CIVIL ENGINEER (HYDRAULICS/HYRDOLOGIC)

Provide senior technical leadership and guidance to Districts in support of strategic planning, workload sharing, quality management, and regional engineering initiatives.

Provide oversight and technical guidance for reservoir operations, including water control, reservoir releases, pool elevations, water quality, and low-flow requirements.

Lead the review, development, and coordination of water control manuals, drought contingency plans, emergency regulations, water control data systems, and related hydrologic studies.

Analyze reservoir, river, watershed, hydrologic, and meteorological conditions and provide recommendations supporting routine and emergency water management decisions.

Direct and evaluate studies involving multipurpose water resource projects, including flood risk management, hydropower, navigation, recreation, water supply, water quality, and environmental considerations.

Serve as a Division specialist and technical consultant for hydrology, hydraulics, and water quality, providing quality assurance and technical guidance for engineering studies, reports, and designs.

Develop, interpret, and implement technical policies, criteria, standards, and procedures related to hydrology, hydraulics, sedimentation, stream scour, and water management.

Serve as the Division’s senior technical expert and Regional SME for enterprise GIS, providing leadership for geospatial systems supporting infrastructure readiness, engineering, operations, emergency response, and regional decision-making.

Lead and support the development and application of GIS technologies, data integration, mapping, imagery, surveying, GPS, and other geospatial capabilities to improve mission execution and information sharing.

Coordinate with Districts, HQUSACE, and federal, state, and local partners to promote data sharing, interoperability, technology transfer, and effective implementation of water management and geospatial programs.

Represent the Division at technical conferences, professional forums, interagency meetings, and stakeholder engagements, providing expert advice and presenting technical information to senior leaders and other audiences.

Evaluate emerging technologies, policies, and practices and recommend innovative approaches to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of engineering, water management, and geospatial programs.

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) announcement. 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 in this document. BASIC REQUIREMENT FOR ENGINEERS: A. 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.

OR B.

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: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.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level in the Federal service that includes providing technical expertise in water resources engineering, such as reservoir operations, water management, hydrology and hydraulics, or water quality; developing, reviewing, or implementing water control plans, engineering studies, policies, or technical guidance; and applying geospatial/GIS technologies to support engineering, infrastructure, water resources, or operational decision-making.

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-12 for the GS-13 and GS-13 for the GS-14).