Civil Engineer - Direct Hire Authority

Position located in Natural Resources Stewardship and Science, responsible for mining engineering assistance to park/regional staff

This is a term position (more than 1 year) with an initial appointment to last 13 months, may be extended up to a total of 10-years. Term positions do not convey permanent status in the Federal service

Open to the first 75 applicants or until 05/06/2024 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration

The major duties of the Civil Engineer position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Engineering Analysis: Performs engineering analyses to include performing and coordinating technical planning activities; data collection (including validation and management); modeling and data analyses; analyses of site location and/or conditions; risk estimation and analyses; or analyses of instrumentation data. Makes engineering recommendations and/or decisions based on engineering analysis.

• Geotechnical: Work primarily involves analysis for seepage, static, and dynamic stability for issue evaluations, design, construction, operation, and rehabilitation for aboveground and underground structures or facilities; analysis of structure foundations, stability analysis for soil, rock, manmade, and natural slopes; determining adequacy of sampling and testing for field investigations and changes needed based on field conditions; determining soil and rock engineering properties based on field and laboratory testing; making foundation treatment and improvement.

• Compliance: Provides engineering support in connection with regulatory program oversight, policy and rulemaking efforts, review of regulatory compliance issues, and resolution of engineering related issues as they are encountered.

• Database Operation: Develops, modifies, and utilizes relational databases to maintain engineering data for conducting operational and planning analyses. Oversees development and operation of engineering data collection systems directly and/or in coordination with other government agencies and non-federal sources. Ensures necessary data is collected, transmitted, downloaded, decoded, and received for its intended purpose.

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-05/06/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement.

Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount qualified specialized experience.

To qualify for the Civil Engineer GS-12 position, you must meet one of the following Basic Requirements in order to be eligible for this position:

Civil Engineering Series, 0810: This position has a positive education requirement which requires that you have a degree in engineering:

• (A) 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 -

• (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:

• 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, 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 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.

• 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 curriculum are not all-inclusive.)

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To qualify for the Civil Engineer position at the GS-12 grade level, you must meet all the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement:

EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience must include all of: (1) Technical expertise with onsite construction processes related to mining, tunneling, and abandoned mineral land reclamation. (2) Prepare schedules, priority lists, and milestones for abandoned mineral lands and mining-related projects. (3) Expertise with abandoned mineral land closure projects and mining-related projects, including structural engineering, civil engineering, cultural and natural compliance, and permitting. (4) Proficiency in the use of commercially available or agency computer applications needed for project funding and management, execution of work, and close-out. (5) Expertise in collaborating in an interdisciplinary team.

You must include hours per week worked.

You must include months, years and hours per week worked to receive credit for your work and/or volunteer experience. One year of specialized experience is equivalent to 12 months at 40 hours per week. Part-time hours are prorated. You will not receive any credit for experience that does not indicate exact hours per week or is listed as "varies". Experience listed as full-time will be credited at 40 hours per week.

Volunteer Experience: 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.