Civil Engineer (Structural)

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 the Civil Engineering (Structural), 0810 Series: 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.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience Required: GS-13: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes meeting all of the following: 1) Review structural designs, plans, specifications, and/or engineering documents for technical compliance; 2) Lead structural inspections for bridges, hydraulic steel structures, and/or other complex structures; and 3) develop structural recommendations, design criteria, and/or technical solutions for complex civil works or military projects.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12) or equivalent level. "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".

Selective Placement Factor: The duties of this position require the incumbent to possess and maintain license/registration as a Professional Engineer. This license/registration must be in good standing and issued by any one of the 50 states, or its territories: (Note: You are required to submit your up-to-date license (PE) license from any state or territory with your applicant package.)

Serves as a professional Civil Engineering Expert concerning the safety of bridges and hydraulic steel structures (both probable loss of life and non-loss of life structures).,The incumbent serves as a professional Civil Engineering Expert concerning the safety of bridges and hydraulic steel structures (both probable loss of life and non-loss of life structures).,Serves as the official spokesman concerning technical advisory and problem resolution services involving the development coordination of programs for the inspection of the District’s public and nonpublic bridges and hydraulic steel structures.,Functions as a structural engineering technical specialist in Design Branch, with the program management responsibilities for the District’s Bridge and Hydraulic Steel Structures (HSS) programs.,Responsible for insuring the District is in compliance with ER1110-2-111 (Periodic Safety Inspection and Continuing Evaluation of USACE Bridges) and ER 1110-28157 (Responsibility for Hydraulic Steel Structures).,As program manager, the incumbent schedules meetings, maintains bridge and HSS databases, and provides technical and administrative advice and assistance to District and Division leadership.,Interface with the District’s Operations Division, the Mississippi Valley Division and USACE HQ on funding, inspection, scheduling and training issues as required to maintain the District’s bridge and HSS inspection programs.,Provides structural engineering expertise and guidance to departmental chiefs and counterparts at the District, USACE, military installations, government agencies and private interests.,As a senior technical lead, reviews and approves structural design features of assigned civil works and military projects, or projects that fall under the Support for Others (SFO) program.