and negotiates costs for the contract changes with the contractor.
• •Works with and may provide guidance to engineers, inspectors, and technicians who are providing quality assurance oversight of contracts.

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. Specialized Experience: For GS-11: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1. assisting with contract administration or inspection duties by reviewing routine contractor shop drawings; 2. performing on-site quality assurance inspections to verify compliance with contract plans and specifications; 3. participating in troubleshooting standard construction or design issues. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09). OR Education: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Engineering or Engineering Management. OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages. For GS-12: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1. performing construction management oversight to ensure contractor compliance; 2. evaluating contractor progress and cost estimates for contract modifications; and 3. advising on quality assurance oversight procedures, interpretation of plans and specifications. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For the GS-12 level, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Education

Basic Requirements (for Engineers): 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. 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)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.