Summary About the Position: This is a permanent, Interdisciplinary position with the Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Military Programs Directorate located in Washington, DC. This position requires a broad understanding of environmental engineering and scientific practices and principles, project management techniques, facilities engineering acquisition and contracting methods. Salary will be based on the geographic location of the individual(s) selected for this position. Responsibilities Collaborate across all U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Environmental Programs regarding the breadth and scope of Environmental Missions. Anticipate program needs and/or problems to provide advice and recommendations to management and stakeholders as well as guidance and direction to the USACE field operating activity with regard to the management of the environmental programs. Address Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste contamination and Unexploded Ordnance, Discarded Military Munitions, and Munitions Constituents to include Chemical Warfare Materiel. Execute investigations and remedial responses to address Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste contamination and Unexploded Ordnance, Discarded Military Munitions, and Munitions Constituents to include Chemical Warfare Materiel. Manage one or more facets of facilities engineering acquisition activities to include the planning, design, construction, and environmental management in support of environmental funded programs. Resolve conflicts between a wide variety of government organizations relating to regulatory and/or statutory provisions and other special environmental needs. Integrate various federal agency requirements to execute program requirements. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army) Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Basic Requirements: Requirement for General Engineer, Environmental Engineer, Civil Engineer or Chemical Engineer: A. 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. 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: 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. 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, or Puerto Rico. 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. 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 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. Requirement for Biologist: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0400/general-natural-resources-management-and-biological-sciences-series-0401/ Requirement for Physical Scientist: www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/general-physical-science-series-1301/ Requirement for Health Physicist: www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/health-physics-series-1306/ Requirement for Chemist: www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/chemistry-series-1320/ Requirement for Geologist: www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/geology-series-1350/ In addition to meeting one or more of the basic requirements above, you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1) applying project management methods/techniques to lead and/or execute environmental programs; 2) applying expert knowledge and understanding of the Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (HTRW) program objectives and Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) objectives as required by Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation & Liability Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Federal regulations, and DoD policy; 3) developing policies, regulations, and procedures in the execution of environmental projects/programs; and 4) anticipating major program needs and/or problems and provide recommendations regarding the management of the environmental programs and community of practice. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-13). You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Environmental Engineering Environmental Project and Program Management Organizational Awareness Technical Competence Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-13). Education ACCREDITATION: Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education (http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/). FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/. COMPLETION DATE DOCUMENTATION: In order to qualify in part for this position based on your education, you must have completed the education requirement by the closing date of this announcement. If you do not provide documentation that shows you met the education requirement by the closing date of this announcement, you will be rated as ineligible for this position. If your transcripts do not yet state "degree conferred" or date the degree/education was awarded, you must provide appropriate documentation to reflect when you met the education requirement. Appropriate documentation includes: 1) Transcripts indicating your completion/graduation date; (2) A letter signed by the institution's registrar indicating your completion/graduation date. NO SUBSTITUTION FOR EXPERIENCE: Some Federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, both the individual occupational (basic) requirement AND the specialized experience requirement must be met; no substitution of education for specialized experience is permitted. Additional Information Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration. You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. One year trial/probationary period may be required. Direct deposit of pay is required. Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees. If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet. This is a Construction, Engineering, Infrastructure Career Field position. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances is not authorized.
