Job Specifications
Rapid city, SD
$100,000 - $130,000 PA
a day ago
Full Time
Mid Level
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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 Engineer position with the Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, Black Hills Area Office.
- Reviews existing and projected construction contracts, plans, and specifications from the standpoint of anticipating and making recommendations to improve quality, safety, constructability, biddability, and facilitate effective administration.
- Work with other Corps of Engineers team members, architects, engineers, and construction contractors to ensure requisite quality control is maintained, work is performed in accordance with contract provisions.
- Responsible for supervision and oversight of construction contracts.
- Develop preliminary findings on specifications, estimates, and recommendations for contract change orders and supplemental agreements involving additions and changes in work, designs, methods, materials, equipment, time, and costs.
- Ensure technical problems during site preparation and construction operations are resolved with minimal impact on project execution.
- Work with customers/sponsors/outside agencies to promote favorable and effective working relations and ensure adequate construction progress is maintained.
- Makes on-the-spot decisions and commitments to avoid delays in construction with respect to minor changes, deviations from schedules, substitution of materials, and resolution of dispute over the acceptability of work.
- During design phase of a project, performs constructability review of project designs and specifications to determine site compatibility and anticipated problems and participates in plan-in-hand reviews.
- Conducts negotiations with contractors on modification work to establish equitable prices and realistic time allowance for modified and/or additional work.
- Visit construction sites to ensure work is being completed within specifications.
- Reviews contractor's submittal data on proposed materials and equipment for conformance with contract requirements and recommends approval or disapproval of submitted items.
Requirements
Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or 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. For GS-12: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1) Reviewing and analyzing proposals submitted by contractors for field changes to contract plans and specifications; 2) Negotiating with contractors on those field changes where the contractor's original proposal is not acceptable; 3) Visiting work sites to verify that work is being carried out according to specifications; and/or 4) Recommending approval or disapproval of data submitted by contractors on proposed materials and equipment. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job at the GS-12 level, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.