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Interdisciplinary
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Posted 9 days ago
About the Role
About the Position: This position is with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Ft Worth District with a duty station choice of Edinburg, San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, Lackland AFB, and Texarkana, TX or Bossier City, LA or Fort Polk, LA. See "Additional Information" below for details.
What You'll Do
- →Serves as the Resident Engineer and Administrative Contracting Officer (ACO) with direct responsibility for establishing the Resident Office's mission goals within organizational guidelines.
- →Plans, coordinates and directs the accomplishment of the various phases of the construction program in the assigned geographic area ensuring that the intent of the plans and specifications is met.
- →Represents the Contracting Officer and Area Engineer in negotiations with contractors concerning changes in construction, difficult decisions regarding controversies, which may arise between the contractors and Government employees.
- →Reviews the contractors for conformance to the applicable plans and specifications and approves or forwards to District Office for approval.
- →Monitors construction fiscal progress analyzes deviations from the plan and develops solutions to ensure commitments are met.
- →Responsible for office activities including web functions such as compiling data for the preparation of payment estimates, as-built drawings, progress reports.
- →Personally, makes inspections of contractors' operations, consulting with assistants and inspectors to determine that construction operations are progressing as schedules and in accordance with contract plans and specifications.
Requirements
- ✓Basic Requirement for Engineering 0810, 0830, 0850 Series: A.
- ✓Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering.
- ✓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.
- ✓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.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 92e212bc-9d0b-45b9-a1cf-0c5cb95f4458
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