Civil Engineer

Reclamation is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as a Civil Engineer. You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing water demands while protecting the environment.

Duty Location: Lakewood, Colorado

GS-07 Salary: $69,946-$82,537.

GS-09 Salary: $85,552-$100,951.The duties listed are at the full performance level.

• Performs conventional and routine engineering analyses assignments associated with technical planning activities; data collection; modeling and data analyses; analyses of site location and/or conditions; risk estimation and analyses; or analyses of instrumentation data.

• Drafts technical documentation for conventional or routine engineering assignments or for assigned portions of complex projects.

• Completes conventional and routine engineering designs.

• Participates in civil engineering facility examinations, reviews, and/or inspections which include conducting condition assessments and construction and transfer inspections.

• Drafts and/or monitors project plans that outline the scope, schedule, and budget of assigned projects.

• 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.

Recent Graduates: You must meet all Eligibility and Qualification requirements by 05/16/2024

Future Graduates:You must meet all requirements AND be able to start working no later than 10/24/2024. No Exceptions to extend past this date.

To qualify for the Civil Engineer GS-0810-07/09, you must meet BOTH the Basic Qualification Requirement and the Additional Requirements. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience. A copy of your unofficial transcripts must be provided with your application.

BASIC QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT

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.

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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), 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.

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2.Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 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.

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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.

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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.)

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ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT

In addition to meeting the basic education requirement, you must also meet one of the following for each of the grade levels. Specialized experience is obtained after the requirements noted under 'Basic Qualifications Requirements' are met.

GS-07

A. Specialized Experience: 1 year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-05 level in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience may include assisting experienced engineers with a wide variety of structural and hydraulic analyses of civil structures including structural components for pumping plants, power houses, fish facilities, buildings, foundation, block stability, steel and other civil structures.

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B. Education: 1 year of graduate-level education or completed a 5-year program of study of at least 160 semester hours leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering.

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C. Combination of Education and Experience:

A combination of education (above a bachelors) and specialized experience may be used to qualify for this position if the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

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D. Superior Academic Achievement.

Superior Academic Achievement is based on 1) class standing, 2) grade-point average, or 3) honor society membership. Specific requirements are: 1) Class Standing: Upper third of graduating class based on completed courses; 2a) Grade Point Average: 3.0 or higher as recorded on official transcript or as computed based on 4 years of education; 2b) based on courses completed during the final full 2 years of curriculum; or 2c) 3.5 or higher based on average of courses completed in the specific major field of study; or 3) Honor Society Membership: Election to membership in a national scholastic honor society listed in the Association of College Honor Societies, Booklet of Information, and/or Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities (membership in a freshman honor society cannot be used to meet it).

GS-09

A. Specialized Experience: 1 year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-07 level in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience may include performing a wide variety of structural, hydraulic analyses, dynamic design of civil and building structures including pumping plants, power houses, fish facilities, steel buildings and other structures under close supervision.

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B. Education: 2 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.

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C. Combination of Education and Experience:

A combination of education (noted in choice B) and specialized experience (noted in choice A) may be used to qualify for this position if the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.

You must include months, years and hours per week worked to receive credit for your work and/or volunteer experience. One year of specialized experience is equivalent to 12 months at 40 hours per week.

Part-time hours prorated. You will not receive any credit for experience that does not indicate exact hours per week.

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.