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: This is a Civil Engineer (Structural) GS-0810-13 for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tulsa District, located in Tulsa, OK. Duty Location is Tulsa, OK. Incumbent must be comfortable working at heights in an under-bridge inspection truck (snooper truck).
Duties
Function as a structural engineering technical specialist in the Infrastructure Branch with program management responsibilities for the District’s bridge and hydraulic structural steel inspection programs.
Ensure the District is in compliance with applicable engineering regulations.
Interacts with higher level offices as circumstance demands.
Develop and submit program budgets, monitors expenditures, and assists in projecting future funding requirements to meet the inspection goals.
Provide structural engineering expertise and guidance to departmental chiefs and counterparts at the District, USACE, government agencies and private interests.
Serves as the District's Bridge Program Manager.
Schedule meetings, maintains bridge database, develops inspection resourcing plans, resolves resourcing conflicts, manages program budgets and funding, and provides technical and administrative advice and assistance to leadership.
Assist Hydraulic Structural Steel (HSS) Program manager with the inspection program. This requires coordination with the Operations Division to develop a 5-year inspection plan, including schedule and budget, and resources necessary for inspection.
Review and approves structural engineering features and applications of planning, design and construction documentation for bridges, gates and other HSS (hydraulic structural steel) features.
Perform quality control reviews, independent technical reviews and value engineering studies within the structural discipline.
Act as technical structural consultant to Project Management and Resource Management on issues dealing with systemic processes and procedures.
Provides technical support to Construction Division in non-routine matters involving disputes, differing interpretations of contract requirements and/or complex relationships of systems and subsystems.
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/
How you will be evaluated
Once the announcement has closed, a review of your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements listed on this announcement. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. You may claim Priority Placement Program (PPP) preference. Veterans and Military Spouses will be considered along with all other candidates.