Civil Engineer; Hydraulics), GS

Announcement Type

TARP - Direct-Hire Authority (DHA)

Permanent

Northwestern Division (NWD) - Omaha District

Omaha, NE

Serves as a hydraulic engineer in the Hydraulic Section, Hydrologic Engineering Branch, Engineering Division, Omaha District. As a hydraulic engineer, serves as a specialist on complex hydraulic engineering subjects, design matters, and hydraulic problems in support of the Corps mission.

• Completes hydraulic analysis in support of low flow requirements, water rights, water supply requirements, water quality operations, navigation, and hydropower.
• Development and adjustment of rating curves, area capacity tables, gate regulation curves, and other engineering data for proper regulation of the projects.
• Application of complex watershed and reservoir routing hydraulic models.
• Development and hydraulic design of water resource projects including reservoirs, spillways, outlet works, flood control channels, levees, and interior drainage facilities.
• Directs the work of lower graded engineers and technicians as required to accomplish duties.
• Participates in risk assessments for dams and levees within the Omaha District.

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. Position covered by PWR SSR (Special Salary Rate).

• 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.

• 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), 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) 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.
  • 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 education requirement above. The courses must be fully acceptable…