This position is located with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Water & Power, Flathead Indian Irrigation Project in Saint Ignatius, Montana.
As Civil Engineer (Irrigation), 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.
Formulate alternatives and make recommendations to higher management levels on dam safety and irrigation program issues and individual dam safety, construction quality control, construction management, operation, maintenance and rehabilitation issues. Provide subject matter guidance to co-workers, Tribal officials, and consultants, as well as State, local, and federal government entities, regarding the irrigation projects.
Lead or serve on technical dam safety teams for risk informed approach analysis, also leads or serves on teams which perform value engineering studies on dams and make decisions which are required and specialized as related to dam potential failure modes as a dam construction specialist. Perform quality assurance inspections and progress monitoring to verify that all work complies with project plans, specifications, and standards.
If you are qualifying based on your education, you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.
If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society. One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis.
If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.
If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education which shows the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S.
education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html
Melissa.Folmar@bia.gov · (405) 399-1061
This position is with Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior.
The posted pay range is $106437 – $138370/yr.
Applications close on 2026-11-16.
This position is open under the 'Native' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government · Retrieved 2026-11-03 · Not affiliated with or endorsed by OPM or USAJOBS.gov
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