CIVIL ENGINEER (CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT)

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-11/12/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience.

Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected.

To be eligible for consideration, you must first meet the Individual Occupational Requirement for this position QUALIFICATIONS FOR GS-0810, CIVIL ENGINEER: 1. Degree: Engineering.

To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. -OR- 2.

Combination of education and experience: college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 1.

Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.

Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. 2.

Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. 3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A.

The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph 1. 4.

Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance.

Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.) To qualify for this position at the GS-14 grade level: Experience: To qualify, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors).

Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: planning, organizing, and managing engineering/science projects or programs, including scheduling, coordinating resources, and ensuring timely, high quality deliverables. Reviewing or overseeing technical products (such as designs, analyses, reports, or studies) to ensure accuracy, adequacy, and compliance with standards.

Applying professional engineering/science knowledge relevant to civil, mechanical, electrical, or general engineering in support of water, power, hydropower, pumping plant, or related technical systems. Applying professional knowledge of contract administration and FAR-related construction regulations, including claims, changes, disputes, and negotiations.

Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: The work of this position is vitally dependent on the establishment of cooperative relationships with TSC design staff, design Team Leads, Group Managers, and Division Chiefs; regional construction staff including the supervisory Regional Construction Engineer, Resident Engineers (RE), Contracting Officer's Representatives (COR), supervisors, inspectors, materials engineering technicians, geologists, engineers, engineering technicians, and surveyors; contract staff including Contracting Officers and Contract Specialists; and facilities staff including managers, supervisors, and staff involved with facilities that regulate and control water, reservoirs, dams, structures, etc., to include Federal, State and local water irrigation districts and municipalities.

Serves as an authoritative expert supervising, mentoring, instructing, controlling, facilitating, and coordinating the construction activities to increase project efficiency and identify and resolve issues by providing expertise in constructability and contract administration for the TSC, Reclamation, and other clients including Federal, State, and local entities involved with dam safety and facilities that regulate/control water, reservoirs, dams, structures, and powerplants and large turbine generators.

Participates as the technical expert for construction on Design, Estimating, and Construction (DEC) reviews immediately prior to commencing the final design process examining all design assumptions, design criteria, and design data collected by the project team, review design considerations and applicability and effectiveness of proposed engineering solutions, detect and identify missing or deficient design data and criteria, completeness of the preliminary cost estimate, and identify constructability issues for both the Bureau and Department.

The incumbent will direct large multidisciplinary teams with project funding coming from a variety of sources, developing coordinated plans to address construction management activities and external client relations. The incumbent discusses assignments and control of work for engineers, inspectors, technicians, and administrative personnel with the Construction Management and Specifications Group Manager.

This position does not have supervisory authority but has a great deal of technical responsibility to assign and work with many areas of expertise in the interest of project management.