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Engineer or Architect (Interdisciplinary)

The US Army Corps of Engineers, New York District is hiring for an Engineer or Architect (GS-12) in Troy, NY with a background in one of the following;
  • General Engineering; Architecture; Civil Engineering; Environmental Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Electrical Engineering

The salary range for this role is $84,928 to $110,406 at the GS 12 level. Relocation expenses may be authorized. There is business travel up to 20% annually. Hybrid work potential. No security clearance required.

*This job is a civilian position and does not require military service (including commission and enlistment).

Interested Applicants must submit resumes/application packages with resume and transcripts to CENAN-HR-VFAIR3@USACE.ARMY.MIL with subject Interdisciplinary Architect/Engineer GS 12.


Duties
  • Develop and or review engineering plans and specifications for a wide range of navigational, civil works, and facilities projects.
  • Determine the methods of dredging to be used, quantities of material to be removed, and estimates the costs of improvements.
  • Work onboard vessels and dredges assigned to the Hudson River and various tributaries.
  • Take water and dredged material samples from navigation projects, conducts chemical and biological testing, and compare results to Local, State, and Federal standards.
  • Prepare plans and specifications for river and harbor projects to be performed by contract or Government plant and hired labor.
  • Prepare Government estimate of cost that serve as the New York District estimate for determining the basis of award for contracts.
  • Establish the necessity for work and prepares both current and future budgets, programs, and schedules.
  • Perform project management and contracting officer representative (COR) functions such as construction, repair, maintenance, navigation dredging, and Troy lock and dam.
  • Evaluate contractor?s performance and possible discrepancies between contract drawings and specifications.
  • Serve as principal technical coordinator for river, harbor and coastal work assigned.

Specialized Experience GS-12:
One year of specialized experience which includes:
  1. Assisting with project designs and/or plans;
  2. Reviewing construction contracts;
  3. Assisting to evaluate contractors' performance and/or progress.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).

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.

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.

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described above and 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.

Basic Requirement for Architect:
A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in architecture or in a related field that included 60 semester hours of course work in architecture or related disciplines of which at least (1) 30 semester hours were in architectural design, and (2) 6 semester hours were in each of the following: structural technology, properties of materials and methods of construction, and environmental control systems.
OR
B. Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the arts and sciences underlying professional architecture, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the architectural principles, methods, and techniques and their applications to the design and construction or improvement of buildings. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by at least one of the following: (1) Related Curriculum - Degree in architectural engineering provided the completed course work in architectural engineering provided knowledge, skills, and abilities substantially equivalent to those provided in the courses specified in statement A above, or (2) Experience: 1 year of experience in an architect's office or in architectural work for each year short of graduation from a program of study in architecture. In the absence of any college courses, 5 years of such experience is required. This experience must have demonstrated that you have acquired a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles and theories of professional architecture.

Basic Requirement for Engineer (General, Civil, Environmental, Electrical, Mechanical):
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.

Interested Applicants must submit resumes/application packages with resume and transcripts to CENAN-HR-VFAIR3@USACE.ARMY.MIL with subject Interdisciplinary Architect/Engineer GS 12.