Location: Philadelphia, PA
Company: United States Army
may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Duties As the Dredge Program Design Manager, you will: Serves as a senior design manager within the Marine Design Center Mandatory Center of Expertise (MCX). Responsible for the design management involves difficult or unusual planning, scheduling, negotiation, and coordination, and/or require substantial modification or revision of standard guides, precedents, methods and techniques.
Serve as POC to Project Managers and external customers for the Marine Design Center in support of USACE's Life Cycle Dredge Recapitalization Program. Prepare the Engineering Quality Control Plan. Ensures that all design team members are provided
proper direction, criteria, and guidance. Coordinate with assigned vertical governance structure and other project delivery team members in the planning, design, cost engineering, construction, acquisition, and environmental considerations for dredge design projects.
Control and manage the assigned Dredge Program Design and Engineering workload and associated milestones and budgets in coordination with other functional Branch Chiefs and National Dredge Expert. Budget project funds to Dredge Programs Branch elements, consistent with progress to be attained, and measures and monitors performance to assure commitment of all parties is being maintained. Review and approve, within authorities
provided, cost and schedule changes. Endorses all products produced in support of the project and has authority and responsibility to challenge those products.
Requirements Conditions of Employment Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation. Incumbent may be subject to a one year probationary period. The duties of this position requires travel up to approximately 25% of the time. The duties of this position requires the incumbent to possess or obtain and maintain a valid state Driver's License. This position requires frequent lifting of moderately heavy items weighing up to 25lbs.
Incumbent is required to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, upon entering the position and annually, in accordance with Do D Directive 5500-7-R, Joint Ethics Regulation, dated 17-Nov-2011. Qualifications THIS IS A DIRECT HIRE SOLICITATION - THIS POSITION IS BEING ADVERTISED THROUGH THE DIRECT-HIRE AUTHORITY (DHA) FOR CERTAIN PERSONNEL (MODIFIED DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY, SECTION 1109; PL, 116-92, DATED 12/20/2019). ( This authority is primarily being used to appoint qualified candidates who are not existing Department of Defense competitive service employees with permanent status.
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, Ameri Corps) 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. Basic Educational Requirement for Civil Engineer, Mechanical Engineer and Electrical Engineer or Naval Architect: 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. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: (1) Preparing design memorandums of vessels with input from various disciplines; (2) Negotiating complicated issues on vessel designs with various stakeholders; and (3) Forecasting schedule, budget, manpower or quality problems to ensure resolution Selective Placement Factor: This position requires the incumbent to possess a Professional Engineering (PE) License.
To be further considered for this position, applicants must attach License How You Will Be Evaluated You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above. Candidates will be evaluated in accordance with the qualification and eligibility requirements set forth by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) located at: Veterans and Military Spouses will be considered along with all other candidates.
If selected, you may be required to provide additional supporting documentation. Required Documents Your complete application includes your resume and other documents which prove your qualifications and eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further. 1. Your resume: Your resume may be submitted in any format and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement.
If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations and you may not be considered for this vacancy. For qualifications determinations your resume must contain hours worked per week and the dates of employment (i. e. HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete and you may not receive consideration for this position.
For additional information see: 2. Other supporting documents: Cover Letter, optional This position has an individual occupational requirement and/or allows for substitution of education for experience. If you meet this requirement based on education you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your application package or you will be rated ineligible. See: This position requires a job-related license or certification. You MUST submit a copy of your license or certification with your application package or you will be rated ineligible. See: NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office.
Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility. If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements: 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. 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. PDN-9adbe083-ff-0e4b1531a227
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