Public Assistance Disaster Recovery – Technical Specialist
AECOMAbout the role
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Job Description
AECOM is now accepting resumes for various technical specialist positions to perform the tasks listed below in the Project Overview.
Technical Specialists may include: Architect, Civil Engineer, Coastal Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Environmental Engineer, Geologist, Health Scientist, Hydraulic Engineer, Hydrologist, Industrial Hygienist, Mechanical Engineer, Sanitary Engineer, and Soil/Geotechnical Engineer.
The Technical Specialists will be embedded within FEMA to provide technical assistance that may include the following:
Conduct site inspections to validate and record infrastructure damage to include: taking photographs, making site sketches, and writing detailed damage descriptions.
Develop and review scopes of work and cost estimates, including code and standard requirements.
Review and analyze engineering reports, designs, and as-built plans.
Make recommendations regarding claim eligibility.
Develop or evaluate hazard mitigation proposals and benefit-cost analyses.
Work with applicants to prioritize their projects, facilitates applicant meetings throughout the program delivery and recovery stages, and communicates the final determination to the applicants.
Provide analyses and updates reports, participates in status update meetings with FEMA, and identifies the need for technical specialists. May coordinate and complete basic to moderately complex site inspections to validate and record damage to assist in the FEMA Public Assistance grant delivery process.
All Technical Specialists will use FEMA’s Grants Manager system. FEMA’s Grants Manager system is used to assign and track actions throughout PA project development and to collect all PA project-related information and documents, including correspondence.
If selected the role would initially be a part-time, casual position and would become full-time upon task order awards.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Construction, Science or Engineering field with 4 years of related technical experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
Due to the nature of the work, must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain DHS Public Trust clearance.
Technical knowledge base and experience in discipline’s standard concepts, principles and techniques as well as in the design and/or construction of public infrastructure.
Experience must fall under engineering, architecture, cost estimating, or construction inspection and management.
Experience with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Teams, Excel, and Word), Adobe Acrobat, Google Earth (file conversion and import/export ability required), and smartphone.
Must be able to commit to travel assignments for up to 1 year in duration. Trips home to your residence are reimbursed and allowed every 30-45 days, depending on task order specifics.
Must have a valid driver’s license, as a condition of employment, pass AECOM's motor vehicle records review.
Must provide completion certificates including your first and last name for the following free and publicly available courses.
Security/Privacy Courses (must have 2024 completion dates)
Unauthorized Disclosure of Classified or Unclassified Information (https://securityawareness.usalearning.gov/disclosure/index.html)
OPSEC Training (https://securityawareness.usalearning.gov/opsec/index.htm)
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