Archive for 2011

Civilian Personnel COMMAND-WIDE RECRUITMENT AND OUTREACH MATERIALS PURPOSE. This Recruitment Portfolio contains information designed to be used by Corps personnel in support of recruitment and outreach activities. CLICK TO DOWNLOAD

Command-wide Recruitment and Outreach Materials CAREER PROFILE SUPPLEMENT – PARK MANAGEMENT Covering an entire wall of Jim Runkles’ office at Bonneville Lock and Dam in Cascade Locks, Oregon is an organizational chart.  As Park Manager, one would expect Jim to …Read More

Command-wide Recruitment and Outreach Materials CAREER PROFILE SUPPLEMENT – REAL ESTATE One usually doesn’t think of a realty specialist as a vital member of the “first wave” when the United States sends military troops overseas.  But as a member of …Read More

Command-wide Recruitment and Outreach Materials CAREER PROFILE SUPPLEMENT – ELECTRICAL ENGINEER Here’s the situation: you’re the electrical engineer in charge of quality assurance at the construction site of a $100 million hospital addition when the critical care systems don’t come …Read More

Command-wide Recruitment and Outreach Materials CAREER PROFILE SUPPLEMENT – LAW Janet Smith believes that her four years as a Corps assistant district counsel have provided her with a magnitude of legal experiences.  “It was more than I would have expected …Read More

Command-wide Recruitment and Outreach Materials CAREER PROFILE SUPPLEMENT – PUBLIC AFFAIRS It’s not every day that you have to lean out of a Black Hawk helicopter to get the best photograph for a hot story.  But then again, it’s not …Read More

Command-wide Recruitment and Outreach Materials CAREER PROFILE SUPPLEMENT – ARCHITECTURE When she’s sitting at her desk at the Albuquerque District of the Corps of Engineers, Maria Ugarte-Shelton seems easy to please.  “Whatever is under construction is my favorite project,” she …Read More

Command-wide Recruitment and Outreach Materials CAREER PROFILE SUPPLEMENT – BIOLOGIST The Corps offers many opportunities as a biologist, some more specialized than others.  Mary Todd Uhlir spends most of her workday providing meticulous directions for thousands.   Thousands of fish, that …Read More

Command-wide Recruitment and Outreach Materials CAREER PROFILE SUPPLEMENT – CONTRACTING Perhaps it comes as no surprise that Judy Hackney views the Corps of Engineers primarily as a “Contracting organization.” A contract specialist in the Savannah District, Judy believes that both …Read More

Command-wide Recruitment and Outreach Materials CAREER PROFILE SUPPLEMENT – MECHANICAL ENGINEER When Gary Robinson describes his job as entailing a lot of “elbow work, he’s talking much more than physical labor.  He’s also talking ducts.  Lots of them.

Command-wide Recruitment and Outreach Materials CAREER PROFILE SUPPLEMENT – COMPUTER SPECIALIST Ask Michael Henderson to describe what it’s like to be a computer specialist at the Corps of Engineers and he says, “The Corps gives me the opportunity to be …Read More

Command-wide Recruitment and Outreach Materials CAREER PROFILE SUPPLEMENT – HYDRAULICS Create a world of difference with a career in Hydraulics:  Jane McKee Smith will never forget the time she walked along a Louisiana beach in Grand Isle shortly after Hurricane …Read More