Interdisciplinary @ U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Job 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 Interdisciplinary position is located in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, Engineering and Construction Division, Technical Services Branch, Architect-Engineer Management Section located in Galveston, TX.

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 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.

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. Landscape Architect 0807 Series Basic Requirement: Degree: Landscape Architecture or Landscape Design. Note: Successful completion of a 5-year program of study of at least 160 semester hours leading to a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture in an accredited college or university is qualifying for GS-7. OR Combination of education and experience -- for each year short of graduation, the applicant must have had 1 year of experience under professional leadership and guidance of such character and diversity as to be a satisfactory substitute for the required education.

This experience must have included original landscape design. 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 which includes this Specialized Experience: One year of specialized:

• 1) Experience with planning and carrying out the management and execution of an Architect-Engineering contract program.; AND
• 2) Experience with developing new approaches for use of other engineering specialists in solving a variety of engineering problems; AND
• 3) Experience reviewing documentation necessary to execute modifications to fixed price contracts.

(NOTE: This experience MUST be well documented on your resume or application package.) 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.

Major Duties

• Serve as the Architect-Engineer Coordinator technically responsible as the engineering expert for all Architect-Engineer contract matters, administering a program and serving as focal point of all activities in the subject field.
• Act as top consultant and advisor to the senior Engineers and others on Architect-Engineer and Professional Service contract problems often of considerable depth and complexity.
• Originate, develop and implement basic concepts and engineering approaches in an Architect-Engineer contract matters.
• Perform close technical/engineering appraisals of all documents, including pre and post business clearance memoranda to assure engineering sufficiency, consistency and compliance with prevailing policies.
• Closely review Government estimates for conformance to policy regulations.
• Responsible for maintaining active qualification data on Architect-Engineer firms, interviewing representatives and securing current qualification data on a variety of basic information.
• Supervise the analysis and classification of firms according to demonstrated specialties, personally performing such work for major and diversified firms.
• Prepare standard operating procedures (SOPs) and special orders on Architect-Engineer contract work.
• Interpret policies, regulations, and engineering criteria as they relate to Architect-Engineer contracting and provide such information to the staff.