Civil Engineer

US Federal Emergency Management Agency; Bothell (WA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in Region 10 seeks an engineer for the Mitigation Division, Risk Analysis Branch. The ideal candidate will bring experience with Risk MAP, NFIP, and hydrology/hydraulic engineering.

Applicants must meet basic education and minimum qualification requirements, including an ABET-accredited engineering degree and professional registration or equivalent. The role involves administering flood-hazard programs, project management, and clear technical

Qualifications

• ABET-accredited engineering degree or equivalent as required by basic standards.
• Professional registration (EI/EIT) or PE by a State, or FE exam as alternative.
• Combination of education and experience meeting the basic and specialized requirements.

Responsibilities

• Administer programs for identifying/updating/mitigating flood hazard areas.
• Manage projects by identifying work assignments, timelines, or milestones.
• Communicate technical information such as hydrology, hydraulics, data collection, or surveying practices.

Skills

Hydrology

Hydraulic engineering

Project management

Technical communication

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Job description

This position serves in FEMA Region 10's Mitigation Division, Risk Analysis Branch. The ideal candidate for this position has experience with Risk MAP and National Flood Insurance Programs and in hydrology and hydraulic engineering.

Applicants must meet the Basic Education and Minimum Qualification requirements listed below in order to be found qualified for the position.

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.

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)1, 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)2 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.
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.
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)

AND in addition to meeting the basic education requirements above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:

Current Federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the Federal service. The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

To qualify for this position at the GS-13 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following:

1. Administering programs for identifying/updating/mitigating flood hazard areas; AND,
2. Managing projects by identifying work assignments, determining timelines, or setting goals/milestones/accomplishment measures; AND,
3. Communicating technical information such as hydrology, hydraulics, topographic data collection, or surveying practices.

Qualifications are based on your ability to demonstrate in your resume that you possess one year of the specialized experience for this announcement at a comparable scope and responsibility.

• Job title, name of employer, start and end dates of each period of employment, detailed description of duties performed, accomplishments, and related skills, hours worked per week, grade level, occupational series and dates in which you held each grade level.

• Are you a current or former FEMA Reservist/DAE employee? To accurately credit your experience from intermittent positions and Reservist Deployments, you must list the dates (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY) of deployments that are relevant to your qualifying experience, along with the job title and specific duties you were responsible for during each deployment.

• Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information. Failure to provide the above information in your resume may result in your application being found "not qualified."

• 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 provides valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

• For additional information on crediting experience and/or education, please reference the OPM General Schedule Qualification Standards.