Civil Engineer

4 weeks ago

Chicago, United States FEMA Region 5 Full time

FEMA Region 5 Chicago, IL Full-time Engineering

Posted on April 24, 2024

In this position you will work as a member of the Regional Offices, Region Five, Mitigation Division, Risk Analysis Branch. The Ideal candidate for this position you will perform as Civil Engineer managing Risk MAP programs and federal grants, interpreting engineering data of flood studies and mitigation opportunities, communicating technical information to various audiences.

In this position, you will serve as a Civil Engineer in the Risk Analysis Branch of the Mitigation Division. You will report to a Supervisory Engineer Risk MAP Team Lead who reports to the Risk Analysis Branch Chief. This is a complex and challenging position requiring knowledge of local and regional natural hazard planning, hydraulics and hydrology. The assigned areas of responsibility embody the latest state-of-the-art methodologies and engineering concepts and requires development of entirely new or vastly improved evaluation techniques and procedures applicable to the unique physical conditions of each area under study. Assignments call for in-depth perception and analysis of the variety of interrelated and conflicting conditions present in the studies as well as levee and water resources engineering concepts. Typical assignments include:

  • Managing and overseeing highly technical and complex projects relating to floodplain mapping.
  • Recommending technical direction and coordinating with other Regional Project Officers in conducting flood risk studies and mapping.
  • Reviewing completed work submitted by Regional mapping partners for technical adequacy of results and to determine conformance with FEMA policies, procedures, and methods.
  • Collaborating with Federal Agencies, State agencies, Tribes, local governments and other stakeholders in the development and review of flood hazard information.
  • Identifying and defining study and mapping standards and recommending modifications so that hazard maps and studies reflect current policy and legal requirements.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation.? At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov .

Qualifications

Current Federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the Federal service. The time-in-grade and qualification requirements must be met within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement.

To qualify for this position at the GS-13 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the Federal or Private Sector and must demonstrate all of the following:

  • Supporting Risk Map program implementation efforts, experience serving as a civil engineer and project manager for administering various mitigation programs, and providing oversight and monitoring of civil engineering studies; and
  • Performing contracting actions for floodplain mapping for the Risk MAP program (i.e cost estimates, development of scopes of work, and monitoring/compliance efforts for engineering or flood insurance studies,

In addition to the minimum qualifications described above, you must meet the following requirement(s) to be considered qualified for the position: A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's 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

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)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.
2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional

Education

Positive Education Requirement:This position has a positive education requirement, as outlined in the "requirements" section. You must submit a copy of your transcripts (unofficial are acceptable) with your online application. Once selected and prior to appointment, applicants must provide official college transcripts.

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