Interdisciplinary

**Duties**:

- Prepare cost estimates for modifications and participates in negotiations as required including reasonableness of time extensions and impact of modification on project schedule.
- Review and monitor Contractor’s construction progress and submitted schedules and requests for payment and makes recommendations regarding approval of payment estimates based on construction progress achieved and quality of work.
- Knowledge of professional engineering principles, methods, and techniques, especially as they pertain to quality assurance surveillance and control of construction operations.
- Possess general knowledge of construction practices, materials and systems as well as contract requirements sufficient to examine physical construction and assess quality of the work.
- Process payment estimates and other administrative documents, entering all data into Corps of Engineers Financial Management System (CEFMS), PD2 and the USACE Resident Management System (RMS).
- Assure that safe working conditions and practices are obtained as required by the contract and the Resident office safety policy as applicable to Contractor and Government personnel.
- Maintain continual surveillance over construction operations and takes appropriate action based on knowledge of applicable requirements to correct conditions.
- Review Contractor submittals including shop drawings, samples, data, and other pertinent information; for compliance with contract documents, Accident Prevention Plans, Quality Control Plans, etc.
- Provide leadership, guidance and issues instructions that are pertinent to accomplishment of the mission.
- Meet and communicates verbally, via telephone, E-Mail and in writing with contractors, customers, designers, stakeholders, and District Office personnel on project-related matters.
- Render assignments and instruction to other employees, evaluates their work, and feeds back information to the supervisor or individual responsible for employee' performance evaluations or other personnel actions.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- Submission of a Financial Disclosure, OGE-450, prior to appointment and annually thereafter.
- This position requires you to obtain Contracting Officer's Representative qualification within one year of placement into this position.
- This position requires you to possess or obtain/maintain a valid, State-issued motor vehicles driver's license since project sites may be located in remote areas that are not accessible by public transportation and to operate a Government vehicle.
- This position requires travel away from the official worksite (TDY) to other duty locations approximately 50% of the time on an annual basis.
- This position requires to work outdoors in all weather, including extreme temperatures and to potentially hazardous jobsites.
- This position requires to pass a Hazardous Toxic and Radiological Waste (HTRW) physical exam, if required.
- This position is designated as "Mission Essential". In the event of severe weather conditions or other such emergency type situations (natural or man-made disaster) it's required to report to work or to support mission operations.
- This position requires you to work in Vestal, NY for a period of three (3) years, and after the three (3) years period, the job will require a station to station move to Sydney, NY. Resident office located in Fort Drum, NY.

**Qualifications**:
**Who May Apply: US Citizens**
- **Basic Requirement for Engineer**: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**
- 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 registrati