CIVIL ENGINEER

You will serve as a CIVIL ENGINEER. This position is located within the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Region, Four Corners Construction Office, located in FARMINGTON, NEW MEXICO. Pay will vary based on grade level for which selected. First time hires to the Federal government normally start at the step 1 rate.

Qualifications: All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 09/18/2026 - 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. Minimum Qualification Requirements: To qualify for this position, you must meet the following minimum qualifications: Basic Educational Requirements: In addition to the specialized experience requirements for this position, you must meet at least one of the following: 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:

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.) -AND- Specialized experience at the GS-11 level: To qualify for this position at the GS-11, you must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-9 level in the Federal Service having demonstrated experience performing a minimum of two or more of the following duties: - Performs engineering analysis to include performing and/or coordinating technical planning activities; - Completes and/or reviews engineering designs, drawings or reports. - Participates in and /or leads technical work groups or teams. - Plans, schedules, coordinates, and conducts civil engineering facility examinations, reviews, and/or inspections; - Provides technical reviews, peer reviews, and checking of designs, drawings, engineering analysis, and technical documents, specifications, and contract correspondence; - Provides technical guidance, training, and advice to lower graded engineers and technicians; OR - Develops, monitors, and manages project plans that outline the scope, schedule, and/or budget of assigned projects. OR Education: Successful completion of at least 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. (Degree must reflect the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work.). You must include transcripts. OR Combination You may combine specialized experience and education to meet the minimum qualifications. Specialized experience at the GS-12 level: To qualify for this position at the GS-12 grade level, you must possess a Professional Engineering (PE) License and one full year of professional experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in the Federal Service having demonstrated specialized experience performing a minimum of four or more of the following duties: - Performs engineering analysis to include performing and/or coordinating technical planning activities; - Completes and/or reviews engineering designs, drawings or reports. - Participates in and /or leads technical work groups or teams. - Plans, schedules, coordinates, and conducts civil engineering facility examinations, reviews, and/or inspections; - Provides technical reviews, peer reviews, and checking of designs, drawings, engineering analysis, and technical documents, specifications, and contract correspondence; - Provides technical guidance, training, and advice to lower graded engineers and technicians; OR - Develops, monitors, and manages project plans that outline the scope, schedule, and/or budget of assigned projects. Professional Engineering registration is required by Reclamation Policy (GS-12 level only). 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.

At the full performance level, some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Performs engineering analyses to include performing and coordinating technical planning activities; data collection (including validation and management); modeling and data analyses; analyses of site location and/or conditions; risk estimation and analyses; or analyses of instrumentation data. Completes and/or reviews engineering designs to include: 1) planning and conducting engineering studies or evaluations such as preliminary, appraisal, feasibility, final design, and value planning/value engineering; 2) creating, performing, reviewing, checking, and/or modeling engineering designs; 3) developing design criteria, procedures, and instructions; 4) providing technical approval as the engineer in responsible charge of design activities and engineering decisions; 5) contributing to the design and modifications of new and existing complex features to mitigate static, dynamic, and hydrologic/hydraulic loadings; or 6) design, installation, and maintenance of instrumentation systems to provide engineering data for analysis and/or operational decision support. Evaluates engineering aspects of state and federal regulatory and permitting programs, conducting bond adequacy reviews, oversight reviews, and reviews on federal lands and in states with resource extraction programs under direct federal jurisdiction. Develops project guidelines, protocols, and procedures that are specific to the project; and may review for comment or propose draft Bureau directives, standards, and policies. Plans, schedules, coordinates, and conducts civil engineering facility examinations, reviews, and/or inspections which include conducting condition assessments and construction and transfer inspections; identifying deficiencies relative to design criteria, applicable codes and standards, or state or federal statutes or regulations; calculating preliminary estimates for repairs; coordinating with internal and external partners; documenting and presenting results; identifying future needs for the asset investment such as extraordinary maintenance and rehabilitation; and project management planning. Develops, monitors, and manages project plans that outline the scope, schedule, and budget of assigned projects. Works with Contracting Officer/Grants Officer/Awarding Official to implement and administer a variety of assigned contracts, including construction contracts, service or supply contracts, P.L. 93- 638 Indian Self Determination and Education Assistance Act as amended contracts/agreements, interagency agreements, and financial assistance agreements. Provides engineering support in connection with regulatory program oversight, policy and rulemaking efforts, review of regulatory compliance issues, and resolution of engineering related issues as they are encountered. Develops, modifies, and utilizes relational databases to maintain engineering data for conducting operational and planning analyses. Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.