Summary About the Position: Serves as Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Engineer, providing authoritative technical guidance, design oversight, and team leadership for complex engineering projects while advising agency leadership on critical technical matters. This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. Responsibilities Serve as the District's Subject Matter Expert (SME) Act as the principal technical advisor to the Division Chief and District leadership, providing authoritative decisions, technical judgment, and recommendations on highly complex projects and policy deviations. Conduct Site Investigations and Reconnaissance: Personally evaluate project site conditions, perform field investigations of design or construction issues, and deliver technical reports containing recommendations for action. Develop Engineering Designs and Layouts: Prepare preliminary and final designs, technical analyses, layouts, and computations to support the production of contract drawings and planning documents. Provide Technical Guidance to Project Teams: Deliver expert engineering input, guidance, and coordination to Project Delivery Teams (PDTs), Communities of Practice (CoPs), Architect-Engineer (A-E) consultants, and non-federal sponsors. Lead and Direct Engineering Teams: Provide technical leadership and direction to District planning/design teams and regional technical teams, ensuring alignment with the latest technology and agency policies. Manage and Communicate Project Workloads: Articulate project assignments, milestones, deadlines, and complex technical or policy issues to team members and leadership. Coach and Mentor Team Members: Guide lower-level engineers and technicians on problem-solving methods, practices, and procedures, while identifying individual and team training needs. Represent the District Externally: Serve as the District's representative in meetings with regional, national, and external entities, including construction contractors, local government officials, and non-federal sponsors. Perform Technical and Quality Reviews: Conduct Technical Reviews (TRs) of work performed by others and serve on Design Quality Control (DQC) and Agency Technical Review Teams to ensure compliance with USACE policies. Oversight of Architect-Engineer (A-E) Submittals: Review and check A-E contract drawings, specifications, reports, and quantity estimates to ensure full conformance with contract requirements and District standards. Requirements Conditions of Employment 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. 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. Basic Requirement for Engineer: Civil Engineer (0810), Mechanical Engineer (0830), Electrical Engineer (0850): NOTE: You must provide a copy of your transcript. 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 one of the basic requirements above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience for the Civil Engineer 0810 , Mechanical Engineer 0830 and Electrical Engineer 0850 GS-13: One year of specialized experience demonstrating technical leadership and advisory services to multidisciplinary teams, performing complex engineering designs, calculations, and modeling associated with the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of civil works, commercial, 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) 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 Career Field position. 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/ 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. If you are a current federal employee duty located 50 miles or more outside of the area for this recruitment, you "may" be considered for a relocation incentive. This incentive option is not applicable to new to federal government employees. If you are a current federal employee who has received (and can provide a copy) of a job offer outside of federal service and plan to separate from federal service, you "may" be considered for a retention incentive. This incentive option is not applicable to new to federal government employees. If you are new to federal service and meet the criteria, you "may" be considered for a recruitment incentive. This incentive option is not applicable to current federal
