Civil Engineer (Geotechnical)

• Civil Engineer (Geotechnical) technical lead and senior designer providing expert technical advice and authoritative conclusions supporting the design and construction of multi-million dollar civil and military works projects.
• Responsible for the investigation and design of geotechnical aspects of structures and criteria such as, buildings, dams, reservoirs, channels, levees, shore protection, roads, recreation areas, underground structures, and airfield pavements, etc.
• Develop site characterization studies to include boring layouts, sampling programs, and laboratory and field testing programs. Utilize knowledge of geotechnical engineering principles to determine design properties of soil and rock.
• Perform review of technical design documents, and evaluate and recommend necessary changes pertaining to the soil mechanics, foundation design and foundation engineering applications.
• Advise and consult with personnel internal and external to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, including, A/E firms, other Federal agencies, State and local Agencies, State Dam Safety offices, military installations, and private construction contractors.
• Ensure compliance with established criteria, sound engineering principles, standard practices, and existing building codes. Detect omissions, discrepancies, inadequacies, and non-conformance with approved criteria.
• Perform field inspections of proposed or existing works and evaluate design during and after construction.

Conditions of Employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• You will be required to file a Financial Disclosure Statement, OGE-450, upon entering the position and annually.Business travel requirement is 25%.
• A valid, state-issued motor vehicle driver's license is required since project sites may be located in remote areas that are not accessible by public transportation.
• Lifting and carrying equipment up to 20 pounds may be required. Walking on rough terrain may also be required. Must observe all safety rules, regulations and directives applicable to this work requirement.

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.