Summary About the Position:

This is a Civil Engineer (Structural) GS-0810-13 position for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Southwestern Division, Tulsa District, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dam Safety Production Center (DSPC). For additional information on USACE Tulsa District click Here

Duties

The incumbent, as a regional subject matter expert in the DSPC, serves as a structural engineering specialist performing engineering quality assurance (QA) evaluations for in-house and A-E products and services. Responsible for the technical design aspects of highly complex, state-of-the-art features of civil works projects presenting problems of significant depth and complexity. Develop design criteria and design procedures for highly specialized, complex structural features and reviews site plans, directives, and data to prepare complex structural designs and analyses. Prepare or direct preparation of structural features for which there are no Office of the Chief of Engineers (OCE) guide specifications. Perform Quality Assurance and Agency Technical reviews of design, plans, specifications and design analyses prepared by others for sufficiency and practicability and compliance with design requirements and established policies. Draft Design Documents or other reports covering structural design for civil works projects with full justification of all data compiled in connection with the reports. Coordinate structural design with other organizational segments, conferring on survey and soil boring data, extent of damages to existing structures which must be redesigned, and special provisions to be included in contract specifications.

Requirements

Conditions of employment Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation. This position requires a Selective Placement Factor of a current, active and valid Professional Engineer or Registered Architect credentials in a state, the District of Columbia, or a territory of the United States. Must provide copy.

Qualifications Who May Apply:

Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

Specialized Experience:

One year of specialized experience which includes: 1) Performing quality assurance reviews on structural engineering designs, plans, and/or specifications for civil works projects; AND 2) Developing design criteria or procedures for structural features of engineering projects; AND 3) Coordinating with internal or external stakeholders to resolve technical engineering problems. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).

Note: 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.

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).

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

Education Basic Requirement for Civil Engineer:

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.

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.

Additional information

Salary range reflects the lowest and highest pay across all duty locations to include Special Salary Rate Tables 0753, 0754 and 0755 for certain locations; actual pay depends on the duty location of the selectee. 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.