Civil Engineer (Materials)

Civil Engineer (Materials)

• Open & closing dates

12/11/2024 to 12/27/2024

• Salary

$103,507 - $122,137 per year

• Pay scale & grade

GS 11

• Location

2 vacancies in the following location:

Lakewood, CO

Duties

The full performance duties of this position are:

• Performs civil engineering materials assignments associated with technical planning activities, data collection, data analysis, analysis of site conditions, or analysis of instrumentation data in the areas of corrosion, protective coatings, cathodic protection, and/or hazardous materials. Conducts scientific data analysis using machine learning with Python or other programming languages.
• Provides engineering recommendations based on engineering analysis for conventional or routine assignments or for portions of more complex engineering projects.
• Work primarily involves the application of the principles of corrosion mitigation on civil engineering structures, such as Reclamation's inventory of concrete dams, powerplants, pumping plants, canals, pipelines, and other buildings and associated hydraulic structures. Work may involve participating in scientific and applied engineering research, including field and laboratory investigations, in support of Reclamation's mission. Staff in the hazardous materials sub-discipline help Reclamation protect workers and the environment by ensuring compliance with applicable environmental regulations and standards.
• Participates in civil engineering facility inspections which include conducting corrosion and protective coatings condition assessments, hazardous materials surveys on Reclamation's facilities and reservoirs, identifying corrosion mitigation system deficiencies relative to design criteria and applicable standards, documenting results, calculating preliminary estimates for repairs, identifying future maintenance or repair needs for the asset, and project management planning.
• Completes civil engineering materials and corrosion engineering designs for protective coatings and/or cathodic protection systems to include: 1) participating in engineering studies or evaluations as the corrosion mitigation team member; 2) preparing, reviewing, or checking routine engineering designs for corrosion mitigation systems and/or materials selection for civil infrastructure; or 3) drafting design criteria and standard operating procedures.
• This position may perform workload in either the corrosion and/or hazardous materials sub-disciplines. This includes close collaboration with geotechnical, mechanical, and water conveyance engineering design groups for the design, specification, construction support, inspection.
• Drafts written technical documentation such as technical memorandums, inspection reports, peer-reviewed research publications, quantity estimate worksheets, specifications, design drawings, and construction submittal responses.
• Makes oral presentations of technical work to internal team members and Reclamation clients and collaborators.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

You must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. National.
You must be suitable for federal employment, determined by a background investigation.
You must submit a resume and supporting documentation (see Required Documents).
You must submit eligibility documents for veterans consideration (see Required Documents).
You must meet any minimum education and/or experience requirements (see Qualifications).
You must submit transcript(s) to verify education requirements (see Qualifications/Education).
Applicants initially appointed to a term position must serve a trial period.

Qualifications

To qualify for the Civil Engineer GS-0810-11, you must meet BOTH the Basic Qualification Requirement and the Additional Requirements. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience. A copy of your unofficial transcripts must be provided with your application.

BASIC QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT A. 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.
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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.
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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, and Puerto Rico.
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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 the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
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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 bachelor's 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.)
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ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT
In addition to meeting the basic education requirement, you must also meet one of the following for the GS-0810-11 grade level. Specialized experience is obtained after the requirements noted under 'Basic Qualifications Requirements' are met.

GS-11:
A. Specialized Experience: To qualify, applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-09 level in the Federal Government. To meet specialized experience, your resume must describe experience that demonstrates the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities as follows: project management, project scheduling and budgeting, or proposal/funding request writing, and client communication in a related field such as materials science and engineering, chemical, mechanical, metallurgical, or electrical engineering.
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B. Education: 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or equivalent doctoral degree.
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C. Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of high-level education (noted in B) and specialized experience (noted in A) may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.

You must meet all Eligibility and Qualification requirements, including time-in-grade restrictions and any selective placement factors if applicable, by 12/27/2024.