Dam Safety Program Manager, Civil Engineer, GS-0810-13 (07127)

Announcement Type
TARP - Direct-Hire Authority (DHA)
Position Type
Permanent
USACE Organization
Southwestern Division (SWD) - Tulsa District
Locations (City, State)
Tulsa, OK
Position Overview/Duties
This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD, Section 9905 to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.
This is Dam Safety Program Manager, GS-0810-13 with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District.
Key Duties
Serves as the District's Dam Safety Program Manager, as a recognized technical expert, team leader and Corps of Engineers technical staff specialist in all matters relating to dam safety and design of embankments and foundations for civil works structures.
Directs the design of features for major rehabilitation, dam safety assurance, and routine maintenance and repair of earth dams, levees, and appurtenant structures for the District.
Reviews the work accomplished by others to provide verifications of the design assumptions, the methods, procedures and material used in the analysis.
Provides expert technical assistance for establishment of Dam Safety programs for Federal, State, Municipal and private owners of dams and levees; provides technical evaluation of the stability, structural integrity, and the capability of a structure to withstand the design conditions.
Serves as special technical consultant to the District Dam Safety Committee and makes recommendations on all aspects of the dam safety assurance program.
Functions as team leader for the Emergency Response Team with responsibility for implementing, coordinating and reporting on reaction to emergency conditions to District dam projects.
Other Conditions And Requirements
Basic Education Requirement for Civil Engineer:
Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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
Education
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:

• Professional registration or licensure — Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, 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.
• Written Test — Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Specialized Experience
One year of specialized experience which includes:

• Performing Geotechnical and Structural Analyses of dams/levees, or similar large water-retaining structures to review designs or to recommend solutions for construction or rehabilitation projects;
• Conducting Safety Inspections to evaluate the stability and structural integrity of dam and levee projects;
• Evaluating technical reports and Emergency Action Plans to recommend changes and/or improvements.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).
Minimum Education Requirement
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/civil-engineering-series-0810/

• NOTE: You MUST provide a copy of your transcripts with your application package or you will be rated ineligible.\*\*\*

Other Requirements

• Applications must be submitted after 12:01 AM (EST) of the posted Job Posting Open Date and before 11:45 PM (EST) of the posted Job Posting Close Date to receive consideration.
• All positions require the applicant to be a citizen of the United States.
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, are required to register for Selective Service prior to appointment.
• A trial or probationary period may be required.
• A one-year Supervisory Probationary period may be required.
• Direct deposit of pay is required.
• This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 25% of the time.
• This position is eligible for situational teleworking.
• Obtain and maintain a valid state driver’s license.
• This position is covered by a Special Salary Rate (SSR) for the 0755 pay scale.
• This job includes duties and responsibilities which fall within the scope of DOD Directive 5500.7-R, 30 AUG 93, and C.F.R. 2635. The incumbent of this position is therefore required to file a confidential financial disclosure report.
• Professional Engineering Registration is required.

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Qualifications - Candidates will be evaluated in accordance with OPM General Schedule (GS) Qualification Standards or Federal Wage System (FWS) Qualifications and Job Elements
GS Standards: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/
Reasonable Accommodation
Reasonable accommodation is available to qualified employees with disabilities. You can request a reasonable accommodation at any time during the application process, hiring process or while on the job. Requests are evaluated on a case-by-case basis.