Supervisory Interdisciplinary (Civil Engineer/Geologist)

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers • Saint Paul, MN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, Engineering and Construction Division (E&C). The St. Paul District E&C designs water resource projects to benefit the people of Minnesota, western Wisconsin, northeastern North Dakota, portions of South Dakota and Iowa, and the nation. These projects support inland navigation, flood risk management, and environmental restoration. This position is with the St Paul District, HIRING OFFICE. Duties include supervising employees engaged in studying, planning, and designing the foundations, soils and material aspects of earth, concrete, and rock structures such as levees, retaining walls, tunnels, roads, channels, and dams. The role also oversees planning, design, and construction support for flood risk mitigation, navigation, habitat restoration, hydropower, and/or implementation of levee safety interim risk reduction measures. Additionally, it involves overseeing the development of geologic interpretations, soils, foundations, and materials inputs, and designs for the full range of planning and engineering efforts. The position provides leadership for the Levee Safety Program (Levee Safety Program Manager) and resources for inspections, evaluations and maintenance of the District's levees and channels. The role plans, organizes, coordinates, schedules, and reviews work of the section, assigns work and provides instructions covering unusual or complex features of the project, and maintains constant surveillance over section work progress, problems encountered and action taken, and ensures schedules are met. Supervisory management duties such as initiating, recommending, or approving personnel actions, approving leave, making performance evaluations, identifying training needs, resolving complaints, and effecting minor disciplinary actions are also performed.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a state driver's license.
• 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.
• 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.
• Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in geology, plus 20 additional semester hours in any combination of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological science, structural, chemical, civil, mining or petroleum engineering, computer science, planetary geology, comparative planetology, geophysics, meteorology, hydrology, oceanography, physical geography, marine geology, and cartography.
• Combination of Education and Experience: Course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
• One year of specialized experience which includes meeting all of the following: 1) Study the designing of civil works projects such as foundations, soils, and/or material aspects of earth or rock structures; 2) apply professional engineering methods for the design of large or complex Civil Works projects; and 3) lead engineers or geologists in completion of planning, design, and/or construction support.
• Must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.
• The duties of this position require the incumbent to possess and maintain license/registration as a Professional Engineer and/or Professional Geologist. This license/registration must be in good standing and issued by any one of the 50 states, or its territories.
• 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.
• Direct deposit of pay is required.
• This position requires you to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
• One year Supervisory trial/probationary period may be required.

Nice To Haves

• Relocation/PCS MAY BE authorized.
• Recruitment/Relocation/Retention MAY BE authorized.
• Acceptable experience may have been gained through geological field or laboratory work that provided a means of obtaining professional knowledge of the theory and application of the principles of geology and closely related sciences, e.g., geophysics, geochemistry, or hydrology. Such work generally must have involved making close observations, taking samples, handling various types of instruments and equipment, assembling geologic data from source materials, and analyzing and reporting findings orally and in writing. In some situations, professional scientific experience in other fields may be accepted in part as professional geological experience. Such experience must have been preceded by appropriate education in geology or by professional geological experience, and must have contributed directly and significantly to the applicant's professional geological competence. To receive credit for geological experience obtained in positions that are not full-time professional geological positions, the applicant is responsible for indicating clearly the actual time or percentage of time devoted to geologic duties within such positions, and for giving adequate descriptions of the geologic functions.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Supervises employees engaged in studying, planning, and designing the foundations, soils and material aspects of earth, concrete, and rock structures such as levees, retaining walls, tunnels, roads, channels, and dams.
• Oversees planning, design, and construction support for flood risk mitigation, navigation, habitat restoration, hydropower, and/or implementation of levee safety interim risk reduction measures.
• Oversees development of geologic interpretations, soils, foundations, and materials inputs, and designs for the full range of planning and engineering efforts.
• Provides leadership for the Levee Safety Program (Levee Safety Program Manager) and resources for inspections, evaluations and maintenance of the District's levees and channels.
• Plans, organizes, coordinates, schedules, and reviews work of the section.
• Assigns work and provides instructions covering unusual or complex features of the project.
• Maintains constant surveillance over section work progress, problems encountered and action taken, and insures schedules are met.
• Performs supervisory management duties such as initiating, recommending, or approving personnel actions, approving leave, making performance evaluations, identifying training needs, resolving complaints, and effecting minor disciplinary actions.

Benefits

• 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.
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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager