Supervisory Mechanical Engineer

Summary

This position locates in the Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Pacific Northwest Region (PN), Office of the Regional Director, Construction and Engineering Group (CEG-1020000) located at Grand Coulee Field Office in Coulee Dam, Washington. You may be required to travel overnight away from home for the purpose of visiting construction sites, performing field work, and attending meetings. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes.

Duties

At the full performance level (GS-13) the major duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following: Provide senior-level oversight of complex mechanical construction activities, ensuring contractor work meets engineering standards, technical specifications, safety requirements, and environmental regulations across multiple regional projects. Lead and supervise a multidisciplinary workforce, including mechanical engineers and construction control personnel, by assigning and prioritizing work, establishing performance expectations, evaluating completed work, and supporting employee training and development. Coordinate and integrate mechanical, civil, and electrical construction activities, resolving technical issues, interpreting plans and specifications, and recommending adjustments to maintain quality, schedule, and cost objectives. Serve as the region's principal technical expert for mechanical engineering, reviewing construction documents, design specifications, contractor submittals, and proposed methods to assess feasibility, compliance, and project impacts. Conduct field inspections and project monitoring to verify contractor progress, identify and document deficiencies, recommend corrective actions, and ensure thorough and accurate reporting of project activities and installed materials. Support contract administration by collaborating with Contracting Officers to monitor contract performance, evaluate change requests, provide technical recommendations, and ensure that construction activities satisfy contractual requirements. Represent the Construction Engineering Group in meetings with contractors, project staff, and stakeholders, providing authoritative guidance on technical issues, compliance expectations, project status, and resolution of construction concerns. Physical Demands/Work Environment: The work involves no physical demands in the normal office work structure; however, occasional visits to construction projects and associated work sites may be required. Visit to construction sites may involve stooping, climbing stairs and ladders, and walking on uneven surfaces, slopes, scaffolding. The position is a motor-vehicle operator position. Work is primarily performed in an office setting, although there are field visits to construction sites and other facilities. Occasionally performed field work includes exposure to a wide variety of industrial work environments and weather conditions; hot and cold, rain and snow, mud and frozen ground, noisy machinery, and moving of heavy construction equipment. Travel may involve transportation in light and commercial aircraft, and overnight travel may result in a varying environment. The employee is responsible for the safe operation of motor vehicles. Driving must comply with the requirements established by Reclamation. Travel to and from field locations is required.

Qualifications

Qualifications: All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-10/13/2026-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. Selective Placement Factor: This position requires a special qualification that has been determined to be essential to perform the duties and will be used as a screen out element. If you do not provide evidence that you possess the following selective factor(s), you will be rated not qualified. You must possess a current, valid Professional Engineer License. You must provide a copy of your license with your application package. -AND- 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 (you must include a copy of your transcripts): 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: 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. 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. 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. 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 su