CIVIL ENGINEER

Summary

You will serve as a CIVIL ENGINEER. This position is located within the Lower Colorado Region, Civil Group, Clark County, NV at HOOVER DAM. Pay will vary based on grade level and/or duty location for which you're selected. First time hires to the Federal government normally start at the step 1 rate.

Duties

As a Civil Engineer, you will perform the following duties: The incumbent serves as a civil engineer responsible for supporting the planning, scoping, procurement, design oversight, and construction management of engineering and construction projects throughout the Lower Colorado Dams Office. Work includes major building renovations, paving and roadway improvements, embankment and erosion repairs, rockfall mitigation, facility improvements, and other contracted work at Hoover, Parker, and Davis Dams. Duties include developing and reviewing project scopes, statements of work, performance work statements, technical requirements, independent government cost estimates, acquisition-support documents, and other project documentation needed to procure and manage engineering or construction contracts. The incumbent coordinates with internal stakeholders, facility personnel, acquisition staff, contractors, consultants, and subject matter experts to define project requirements and resolve technical issues. The incumbent completes or reviews engineering studies, evaluations, drawings, specifications, calculations, design criteria, and cost estimates. Reviews are performed for technical adequacy, constructability, completeness, clarity, and consistency with project requirements. The incumbent may also support preliminary design, appraisal-level evaluations, final design review, value planning, and value engineering efforts. During construction, the incumbent supports contract administration by reviewing submittals, coordinating responses to RFIs, evaluating field issues, supporting change order development, reviewing contractor progress, and helping ensure work complies with contract requirements. The incumbent serves as a technical representative for assigned work and coordinates resolution of design, construction, and contract-related issues within the scope of assigned projects. Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.

Qualifications

Qualifications: All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-09/30/2026-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 Requirement AND Specialized Experience for the series to which you are applying. 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 or more program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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 professional 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: Professional registration or licensure -- current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico; Written test -- evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam or the written test required for professional registration; 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. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph A; -OR- Related curriculum -- successful completion of 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. You must submit transcripts. -AND- Specialized Experience Requirements: In addition to the basic education requirement, in order to be rated as qualified for this position, the HR Office must be able to determine that the applicant meets the specialized experience requirement - this information must be included in the resume. Specialized Experience Requirement at the GS-11 level: To qualify at the GS-11, you must possess: Specialized Experience Requirement: One full year of specialized experience equivalent in responsibility and scope to the GS-09 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is professional experience supporting civil engineering, facility, infrastructure, construction, design, or maintenance 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.). -OR- Combination of education and experience: You may combine specialized experience and education to meet the minimum qualifications. Specialized Experience Requirement at the GS-12 level: To qualify at the GS-12, you must possess: Specialized Experience Requirement: : One year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-11 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is professional experience managing, leading, coordinating, or serving as a technical representative for civil engineering, facility, infrastructure, construction, design, or maintenance projects. 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; philant