Civil Engineer

In order to qualify, you must meet BOTH the Basic and Minimum Qualification requirements described below. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience. If qualifying based on education, a copy of your unofficial transcripts must be provided with your application.

BASIC QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: Successfully completed a full 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in Engineering in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).
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Successfully completed a full 4-year course of study leading to a Bachelor's or higher degree in Engineering that included differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five (5) of the following seven (7) 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
Completed 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences, and that included the courses specified in B above. These courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
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Successfully completed a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field such as engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology AND have at least one year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. This must include 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.
OR
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, and Puerto Rico.
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Currently registered as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensed as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. This registration must have been obtained by written test OR be in general engineering or a directly related engineering field and was gained by State grandfather or eminence provisions.

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

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: To be considered minimally qualified for this position, you must demonstrate that you have the required specialized experience and/or education for the respective grade level in which you are applying:

Specialized Experience for GS-11: Applicants must have one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector creating and maintaining contact and collaborative working relationships and experience working with two (2) of the following: 1) Inspecting earthen or concrete dams for preserving the integrity of the structures; 2) Conducting dam failure consequences assessments to identify populations at risk or emergency management procedures; 3) Interpreting dam instrumentation data to ensure readings are within established performance parameters; 4) Developing or implementing dam safety program procedures to prevent failures and project lives, property, and the environment; 5) Reading flood inundation maps to determine the timing and magnitude of high-water events; 6) Performing surface water or open channel water modeling to analyze flow patterns, water levels or flood risk assessments; 7) Developing or implementing Emergency Management and Continuity of Operations plans; 8) Developing or overseeing Emergency Management and/or response exercises; 9) Designing large water storage/delivery Civil Structures such as dams, levees, canals, pipelines, etc; and 10) Utilizing geospatial data management techniques to collect, organize, manipulate, analyze, and visualize spatial data effectively for decision-making processes.
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Education: Successful completion of at least 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. This education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of this position. You must include transcripts.
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Combination: Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. To combine education and experience, first take the total number of months of full-time qualifying experience and divide by 12 months to get a percentage of the required experience above. Then determine your education as a percentage of the education substitution stated above. When adding the two percentages, the total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. Only graduate education in excess of two (2) years (36 semester hours) will be used to qualify at the GS-11 grade level. You must include transcripts.

Specialized Experience for GS-12: Applicants must have one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector creating and maintaining contact and collaborative working relationships and experience working with three (3) of the following: 1) Inspecting earthen or concrete dams for preserving the integrity of the structures; 2) Conducting dam failure consequences assessments to identify populations at risk or emergency management procedures; 3) Interpreting dam instrumentation data to ensure readings are within established performance parameters; 4) Developing or implementing dam safety program procedures to prevent failures and project lives, property, and the environment; 5) Reading flood inundation maps to determine the timing and magnitude of high-water events; 6) Performing surface water or open channel water modeling to analyze flow patterns, water levels or flood risk assessments; 7) Developing or implementing Emergency Management and Continuity of Operations plans; 8) Developing or overseeing Emergency Management and/or response exercises; 9) Designing large water storage/delivery Civil Structures such as dams, levees, canals, pipelines, etc; and 10) Utilizing geospatial data management techniques to collect, organize, manipulate, analyze, and visualize spatial data effectively for decision-making processes.

Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).

You must include months, years and hours per week worked to receive credit for your work and/or volunteer experience. One year of specialized experience is equivalent to 12 months at 40 hours per week. Part-time hours are prorated. You will not receive any credit for experience that does not indicate exact hours per week or is listed as "varies".

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