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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

Command-wide Recruitment and Outreach Materials CAREER PROFILE SUPPLEMENT – HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Create a World of Difference with a career in Human Resource Management:  Initially, Mary Logan had given no thought to a career with the federal government.  She had …Read More

Command-wide Recruitment and Outreach Materials CAREER PROFILE SUPPLEMENT – ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING The summer after he finished tenth grade, Mark Zappi began a career with the Corps.  He entered one of the Corps summer programs for high school students and dreamed …Read More

Command-wide Recruitment and Outreach Materials CAREER PROFILE SUPPLEMENT – CIVIL ENGINEERING With A Career in Civil Engineering:  Wipawi Vanadit-Ellis, a Corps civil engineer in soil mechanics at the Waterways Experiment Station, never knows when someone like the President of the …Read More

This is the America that the U.S. Army Corps of engineers has been helping to build for more than two centuries.  And, as we move toward the 21st century, this is the America that the Corps can help you to …Read More