Supervisory Civil Engineer

This position is located with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Flathead Indian Irrigation Project in Saint Ignatius, Montana.

Duties

• As Supervisory Civil Engineer, GS-0810, your typical work assignments may include, but not limited to: Apply expertise in advanced professional knowledge of civil engineering for dam design and irrigation, construction, examination, rehabilitation, and maintenance problems and issues. Apply expertise in advanced construction technology, materials engineering and failure mode analysis to dam embankment, spillway, outlet and foundation analysis, problems, and issue resolution. Oversees planning, design, engineering, construction, and construction management activities, including contract negotiations, pre-bid and post-award meetings, contract administration, and conducting surveys, inspections, and testing for new construction and rehabilitation of existing features. Provides expert technical review and guidance for irrigation programs, overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of guidelines for irrigation design, construction, operations, and rehabilitation. Directs office and field engineering activities-including design data collection, environmental and cultural reviews, contract administration, inspections, surveying, materials testing, and startup/operations-supporting construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance of water-rights settlement project features. Coordinates planning, design, engineering, environmental and cultural reviews, value engineering, and construction management activities across multiple projects. Plans and assigns work, sets priorities, and prepares schedules for completion; evaluates employee performance and provides guidance on work and administrative matters; recruits and interviews candidates; resolves employee concerns and administers disciplinary actions; identifies and arranges needed training; improves workflow and work quality; and establishes performance standards.

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: (OPM Operating Manual, Qualification Standards BASIC REQUIREMENT FOR CIVIL ENGINEER GS-14: 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 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: Evaluation of Experience: 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 1For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org. 2The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. 1 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 supervision and guidance. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-14: meet the basic requirement, and I have 1 year of specialized experience that equipped me with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of this position. This experience is related to the work of the position and equivalent to at least the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience include irrigation construction, operation and maintenance, power utility construction, operation and maintenance, dam construction, operation and maintenance, and safety issues of irrigation, power, and dam projects; formulate and recommend policies, plans and programs relating to the management, development and protection of water resources, water rights, irrigation, power, and dam facilities; prepare and justify the program budget and produces required statistical and program reports; oversee updates to contracts and related documents necessary to carry out program activities. All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur in the same location within 90 days from the closing date.

Announcement details

• Agency: Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs (Department of the Interior)
• Announcement number: DE-26-13058399-CAWV-MF
• Series: 0810 Civil Engineering
• Pay plan and grade: GS 14
• Pay: $125,776 – $163,514 Per Year
• Open to: Native Americans; Open to the public; Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL)
• Open period: October 22, 2026 to November 5, 2026 (US Eastern)

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