Civil Engineer (Hydraulic)

US Federal Emergency Management Agency; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

US Federal Emergency Management Agency seeks a candidate with experience administering mitigation programs for earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, familiar with the NFIP and benefit-cost analysis tools. Applicants must meet basic education and minimum qualification requirements and upload transcripts at time of application.

Qualified applicants must meet the education/experience standards, including engineering credentials and professional registration (EI/EIT or PE), and be able to apply

Qualifications

• Applicants must meet Basic Education and Minimum Qualification requirements.
• Transcript upload at time of application is required.
• Combination of education and experience criteria apply for professional registration.

Responsibilities

• Apply established building code requirements to projects.
• Identify natural flood hazards and mitigation actions to reduce risk.
• Communicate technical information to diverse audiences and stakeholders.

Skills

Hazard mitigation programs

NFIP familiarity

Benefit-cost tools

Technical communication

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Calculus and engineering science courses

EI/EIT/PE registration options

FE examination

Job description

The ideal candidate for this position will have experience in administering various programs for mitigation hazards, including earthquake, flood and tornado, is familiar with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and has utilized benefit-cost analyst tools.

Applicants must meet the Basic Education and Minimum Qualification requirements listed below in order to be found qualified for the position. (Please upload transcript at time of application)

A. Degree:

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

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-12 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 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:

• Applying established building code requirements to review or design projects; and
• Applying theories, principals, practices and/or techniques of natural flood hazard risk identification, risk communication strategies, and/or mitigation actions to reduce risk; and
• Communicating technical information to a variety of audiences and stakeholders