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 position is located at McNary Lock & Dam which is located on the Columbia River near the rural community of Umatilla, OR Employees working at McNary Dam and living in the State of Washington are exempt from Oregon state tax.
- Serve as technical lead for structural features of civil works projects to include hydropower, navigation, fish passage, recreation, and flood protection.
- Prepare designs and perform analyses of structural components subjected to static and dynamic loads including hydrostatic, hydrodynamic, wind, snow, ice, and seismic loading.
- Perform preliminary and final structural design, including indeterminate analyses, advanced computer modeling, and finite elements analyses.
- Prepare preliminary and final structural designs including drawings, specifications, analyses, and other necessary supporting related documentation for structural designs using a diversity of materials.
- Review in-house and architect-engineer's structural designs and coordinate/assure designs conform with current design criteria.
- Perform site visit inspections and ensure adequacy of structural features and compliance with existing policy and construction requirements, to include reporting results.
- Act as a specialist in the field of structural engineering principles and the application of data processing to resolve structural problems associated with work assignments or in support of others.
- Mentor junior engineers.