Interdisciplinary (Engineer/Architect).

US Army Corps of Engineers; Little Rock (AR); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

US Army Corps of Engineers is seeking a skilled engineer to serve as the primary technical contact on construction projects.

The role involves ensuring contractor compliance with drawings, specs, and safety standards, and performing design reviews to minimize future changes.

Qualifications

• Experience assisting with contract administration or inspection duties.
• On-site quality assurance inspections to verify compliance with contract plans and specifications.
• Troubleshooting standard construction or design issues.
• Education/Experience: degree in engineering or professional registration/licensure required; combination allows qualification.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact and ensure contractors comply with contract drawings, specifications, design parameters, and safety standards.
• Perform comprehensive reviews to identify design deficiencies and minimize future contract modifications.
• Administer contracts by evaluating progress, approving submittals, assessing progress payments, and preparing IGCE for modifications.
• Analyze complex field conditions and provide technical guidance to resolve construction/design problems on-site.
• Collaborate with project managers, designers, contractors, and local authorities to meet milestones.
• Prepare documentation and provide recommendations for contract changes to contracting officers.
• Determine scope of work, calculate cost estimates, and negotiate changes with contractors.
• Guide engineers, inspectors, and technicians providing QA oversight of contracts.

Skills

Contract administration

On-site inspections

Troubleshooting

Education

Engineering degree

Professional licensure/registration

Engineering licensure exams (FE/Engineer-in-Training)

Job description

Duties

• Serves as the primary technical point of contact, and may be assigned as a Contracting Office's Representative to ensure contractors comply with contract drawings, engineering specifications, design parameters, and safety standards.
• Performs comprehensive Biddability, Constructability, Operability, and Environmental reviews on design plans, specifications, and project drawings prior to solicitation to identify design deficiencies and minimize future contract modifications.
• Administers contracts (within authority) by evaluating contractor progress, review and approve technical shop drawings/submittals, assessing progress payment requests, and preparing independent government cost estimates (IGCE) for modifications.
• Analyzes complex or unforeseen field conditions, interpret engineering principles, and provide technical guidance to resolve critical construction and design problems on-site.
• Collaborates with diverse stakeholders, including project managers, designers, contractors, and local authorities, to ensure project milestones are successfully achieved.
• Prepares documentation and provides recommendations to the Administrative Contracting Officer or Contracting Officer for changes to the project.
• Determines scope of work, calculates cost estimates and negotiates costs for the contract changes with the contractor.
• Works with and may provide guidance to engineers, inspectors, and technicians who are providing quality assurance oversight of contracts.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 20% of the time.
• This position is a Contracting Officer's Representative and must obtain and maintain alt raining and certification as required.

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

Specialized Experience: For GS-11

• 1. assisting with contract administration or inspection duties by reviewing routine contractor shop drawings;
• 2. performing on-site quality assurance inspections to verify compliance with contract plans and specifications;
• 3. participating in troubleshooting standard construction or design issues.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).

OR

Education: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Engineering or Engineering Management.

OR

Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.

For GS-12

• 1. performing construction management oversight to ensure contractor compliance;
• 2. evaluating contractor progress and cost estimates for contract modifications;
• 3. advising on quality assurance oversight procedures, interpretation of plans and specifications.

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 the GS-12 level, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Education

Basic Requirements (for Engineers):

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.

OR

Education

• 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 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)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.
• 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.
• 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.)
• NOTE: You MUST provide a copy of your transcripts with your application package or you will be rated ineligible.***

Basic Requirement for (Architect):

A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in architecture or in a related field that included 60 semester hours of course work in architecture or related disciplines of which at least (1) 30 semester hours were in architectural design, and (2) 6 semester hours were in each of the following: structural technology, properties of materials and methods of construction, and environmental control systems.

OR

B. Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the arts and sciences underlying professional architecture, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the architectural principles, methods, and techniques and their applications to the design and construction or improvement of buildings. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by at least one of the following: (1) Related Curriculum - Degree in architectural engineering provided the completed course work in architectural engineering provided knowledge, skills, and abilities substantially equivalent to those provided in the courses specified in statement A above, or (2) Experience: 1 year of experience in an architect's office or in architectural work for each year short of graduation from a program of study in architecture. In the absence of any college courses, 5 years of such experience is required. This experience must have demonstrated that you have acquired a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles and theories of professional architecture.

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:

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.
• The use of illegal drugs by Federal employees, whether on duty or off duty, is contrary to the efficiency of the service. The legalization and/or decriminalization of marijuana by some states has no impact on Federal law. The use and/or possession of marijuana remains illegal for Federal employees.
• 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
• This is a(n) Engineers and Scientist (Resources and Construction) Career Program position aligned under the Construction, Analysis, Science, Infrastructure & Engineers (CASIE) Career Management Directorate.
• 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
• Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations.
• A Relocation Incentive of up to $7,500. may be authorized for current Federal employees.
• A Recruitment Incentive of up to $7,500. may be authorized for new civilian federal employee (initial appointment), or previous civilian federal employee with a break in service of at least 90 days.
• This position is authorized for a Special Salary Rate, Salary Range for SSR 0755 is: $99,954 - $127,443.
• Management may select at the GS-11 or the GS-12 grade level. Full performance is at the GS-12. Promotion is at discretion of management.

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.

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.

Eligibility 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.