Project Manager, Interdisciplinary, GS

USACE Organization Northwestern Division (NWD) - Seattle District

Announcement Type TARP - Direct-Hire Authority (DHA)

Position Type Permanent

Locations (City, State) Seattle, WA

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the Department of Defense (DoD), Section 9905 to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

Serves as a Program/Project Manager responsible for managing the efficient and effective coordination and execution of the planning, scoping, design, construction, and direction of assigned military and IIS programs and projects.

As the Program/Project team leader, implements corporate decisions, guidance, laws, regulations, and policy in the development of the project and intermediate products in support of the project.

Negotiates and integrates all District functions (i.e., planning, design, cost engineering, construction, real estate, contracting, etc.) in support of an assigned project into a comprehensive management plan.

Coordinates the planning, design, cost engineering, construction, and environmental considerations, etc. for design and construction projects of considerable scope and complexity. Performs other duties as assigned.

• Degree: community planning; or related field such as urban affairs, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, sociology, geography, economics, political science, or public administration that includes at least 12 semester hours in the planning process, socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, urban and regional economic analysis, and development finance.
  
  Note:
  
  Applicants with degrees in related fields, such as those listed above, who do not have the 12 semester hours of specified coursework must have had at least 1 year of work experience in community planning acquired under the supervision and guidance of a community planner.
• Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in one of the above disciplines, or a combination of related courses totaling at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the above disciplines of which at least 12 semester hours were in the planning process, and socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

• Degree:
  Bachelor's degree (or higher) in landscape architecture or landscape design. OR
• Combination of
  
  Education and Experience:
  
  For each year short of graduation, the applicant must have had one year of experience under professional leadership and guidance of such character and diversity as to be a satisfactory substitute for the required education. This experience must have included original landscape design.

• Degree:
  Bachelor's degree (or higher) in architecture or in a related field that included 60 semester hours of coursework in architecture or related disciplines of which at least 30 semester hours were in architectural design, and 6 semester hours were in each of the following: structural technology, properties of materials and methods of construction, and environmental control systems. OR
• Combination of
  
  Education and Experience:
  
  College-level education, training, and or technical experience that furnishes a thorough knowledge of the arts and sciences underlying professional architecture, and 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 coursework in architectural engineering providing 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…