Supervisory Engineer or Architect

• General Engineering, Architecture; Civil Engineering; Environmental Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Electrical Engineering

• Responsible for the supervision and administration of a number of complex projects estimated between $50 - $70 million dollars annually.
• Ensure essential information and documentation is disseminated in order to render appropriate management decisions affecting the Resident Office organization or projects assigned to the Resident Office.
• Evaluate construction program activities to ascertain if objectives are met and that proper and effective control of construction operations is maintained.
• Investigate construction delays or work stoppages and renders solutions.
• Process contract modifications and actively participate in design changes to address errors, omissions, or user design changes.
• Attend conferences and meetings with various representatives to jointly discuss and implement changes in program objectives, changes in design criteria, and other controversial matters.
• Supervise staff engineers engaged in the supervision and inspection of construction projects and handles all personnel actions.

Conditions of Employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position requires the incumbent to obtain and maintain a valid, State-issued Motor Vehicle Drivers license.
• 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.
• Subject to a one year supervisory probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements.
• Temporary business travel (TDY) away from the work-site up to 25% of the time is required.
• This position may require a Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (HTRW) physical examination pending job requirements.
• This position requires you to obtain Administrative Contracting Officer (ACO) warrant within 24 months of hire.
• This position requires spending a considerable portion of time working outdoors in all types of weather including extreme temperatures, river conditions, and is subject to injury from the use of a variety of tools, as well as, wet working surfaces.
• Due to the duties of this position to conduct construction site visits/investigations physical mobility and maneuverable may be required to bend, lift, climb, stand, push, pull, lift and walk to potentially hazardous job sites.
• This position requires you to submit a Financial Disclosure Statement, OGE-450, upon entering the position and annually thereafter.

Qualifications

1. 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 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) 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.
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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
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 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.