Civil Engineer (Structural)

United States Army Installation Management Command (DOA); Fort Belvoir (VA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation expenses reimbursement

Job summary

United States Army Installation Management Command (DOA) seeks a Civil Engineer to provide expertise in civil and structural engineering, construction contract development, and engineering studies for real property facilities at Fort Belvoir, VA.

The role requires serving as COR on A/E and construction contracts, directing complex engineering projects, and ensuring compliance with safety and environmental standards.

Qualifications

• Specialized Experience: 1 year in civil/structural engineering.
• Prepare detailed structural design packages for construction.
• Review technical drawings and develop cost estimates for projects.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates programs to ensure compliance with environmental, energy use, safety, security and structural standards.
• Serves as COR on open-ended architectural-engineer (A/E) contracts and construction contracts.
• Directs, coordinates, and personally performs civil engineering duties for a wide variety of projects.
• Reviews, defines, and establishes parameters of work required, and reviews completed work for technical soundness.
• Prepares formal requests for A/E to develop a design and conduct a design study.
• Acts as POC and liaison to A/E personnel during on-site inspections.
• Chairs meetings concerning on-site inspections and design reviews.
• Serves as COR for one or more open ended contracts.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering (ABET-accredited) or higher

Combination of education and experience with PE/EI/EIT or FE exam

Job description

Summary

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

About the Position

Serves as a Civil Engineer responsible for providing engineering expertise in civil and structural engineering, construction contract development, and engineering studies for new construction, renovation and improvements of real property facilities.
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Overview

Accepting applications
Location
1 vacancy in the following location:
Fort Belvoir, VA
No matching locations found.
Work site options

Telework eligible: No

Remote job: No

Relocation expenses reimbursed: Yes—You may qualify for reimbursement of relocation expenses in accordance with agency policy.

$102,415 – $133,142 per year

GS 12

Promotion potential: None

Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job.

Full-time

Not required

Permanent

• 0810 Civil Engineering

Supervisory status: No

This job is in the Competitive Service

Represented by a union: No

Drug test: No

Secret

Position sensitivity and risk: Noncritical-Sensitive (NCS)/Moderate Risk. Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance. The type depends on the job.

• National security

Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests.

Announcement number: MCFT-27-13077317-DHA-R

Control number: 891202600

The public

U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.

Duties

• Evaluates programs and projects to assure compliance with all environmental, energy use, safety, security and structural standards.
• Serves as Contracting Officers Representative (COR) on assigned open-ended architectural-engineer (A/E) contracts and construction contracts.
• Serves as technical representative for negotiations, administration, and monitoring of engineering and construction contracts.
• As a project manager, the incumbent directs, controls, coordinates, and personally performs professional civil engineering duties required to complete a wide variety of engineering projects ranging from the simple to the complex.
• Reviews, defines, and establishes parameters of work required, and reviews completed work to ensure results are technically sound and valid.
• Prepares a formal request for an A/E to develop a design and conduct a design study.
• Serves as point of contact (POC) and in a liaison capacity to A/E personnel during their on-site inspection of the Fort Belvoir request.
• Responsible for chairing all meetings concerning on-site inspections, preliminary design reviews (attended by A/E, incumbent and user or requester representatives).
• Serves as COR for one or more open ended A/E contracts and construction contracts.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position requires the incumbent be able to obtain and maintain a determination of eligibility for a Secret security clearance or access for the duration of employment.
• Appointment to this position is subject to a one year probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in 5 CFR Part 315. While probationary the incumbent can be terminated with limited appeal rights.
• Incumbent is required to obtain Contracting Officers Representative (COR)certification within 120 days in the position.
• This position requires pre-employment financial disclosure and annually thereafter in accordance with DoD Directive 5500-7-R.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or 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 Requirement for Civil Engineer (Structural):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 & 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:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1. Performing engineering assessments on building, structural, and roadway repair projects, ensuring all designs met applicable safety codes and project specifications. 2. Preparing detailed structural design packages to support complex construction and repair efforts, improving project accuracy and reducing rework requirements. 3. Experience reviewing technical engineering drawings and specifications to verify compliance with regulatory standards, enabling timely approval of construction plans. 4. Experience developing comprehensive cost estimates for multi-phase construction and repair projects, enhancing budget forecasting and supporting informed decision-making.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11 ).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone–no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Education

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/

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.
• This position requires a 1 year probationary period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest.
• Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
• This position requires you to submit a Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE 278) or a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
• 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(n) Engineer and Scientist (Non-Construction) Career Field Career Program position aligned under the Construction, Analysis, Science, Infrastructure & Engineers (CASIE) Career Management Directorate.
• Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• When you perform a Civilian Permanent Change of Station (PCS) with the government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit https://www.dfas.mil/civilianemployees/civrelo/Civilian-Moving-Expenses-Tax-Deduction/ for more information.
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and an agency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest.
• Recruitment and relocation incentives may be authorized
• Student loan repayment may be authorized
• Salary negotiations for candidates new to Federal service may be authorized
• Credit for prior non-Federal experience and certain military service for leave accrual rates may be authorized.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Benefits

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.

Review our benefitsEligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

Required documents

The documents you are required to submit vary based on whether or not you are eligible for preference in federal employment. A complete description of preference categories and the associated required documents is in the Applicant Checklist for Public Announcements.

As described above, your complete application includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply.If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further.

1. Your resume:

• Your resume must be two pages or less and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement. Resumes exceeding two pages will be removed from consideration.
• For each relevant work experience, make sure you include the employer’s name, job title, start and end dates (include month and year), for qualifications purposes, the number of hours worked per week, and a brief description that show you can perform the tasks at the required level listed in the job announcement. If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete, and you may not receive consideration for this position.
• Use plain language. Avoid using acronyms and terms that are not easily understood. The hiring agency will not make assumptions about what’s in your resume.
• If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations, and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
• For additional information, to include formatting tips, see: What to include in your resume.

2. Other supporting documents:

• Cover Letter, optional
• Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable
• This position has an individual occupational requirement and/or allows for substitution of education for experience. If you meet this requirement based on education you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your application package or you will be rated ineligible. See: Transcripts and Licenses

NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person’s personal information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

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.

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

Agency contact information

Army Applicant Help Desk

https://portal.chra.army.mil/hr_public?id=app_inq

FT-W4VNAA US ARMY IMCOM-USAG FT BELVOIR

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Fort Belvoir, VA 22060

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Next steps

If you provided an email address, you will receive an email message acknowledging receipt of your application. Your application package will be used to determine your eligibility, qualifications, and quality ranking (as applicable) for this position. If you are determined to be ineligible or not qualified, your application will receive no further consideration.

Fair and transparent

The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
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