INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER/ARCHITECT.

US Army Corps of Engineers; City of Troy (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

US Army Corps of Engineers in Troy, NY seeks a professional engineer to coordinate surveys for dredging projects, prepare correspondence, and support interagency meetings.

The role includes preparing estimates, managing scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, and stakeholders, and developing designs and budget submissions for navigational and civil works projects. Applicants must meet education requirements and may undergo suitability checks, with occasional travel up to 25%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
• Professional registration (EI/EIT) or FE exam completion preferred.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% for TDY or business travel.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with other engineers to schedule surveys for dredging projects.
• Prepare correspondence and schedule interagency or public meetings as required.
• Prepare estimates and pricing data and discuss change orders, time extensions, and modifications with contractors.
• Manage the integration of scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communication, risk, procurement, and stakeholders for assigned programs/projects.
• Determine methods of dredging to be used, quantities of material to be removed, and estimates of improvements cost.
• Develop engineering designs, evaluations, and estimates for navigational, civil works, environmental, geotechnical, and facilities projects.
• Determine the estimated project dollars for budget submission for a given fiscal year.
• Prepare evaluations of shoal areas using the average end area method of calculation of volume for the shoals.

Skills

Project coordination

Scheduling

Estimate preparation

Engineering design

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

• Coordinates with other engineers to schedule surveys for use on dredging projects.
• Prepares correspondence and schedule interagency or public meetings as required.
• Prepares estimates and pricing data and discuss on change orders, time extensions, and modifications with the contractors.
• Responsible for managing the integration of project scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communication, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management for assigned programs/projects.
• Determines the methods of dredging to be used, quantities of material to be removed, and estimates the cost of improvements.
• Develops engineering designs, evaluations, and estimates for a wide range of navigational, civil works, environmental, geotechnical, and facilities projects.
• Determines the estimated project dollars for budget submission for a given fiscal year.
• Prepares evaluations of shoal areas by utilizing the average end area method of calculation of volume for the shoals.

Duties

• Coordinates with other engineers to schedule surveys for use on dredging projects.
• Prepares correspondence and schedule interagency or public meetings as required.
• Prepares estimates and pricing data and discuss on change orders, time extensions, and modifications with the contractors.
• Responsible for managing the integration of project scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communication, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management for assigned programs/projects.
• Determines the methods of dredging to be used, quantities of material to be removed, and estimates the cost of improvements.
• Develops engineering designs, evaluations, and estimates for a wide range of navigational, civil works, environmental, geotechnical, and facilities projects.
• Determines the estimated project dollars for budget submission for a given fiscal year.
• Prepares evaluations of shoal areas by utilizing the average end area method of calculation of volume for the shoals.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• The duties of this position require the incumbent to possess or obtain and maintain a valid state Driver's License in one of the 50 U.S. states or possessions to operate vehicles.
• 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 11.
• This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of up to 25% of the time.
• This position requires the employee to use personal protective equipment provided by the employer.
• This position requires a financial disclosure upon entry 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 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

Basic Requirement for Engineering Series General 0801/Civil 0810/Environmental 0819/Mechanical 0830/Electrical 0850:

• 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.
• 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 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, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward