Construction Analyst

As a Construction Analyst at theGSsome of your typical work assignments may include:

• Serves as a senior technical authority responsible for the desk based verification and evaluation of a wide range of property types including single family residences multifamily residential complexes such as apartments and condominiums with specialized building systems and distinctive business structures.
• Independently reviews and analyzes comprehensive project documentation including contractor estimates engineering reports detailed plans and blueprints insurance assessments and varied financial records to determine the extent of disaster related damage associated repair costs and applicant eligibility.
• Frequently resolves unprecedented or technically challenging cases with limited guidance issuing authoritative recommendations regarding loan eligibility and disbursement amounts while ensuring strict adherence to agency policies regulations and applicable statutes.
• Regularly mentors and reviews the work of lower graded analysts and loss verifiers.

• You must be a U.S. Citizen
• You must successfully complete a background investigation.
• You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government travel credit card.
• A credit check is required.
• This is not a bargaining unit position.

Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- architecture engineering building construction or other fields related to the position.

OR

Specialized Experience (for positions above GS-5): Experience in the preparation or review of plans specifications or estimates of materials and costs for the construction extension alteration or repair of buildings. Applicants should have knowledge of the residential construction field and experience in the development of plans and specifications and in negotiation work. This experience may have been obtained working as a contractor or as a draftsperson in an architectural engineering firm. However any drafting experience must have provided an opportunity to acquire technical knowledge.

Appropriate experience includes working with diverse construction materials (brick lumber reinforced concrete steel) and types of structures (housing single-family dwellings and multi-family apartment units and industrial and commercial structures). Applicants should be familiar with matters such as planning a subdivision laying out traffic flow in a multi-family apartment structure or working out specification problems in plans.

GS-11: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service obtained in either the private or public sector:

• Evaluating or generating estimates engineering reports inspections appraisals plans/blueprints insurance assessments or similar construction-related project documentation to repair or construct residential and complex commercial structures Or
• Applying practical construction knowledge of repair restoration or construction of residential and complex commercial structures And
• Communicating with customers contractors or other parties regarding project details (e.g. damages repairs costs code compliance or policy/procedural requirements etc.) And
• Using computers systems or databases to complete assignments research information or prepare reports/documentation etc.

These qualifications must be clearly referenced in your resume.

3 academic years of progressively higher-level graduate education.
OR Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree
OR LL.M. in a field directly related to the position (e.g. architecture engineering building construction). Education must be in a field which demonstrates the knowledge skills and abilities necessary to perform the duties of the position.
OR A combination experience as described in A and graduate level education as described in B when combined are equivalent to 100% of the qualification requirement. Only graduate level education in excess of two full years (36 semester hours) may be used in this calculation. To compute first determine the total number of graduate level hours that exceed 36 semester hours and then divide that number by 18 to arrive at a percentage. Then divide the total number of months of qualifying experience by 12 to arrive at a second percentage. Add the two percentages together. The sum of the percentages must equal at least 100% to qualify.


Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on OPMs Qualifications web site:

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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.

Generally time in non-pay status as a federal employee is not creditable towards the specialized experience requirement listed above.

All qualification requirements must be met by 11:59 pm (Eastern Time) on 09/07/2026.