Civil Engineer (Structural) GS-0810-11, GS-0810-12, GS-0810-13 (24712)

About the role

This job announcement will fill multiple vacancies for a Civil Engineer (Structural) at the full performance levels (FPLs) of GS-11, GS-12, GS-13.

Responsibilities

• Develop design details of structural features for structures such as navigation locks, floodwalls, floodgates, control structures, pumping stations, ports, harbors, bridges, and determining engineering principles that apply.
• Confer with engineers in other organizational units to resolve conflicts in design and construction and recommend solutions.
• Provide structural engineering services for new construction and rehabilitations on large, complex river navigation (locks and dams), flood control reservoir and local flood protection projects.
• Perform analysis and design applying standard engineering methods and techniques in the performance of preliminary and final design.
• Prepare construction contract documents for various structural features for challenging and complex Civil Works projects for river navigation systems, flood control reservoir projects and local flood protection projects.
• Cookordinate structural aspects of projects with multi-disciplined engineering team, Operations personnel and Construction Engineering personnel responsible for related specialized phases of the project.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for structural design aspects of civil works engineering projects.
• Lead the end-to-end development of project plans and specifications including coordinating all engineering input, managing team activities, and mentoring staff to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality work.
• Prepare scopes of work for Architect-Engineer (AE) contractors, manage negotiations, and serve as the technical point of contact to ensure all contractor-led designs and plans comply with official standards.

Qualifications

• For GS-11: Specialized experience includes assisting senior level engineers in the preparation of analysis, design and inspections of structures; creating conceptual versions of contract drawings, as well as preliminary calculations, quantities, and technical specifications; performing initial review of project submittals to ensure they are in accordance with the contract plans and specifications; participating in onsite inspections during construction, periodic safety assessments and structural evaluations.
• For GS-12: Specialized experience includes independently developing designs for structural features of large projects; developing design computations for structures composed of steel and/or reinforced concrete; independently preparing structural engineering documents such as drawings and specifications; performing structural site evaluations and investigations; leading multi-disciplined project design teams in the development of plans, specifications, and studies for large or a combination of smaller engineering projects.
• For GS-13: Specialized experience includes serving as lead structural engineering, providing consulting, review, mentoring, and assistance on a wide variety of complex civil works and navigation projects; providing expertise and mentoring on Project Delivery Teams (PDT) and Review Teams; performing preparation of plans, specifications, and modifications of complex civil works projects; developing design details of structural features for the more complex structures such as navigation locks, floodwalls, floodgates, control structures, pumping stations, and bridges, determining the engineering principles that apply; identifying technical policies, administrative procedures and basic guides for structural engineering studies and design.