Civil Engineer

Summary

You will serve as a Civil Engineer with Bureau of Reclamation.

This position is located within the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, Applied Hydrology 2, LAKEWOOD,COLORADO.

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Duties

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Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following:

• Engineering Analysis : Performs and/or coordinates engineering analyses including technical planning activities; data collection, validation, and management; modeling and data analyses; analyses of site location and/or conditions; risk estimation and analyses; or analysis of instrumentation data.
• Design : Plans and conducts engineering studies or evaluations such as preliminary, appraisal, feasibility, final design, and value planning/value engineering studies. Creates, performs, reviews, checks, and/or models engineering designs. Develops/drafts design criteria, procedures, and instructions. Contributes to the design and/or modification of new or existing features to mitigate static, dynamic, and/or hydrologic/hydraulic loadings. Designs, installs, and/or maintains instrumentation systems to provide engineering data for analysis and/or operational decision support.
• Documentation and Presentation : Prepares and reviews technical documentation such as technical memorandums and reports, correspondence, design criteria, design standards, designer's operating criteria, operating procedures, and other technical documentation as needed. Makes oral presentations of technical documentation at coordination meetings, technical briefings, or other meetings.
• Review and Mentoring : Provides technical reviews, peer reviews, and checking of designs, drawings, engineering analyses, and technical documentation. Provides technical guidance, training, and advice to lower graded engineers and technicians and other internal and external stakeholders.
• Other Duties (non-grade controlling / non-series controlling) : Project Management - Develops, monitors, and manages project plans including outlining project scope, schedule, and budget; coordinating and communication with other groups or offices; monitoring tasks and budget; managing changes to project plans; identifying and addressing issues prior to adverse impacts to schedule or budget; and participating on or leading technical teams. Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) / Grants Officer's Technical Representative (GOTR) / Awarding Official's Technical Representative (AOTR) - Works with Contracting Officer / Grants Officer / Awarding Official to implement and administer assigned contracts, including technically monitoring contracts/agreements to ensure that they are carried out to completion as outlined in the contract/agreement. Compliance - Provides engineering support in connection with regulatory program oversight, policy and rulemaking efforts, review of regulatory compliance issues, and resolution of engineering related issues. Database Operation - Develops, modifies, and utilizes relational databases to maintain engineering data for conducting operational and planning analyses, and coordinates and operates engineering data collection systems. Technical Working Groups - Participates on and/or leads technical work groups or teams.

The following duties are shown at the GS-11 level. Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.

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Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Direct Deposit participation required.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more, visit
• Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment.

As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary period to evaluate your fitness and whether your continuation of employment advances the public interest.

This probationary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated. Upon completion of your probationary your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.

*Additional Requirements located under qualifications*

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 09/18/2026-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.

Qualifications:

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.

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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-09 grade level:

Experience : To qualify, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: carrying out conventional or routine civil engineering assignments with regular guidance from senior engineers including data collection, modeling and data analyses, engineering design studies and projects, technical documentation, and other civil engineering assignments. You must include hours per week worked.

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Education: 2 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree.

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Combination of education and experience as listed above. You must include hours per week and transcripts.

To qualify for this position at the GS-11 grade level:

Experience : To qualify, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: carrying out conventional or routine civil engineering analyses including technical planning activities, data collection, modeling and data analysis, risk estimation and analysis, engineering design studies and projects, technical documentation, and other civil engineering analyses. You must include hours per week worked.

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Education: 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree.

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Combination of education and experience as listed above. You must include hours per week and transcripts.

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.

Education

This position has a mandatory education requirement.

You must submit a copy of your transcript(s) to support claimed education if substituting education for experience. Transcripts must include your name, school name, grades, credit hours earned, major(s), grade point average or class ranking, and date the degree was conferred, if applicable. A typed list of courses, grades, semester/quarter hours, GPA, etc. will not be accepted. Non-submission may result in being rated not qualified for the position. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

Foreign Education: To receive credit for education completed outside the United States, you must show proof that the education has been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and such education has been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit:

Additional information

Additional vacancies may be filled using this job announcement.

Promotion to the full performance level is neither guaranteed nor implied and will be based solely on your ability to satisfactorily perform the work of the position, existing work at the higher grade level, and recommendation by the position's supervisor.

All DOI employees, their spouses, and minor children may not acquire or retain any claim, permit, lease, small tract entry, or other rights granted by the Department in Federal lands, with limited exceptions. Additional ethics prohibitions can be found here, DOI Ethics Prohibitions | U.S. Department of the Interior.

Physical Demands/Work Environment : The work is usually performed in an office setting. However, work time may also be spent periodically visiting field sites. Field site visits are typically performed in either an outdoor setting subject to weather changes, diverse terrain, and safety hazards associated with working around complex features and/or construction, or an industrial setting subject to noise, fumes, and moving machinery. Both settings may require the use of personal protective equipment. Safety precautions and protocols are observed at all times and the incumbent complies with safety instructions and regulations and ensures individual and others' safety by promptly reporting unsafe acts, unsafe conditions, and accidents to the supervisor.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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