Supervisory Civil Engineer

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

• Provide technical and administrative supervision to professional engineers program analysts technical specialists and support staff. Plans and assigns work to be accomplished by subordinates sets and adjusts priorities and prepares schedules for completion of work. Evaluates work performance of employees provides advise counsel or instruction to employees; identify training needs; find way to improve production and increase quality of work; develop performance standards.
• Serve as the Department of the Interiors (DOI) Dam Safety Oversight Officer advising the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation on implementation of Federal Guidelines for Dam Safety and facilitates independent quality assurance reviews of DOI Dam Safety programs.
• Responsible for Reclamations Value Program ensuring compliance with applicable OMB and DOI requirements developing Reclamations guidance for value analysis and value engineering leads selected value analysis reviews reports on value analysis plans and studies.
• Responsible for Design Cost Estimating and Construction Program ensuring reviews provide leadership with credible assurance that designs and cost estimates are appropriate and identify issues requiring attention; provides guidance and training on reviews and plans develops and coordinate independent reviews of large water resources projects.
• Oversees Reclamations Estimating Process Review Program providing tools that are technically sound defensible and effective in supporting leadership decision-making and communicating risk.
• Provides technical support for Indian Water Rights Settlements including assessing adequacy of designs cost estimates and construction methods for proposed water resources projects. Advises Department of Interior leadership on proposed settlement legislation and provides technical support to negotiation assessment and implementation teams.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
• Males born aftermust be registered for Selective Service.
• Direct Deposit participation required.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more visit are required to complete training obtain and maintain a government credit card with travel and purchase authority.
• You must possess a current licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State the District of Columbia Guam or Puerto Rico. (Must show expiration date of licensure)

• 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 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 individuals employment should continue and that their appointment should be 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 period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification in writing that your continued employment advances the public interest.
  
  This is a supervisory position that may require completion of a supervisory probationary period.

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 10/14/2026-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.

Selective Placement Factors: 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.

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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 EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must meet the requirements outlined in either A or B below to satisfy the basic requirements for Civil Engineer at all grade levels. A. Degree: professional engineering. To be acceptable the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum; 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. ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF QUALIFYING: In lieu of meeting the specific educational requirements listed above applicants may substitute four years of 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. This knowledge and understanding must be equivalent to that provided by a full 4-year professional engineering curriculum. ***The adequacy of such background MUST be demonstrated by one of the following: 1. Professional Registration - Current registration as a professional engineer 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; or 2. Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination or the written test required for professional engineering registration;

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B. Combination of education and experience: course work as shown in A above plus appropriate experience or additional education. 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. 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.

2. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelors 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 bachelors 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-15 grade level:

Experience: To qualify for this position at the GS-15 grade level you must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-14 level in the federal service. Specialized experience includes the following: (1) The applicant must have extensive experience performing a full range of supervisory responsibilities: hiring promotion discipline performance management workforce planning succession planning and employee development for highly technical staff performing GS-13-level work. (2) Must have experience ensuring subordinate staff implement and adhere to Federal dam safety requirements OMB Circular A-131 Departmental Manual policies Reclamation Manual directives and SAVE International standards. (3) Facilitating independent quality assurances reviews of Department of Interior Safety Programs including providing respective Assistant Secretaries with associated findings and recommendations. (4) Overseeing special engineering studies and develops training materials and seminars related to DEC review processes and approves technical studies performed by engineering teams. (5) Producing bureau-wide semiannual and annual reports summarizing value studies and cost savings.

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.