SUPERVISORY INTERDISCIPLINARY

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.⁠​‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠ About the Position: This is an Interdisciplinary position for the US Army Engineer District, Philadelphia Engineering & Construction Division, Technical Services Branch located in Philadelphia, PA.

Duties

• Works under the general supervision of the Chief, Technical Services Branch with whom discussions are held as to the broad overall scope of work.
• Serves as Chief, Engineering Management Section, with primary responsibility for managing the technical coordination accomplishment of pre-construction engineering
• Serves as Chief, Engineering Management Section, with primary responsibility for design products for numerous complex and diverse civil works, military and IIS projects in a major geographic area.
• As Section Chief, leads, directs, coordinates and supervises the activities of 10-12 engineers and engineering technicians to ensure mission accomplishment.
• Plans work, sets goals and objectives, establishes priorities and deadlines, considering relative complexity and difficulty of the work, supervises accomplishment and evaluates products and performance.
• Directs planning, programming, budgeting, execution of the technical work, and formulation of policy within the Section.
• Confers with and participates in meetings and conferences with representatives from offices of higher authority to furnish information and data in justification of engineering decisions
• Oversees reviews of designs and cost estimates for civil works, military and IIES designs prepared by architect-engineers
• Supervises and directs all upward reporting and administrative, budgetary and manpower functions required in connection with the assigned program and in support of Engineering and Construction Division.
• Reviews recommendations for contract bid awards.
• Supervises the constant check on condition of allocated funds and requests outlining a need for additional money.

Qualifications

This announcement uses a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. 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, AmeriCorps) 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 in this document. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes any combination of (3) of the following: 1) Experience coordinating the accomplishment of pre-construction engineering and design projects; 2) experience with monitoring budgeting and funding of engineering projects; 3) experience with reviewing contract bid awards; and 4) experience leading a team of engineering professionals. This definition of specialized experience is typical work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12). In addition to meeting the above Specialized Experience, candidates must also meet the Basic Requirements list below. BASIC EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENT FOR: GENERAL ENGINEER 0801 / CIVIL ENGINEER 0810 / MECHANICAL ENGINEER 0830 / ELECTRICAL ENGINEER 0850: 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.

Announcement details

• Agency: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Department of the Army)
• Announcement number: CERA-27-13100665-DHA
• Series: 0810 Civil Engineering
• Pay plan and grade: GS 13
• Pay: $117,284 – $152,471 Per Year
• Open to: Open to the public
• Open period: October 26, 2026 to November 2, 2026 (US Eastern)

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