r/USACE

Hello. I'm doing some reading on shipping a truck over to Europe. It appears the Toyota Tacoma meets the size and weight restrictions. It also appears finding gas in Germany/Netherlands/Belgium is not a problem. Before I buy a Tacoma I wanted to see if anyone here has shipped a truck over? I'm asking because I've been told that not many people have trucks over there. I need a truck. I'm always hauling stuff. My wife plans to buy furniture over there, etc. Thanks for your help and info.

I do not do any type of time keeping. I want that to be noted first. I have an online training coming up and I currently work 5/4 9's. The training is on my long week so I will be here in the office all week. My time keeper told me I have to come off of AWS for the training because I will be using the training code for 8 hours. I told them that doesn't make sense can't I just come in at my regular time and charge 8 hours to the training and 1 hour to our regular charge codes we use? They said no when you use that training code it locks the 8 hours and doesn't let you use another charge code for that day. Is this true? It seems like this can't be true. We split hours for days on different time codes all the time. Why can't I just charge 1 hour to a different code and stay on my AWS? My time keeper hasn't been here that long so they could be wrong but thought I would ask here.

I am currently a GS-12/6 under Job Series 0810 , under the Special Salary Rate table. I learned GS-12 and GS-13 will be lumped into one group as NH-3. It seems like I will be getting a pay decrease ? it seems AcqDemo means no loss of pay for the base salary , not necessarily other adjustments? this is pretty stressful, my salary will go down $14k-$15k if no consideration /adjustment is made for the SSR. anyone else have more insight?

Does anyone have any tips on getting photos off of a work phone before a factory reset? iPhone 16. I can’t connect to any work apps anymore, that’s why they want to reset. I was able to transfer to my personal phone using airdrop, but not sure how to move them from there. Too many photos to email.

Hello, Been working for about 8 years on private side and looking to get into USACE as a geotech engineer, don't see any opening in that region so should i just wait or apply for different districts? any insight is helpful.

Anyone have info on when performance awards will be rolling out? Just checked my LES and it’s not this PP, lol.

I just graduated college this May with a BA in history. I applied for a direct hire 1102 position at USACE in May and got referred at gs7 exactly one month later, on June 3rd. That same day I received an email from the district chief of contracting asking for a confirmation of continued interest, which I sent. I’ve seen on LinkedIn over the past few weeks that this district is hiring again, so it seems like they’re having an easier time with the process than others. Since it’s now august, I’d assume that means that the 90 day window for the direct hire certificate is due to expire relatively soon. If they don’t get a 30 day extension, what does that deadline actually mean? If the expiration was for example September 1st, would that mean they would have to have sent out a TJO notification before that date, or is it possible that the person they select won’t even receive a notification until later? Any advice at all is appreciated, thanks

An internal posting for a job I'm considering has the new OPM short essay questions built into the application. It says 'responses are not required and will not be scored', however, one cannot submit an application without providing text in the boxes.

Without getting into it on 'why not just answer the questions?'.... does anyone know if applications are getting through without providing answers, i.e. putting in a period to trick the webpage to allow the submission?

So I’m a Structural Engineer that’s a GS 12 Step 2. It is my understanding that NH-03 is the payband that groups all of GS 12 and 13. Now is it true that our raises are achievable annually, but at the expense of self reporting mid year and annual reviews and hoping your role? I also don’t have my PE yet, but since there is no hard split in the payband, is it achievable to obtain GS 13 Step 10 pay without a PE? Or is there some kind of soft cap for non PE’s? I would assume something needs to be implemented cuz workers can’t max out at the same pay as their supervisors.

I have been trying to get promoted to GS13 forever. Topped out at 12 and the work keeps piling up but colleagues with one job get promoted. District had several chances to offer promotion to 13 with Division creating the space even- and still no go. Now threatened with MDR. At the same time a 13 job is miraculously created. Can’t do both. Might do none.
Anyone else having heartburn over this reorg?

Hi all! I am a recent graduate with a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering. I am very interested in getting into a fellowship with USACE for a while now and have applied to the Army Fellows Program - Mechanical Engineer on July 6. Since then, I have received two status update emails. Does anyone know the expected time in which I will get a response on whether I am accepted or rejected? I know they have to do a bunch of processes such as background checks which may be why they are taking a lot of time.

So I have had other jobs before USACE and I never thought that was unique. But now that im here I realize that the majority of my coworkers came into the corps right out of college (im in environmental)

I have had fairly tsrse conversations that ultimately ended in "well thats what the corps does" and i honestly find it concerning and counterproductive.

Is this normal or just my office? I just constantly find myself wondering if I should be here.

I am curious as to what positions get posted for overseas jobs that your able to bring family with. I am a 0802 an seems I’m only ever seeing engineering degreed positions is that how it works or do they allow Techs to go?

TLDR: looking for literally any info on available APIs/portals/developer tools for USACE employees

Hi folks! I’ve recently started dipping my toes into automation and while I’ve worked with only powershell scripts and the GenAI API, I started exploring power automate yesterday and many of the tools I’m wanting to use require different APIs.
I’m wondering is there’s a website or point of contact for a list of available developer tools or API portals.
Just to vent: it’s been infuriating trying to get an answer to this on my own, especially when there’s 10 different internal and external sites that seem like they SHOULD have the answer, and then don’t.