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12/09/2019 to 12/22/2019
$66,250 - $103,232 per year
GS 11 - 12
1 vacancy in the following location:
No
Occasional travel - Occasional travel may be required
Yes—Travel and relocation expenses will be paid consistent with the Federal Travel Regulation, Chapter 302, and Departmental policy. The use of a relocation service company and home marketing incentive will not be offered.
Permanent - This is a permanent position.
Full-time - Work Schedule is Full Time.
Competitive
12
No
No
OR-DEU-2020-0017
553820900
U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
Current or former competitive service federal employees.
Individuals eligible under a special authority not listed above, but defined in the federal hiring regulations.
This position will be filled under the Office of Personnel Management's Direct Hire Authority covering Scientific, Technical, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) positions and is open to all US Citizens. Veteran's Preference and traditional rating and ranking of applicants do not apply. Qualified veterans will be given full consideration for this position.
As part of the BLM Oregon State Office, Branch of Engineering, the Civil Engineer provides transportation engineering support and program leadership for the 9 districts located throughout Oregon and Washington (OR/WA). This position serves as the states’ program lead for all activities related to transportation planning, design, and implementation of the FHWA designated transportation systems including roads, bridges, trails, etc. Major responsibilities for this position include:
An Engineer in Training (EIT) Certification is required for the GS-11 grade for this position.
A Professional Engineering (PE) license is required for the GS-12 grade for this position.
Physical Demands: Work requires physical ability to spend long hours in the field involving walking, bending, climbing and carrying survey equipment. Work may require extended periods of long hours in the field during inclement weather. Office work may require long periods of intense concentration while working on reports, programs and calculations, etc. Work efforts involve significant amounts of time in both the office and field, sometimes involving overnight travel.
Work Environment: Office work is performed in a typical office setting with no unusual risks. In the field, seasonal weather conditions vary from over 100 degrees F in the summer to below 0 degrees F in the winter. Exposure to inclement weather conditions, and steep or rough terrain, can create hazardous driving and working conditions. Travel to remote sites during the field season is common, sometimes with overnight stays.
Selective Placement Factors For GS-12: This position requires a special qualification that has been determined to be essential to perform the duties and will be used as a screen out element. Those who do not provide evidence they possess the following selective factor(s) will be rated not qualified. Selective Factor: Currently registered as a professional civil engineer by a State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
Selective Placement Factors For GS-11: This position requires a special qualification that has been determined to be essential to perform the duties and will be used as a screen out element. Those who do not provide evidence they possess the following selective factor(s) will be rated not qualified.Selective Factor: Currently certified as a Engineer in Training (EIT) as designated by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES).
Specialized Experience Requirements:
In addition to meeting the basic requirement specified under the Education Requirement and the professional registration requirement, you must also meet the following Specialized Experience Requirements: In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the specialized experience requirement - please be sure to include this information in your resume. To be creditable, this experience must have been equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade of the position to be filled.
For GS-11: Specialized experience a the GS-09 level should have provided professional knowledge of the theories, principles, practices, and techniques of civil engineering to design buildings, recreation facilities, roads, bridges and natural resource control structures. Examples include preparing complete contract drawings, specifications and bid documents as required to insure construction compliance with the project design criteria; performing as the designated engineer for coordinating the review of plans and specifications prior to advertising for construction bidding to determine practicality of designs for normal construction methods; working with senior engineers on unusual or difficult construction requirements to ascertain if normal methods will provide the desired end result.
OR Substitution of education for experience: 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, in a related field.
For GS-12: Specialized experience at the GS-11 level should have provided the Knowledge of a wide range of professional civil engineering concepts, principles, standards and practices in order to apply and adapt them to carry out standard and complex engineering projects relating to a wide variety of resources. Examples include: overall design and review, contract administration and acting as the liaison between A & E firms; leads the project layout, including survey, necessary profiles, selection of borrow areas, cross sections when needed, drop structures, etc.; reviews environmental assessments for engineering adequacy and performs field checks to determine adequacy of mitigating measures; prepare reports outlining findings and providing recommendations based on cost benefit ratios, environmental considerations, and sound engineering practices; develops engineering components of work plan submissions for building maintenance and resource management needs and objectives; develop or reviews contract documents, provides contract administration, or works as a mediator to resolve contract problems; represent the office when acting as liaison with local, state and federal agencies on technical matters, project proposals and other engineering issues and concerns.
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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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
You must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
Basic Qualifications:
A. Degree: professional engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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.
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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 professional 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:
Professional registration -- Current registration as a professional engineer 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.
Written Test-- Evidence of having successfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for professional registration, which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Applicants who have passed the EIT examination and have completed all the requirements for either (a) a bachelor's degree in engineering technology (BET) from an accredited college of university that included 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences, or (b) a BET from a program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) may be rated eligible for certain engineering positions at GS-5. Eligibility is limited to positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of the engineering technology program. Applicants for positions that involve highly technical research, development, or similar functions requiring an advanced level of competence in basic science must meet the basic requirements in paragraph A.
Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph A.
Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)
*You will need to clearly state your undergraduate/graduate degree(s) and submit your college transcripts or a listing of your college courses that includes hours and grades.
SELECTIVE SERVICE: Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must certify that they have registered with the Selective Service System, or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law. To register or verify your registration go to the Selective Service System website.
May require completion of a 1-year probationary period.
CTAP and ICTAP eligibles will be considered well qualified if they exceed minimum qualifications for this position.
The Bureau of Land Management has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval.
If selected for this position, you will be required to complete a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450 within 30 days of reporting to duty. You will be required to provide this information annually.
Government facilities are required to provide a smoke free environment for their employees. Smoking will be permitted only in designated areas.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Upon receipt of your complete application, a review of will be made to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. Because this vacancy will be filled through OPM's Direct Hire Authority, Veterans Preference and traditional rating and ranking of applicants do not apply to positions filled under this announcement. Eligible and qualified candidates will be referred to the hiring manager in unranked order for consideration. In addition, interviews may be conducted for this position. The job specific questions relate to the following knowledge, skills and abilities required to do the work of this position.
KSAs:
1. Broad professional and working knowledge of the civil engineering theories, principles, practice and techniques as related to design, construction, and maintenance of such things as: detention and retention dams, stock water pipelines, water catchments, fences, wells, well plugging, access roads, cattle guards, recreational facilities, buildings, building maintenance and support facilities and related utility systems.
2. Knowledge of Federal contracting policies, regulations and requirements in order to act as a Contracting Officer's Representative. The incumbent must have a sound knowledge of contractual regulations for developing supply, service, and construction contracts and inspection methods. In the case of conflicting contracting data, the, incumbent uses judgment to determine course of action.
3. Knowledge of automation technology, policies, and procedures to lead, advocate, sponsor, and integrate the use of automation in accomplishing program functions.
4. Ability to effectively communicate with both technical and management personnel within an organization and with outside groups for activities requiring engineering input.
Resumes must show relevant experience and other information. Your resume must list your education and work experience including the dates (mm/dd/yy) of each employment along with the number of hours worked per week and salary information. Your resume will be used to validate your responses to the assessment tool(s). You are welcome to submit a cover letter (optional). If you wish to do so, include it with your resume.
In addition to the online application (resume and responses to the questionnaire), you are required to submit the following forms:
If you are not currently in the GS-810 series, you must provide a copy of Transcripts or a list of college courses that include hours and grades from an accredited U.S. college/university. If your degree is from a Foreign Institution, See Foreign Education.
Proof of registration as a Professional Engineer (GS-12).
Proof as certification as an Engineer in Training (GS-11)
Current and former federal career and career-conditional employees: submit a copy of your recent (non award) SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action, or equivalent document that verifies tenure (block 24, code 1 or 2) and Competitive Status (block 34, code 1).
If you are applying for this position based on eligibility under other noncompetitive special appointing authorities, you MUST submit proof of this eligibility.
Applicants eligible under PL-114-47, Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA) must submit documentation verifying (a) initial selection under competitive examining procedures to a land management agency under a time-limited appointment in the competitive service , (b) service under this initial appointment, or in conjunction with subsequent competitive service time-limited appointments, to a land management agency was for a period of 24 months without a break in service of two or more years, and (c) performance was evaluated as being at an acceptable level for the entire applicable period(s). “Required documentation” includes first and last SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) for each appointment verifying the Position Occupied code (Block 34) is 1-Competitive Service, AND documentation of successful performance for each appointment. Applicants are encouraged to combine all required documents into one or more files and scan for uploading into the application. Each file must not exceed 3MB. Grouping documents into files will simplify the application process. Failure to submit required documentation will result in loss of consideration.
You may submit your documents either via Auto-Requested Fax or by uploading your documents from your USAJOBS Profile.
Auto-Requested Fax: allows you to submit required documentation that will be electronically displayed along with your resume.
UPLOADING DOCUMENTS: instead of faxing your documents you may use the uploading procedures thru Applicant Manager. Do not use both options.
Hard copy paper supplemental documents, submitted without prior Human Resources approval, will be considered as an incomplete application.
Required documentation must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, on the closing date of this announcement.
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
To receive consideration for this position, you must provide a complete Application Package, which includes ALL of the following items: 1. Your responses to the Assessment Questionnaire; 2. Your resume; and 3. Applicable supporting documents specified in the Required Documents section of this job announcement.
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Your application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time by the closing date of this announcement.
If you need assistance in applying on-line, please contact amalray@blm.gov or 503-808-6242. If applying on-line poses a hardship for you (i.e. you do not have access to the internet) you must contact us prior to the closing date of the announcement for an alternative method of applying.
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BLM is seeking a dynamic and energetic individual to join the team to serve as a Civil Engineer.
The BLM manages more land - 245 million surface acres - than any other Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western States, including Alaska. The BLM, with a budget of about $1 billion, also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. The BLM's multiple-use mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.
