OPEN & CLOSING DATES 6/14/2024 TO 6/21/2024

SERVICE: Competitive

PAY SCALE: GS-GRADE 11/12

SALARY: 80,217 to 124,988

APPOINTMENT TYPE: Permanent

WORK SCHEDULE: Full-Time

LOCATIONS: Carson City, Nevada

RELOCATION EXPENSES REIMBURSED: Yes

TELEWORK ELIGIBLE: Yes

SUMMARY: This position is located in an Area or State Office, USDA, Rural Development (RD). Incumbent performs a variety of assignments requiring professional experience and technical competence in civil engineering activities, procedures, principles, techniques and evaluations.

RESPONSIBILITIES: Advises and consults with private groups, public bodies and state and/or Federal agencies on the civil engineering aspects of projects financed by loan and grant programs. Provides technical guidance for project eligibility and priority. Reviews and concurs with Agreements for Engineering Services, construction project preliminary plans, drawings, designs, specifications, and cost estimates. Works with staff, applicants and their consultants with respect to the suitability of proposed Preliminary Engineering Reports (PER) as well as other documents associated with applications for funding and projects approved for funding. Prepares procedures for use by staff for carrying out engineering and related program activities and for training purposes.

SUPERVISORY STATUS: No

PROMOTION POTENTIAL: 12

REQUIREMENTS:

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:

must be a US Citizen or US National born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check

completion of one-year probationary period, unless previously served.

Deposit - Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit E-Verify at https://www.e-verify.gov/

QUALIFICATIONS:

In addition to meeting the basic requirement, qualified applicants must possess: For the GS-11 grade level: Applicants must possess one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level; or its non-Federal equivalent that demonstrates: Experience assisting in the review of construction project preliminary plans, drawings, designs, specifications and cost estimates; advising/consulting with private groups, public bodies and other agencies on civil or environmental engineering and architectural aspects of projects; assisting in providing advisory and technical services in the engineering, planning and design process for projects that may include single housing, wastewater facilities, businesses, community facilities. OR 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. OR A combination of graduate level education beyond the second full year of graduate level education and specialized experience that together meets the qualification requirements for this position.

For the GS-12 grade level: Applicants must possess one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level; or its non-Federal equivalent that demonstrates: Experience reviewing construction project preliminary plans, drawings, designs, specifications and cost estimates. Advising/consulting with private groups, public bodies, and other agencies on civil or environmental engineering and architectural aspects of projects. Extensive experience providing advisory and technical services in the engineering, planning and design process for projects that may include single or multifamily housing, wastewater facilities, businesses, and community facilities. There is no substitution of education for specialized experience at this grade level.

EDUCATION:

This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcement to verify qualifications. If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment. You may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS. Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration. Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Accreditation may be verified at the following website: www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html.Foreign education must be evaluated by a private professional organization specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials or an accredited U.S. educational institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired at an American college or university. A copy of the evaluation results must be included, otherwise your foreign education will not be considered. From

BASIC REQUIREMENTS:

A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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:

Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern( EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, 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.

Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

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 the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.

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, maybe 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.)

BACKGROUND CHECKS AND SECURITY CLEARANCE:

SECURITY CLEARANCE: Not Required

DRUG TEST REQUIRED: No

POSITION SENSITIVITY AND RISK: Non-Sensitive (NS)/Low Risk

TRUST DETERMINATION PROCESS: SUITABILITY/FITNESS

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BENEFITS: PLEASE REVIEW ON USAJOBS.GOV

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