CIVIL ENGINEER (STRUCTURAL)

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 11/16/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Competitive candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience that you will be granted.

An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service dates will be reflected.

For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, 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. Individual Occupational Requirements: To qualify for this position, you must meet the Individual Occupational Requirements: Basic Requirements: A. 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 B. 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 A. 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: in planning, organizing, and managing engineering projects, 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 engineering in support of water, power, hydropower, pumping plant, or related technical systems. You must include hours per week worked. 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.

Bureau-Wide (Bureau of Reclamation) - This is a Merit Promotion announcement for career and career conditional Bureau employees, Career Transition eligibles (CTAP), Current or former time-limited employees eligible under Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA) and those who are eligible under the hiring paths listed above. Refer to Required Documents section for more information.

Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Reviews technical policies, criteria, standards, and guidelines, determining their adequacy and consistency with state-of-the-art procedures. Participates in or directs the development of new analysis and design practices, policies, guidelines, and standards relating to the features listed above. Prepares technical documents for approval by appropriate official(s) and for subsequent publication.

Performs or directs the structural/functional investigations for the most difficult and complex types of features listed above. Recommendations include analysis, design, layout, and/or construction methods based on these investigations. This duty is performed to ensure technically adequate and technically complete designs and specifications are in compliance with all adopted local and national design and safety codes and are consistent with the mission of the organization.

Provides technical approval of structural designs, drawings, and documentation; participates on Architect/Engineer (A/E) selection boards, and reviews A/E design products that require the incumbent to be a licensed engineer. Directs and/or provides technical assistance and review on analysis and design procedures with the various Reclamation Technical Service Center disciplines and organizational units and with Region, Area, and other client offices.

This duty is performed to ensure technically adequate and technically complete designs and specifications are in compliance with all adopted local and national design and safety codes and are consistent with the mission of the organization.

Initiates correspondence and maintains communications with Reclamation Region and Area Offices, commercial firms, professional societies and other professionals as required on matters affecting technical issues, policies, procedures, guidelines, practices, and limitations, in the areas of structural analysis, design, and construction of the features listed above. Serves as Team Leader or member of a team or committee that contribute to Reclamation's mission and objective.

May serve on Reclamation and interagency panels, work groups, and boards where expertise is applicable. Visits construction sites and Region, Area, or other offices to discuss recommendations for design procedures and details, provides advice on design considerations, assists in resolving construction problems and inspects structures under construction for compliance with design intent. Prepares reports on findings and gives oral briefings to appropriate official(s).

Initiates special studies and evaluations to expand the state-of-the-art of structural analysis and design for a variety of building materials and systems used in the types of structures evaluated within Plant Structures.