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Interdisciplinary Supervisory Land Surveyor / Civil Engineer (Highway) (Open to all U.S. Citizens )

Federal Highway Administration · Department of Transportation
📍 Lakewood, Colorado 💰 $118675 – $154280/yr 🏠 Telework eligible

Job Summary

This is an interdisciplinary position, which means that the duties and responsibilities of the position relate to both the Civil Engineer (Highway) (0810) and Land Surveyor (1373) fields. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of this position, a person with the education and experience in either the 0810 or the 1373 field may be considered equally well qualified to do the work.

Major Duties

As the Survey and Right of Way Manager, you will lead a team that collects land survey data and secures the land rights to build infrastructure for National Parks, Forests, and Wildlife Refuges. Since the 1900s, Federal Lands Highway has delivered innovative transportation solutions in complex, unique environments. Join our team and make a difference! Learn more: https://highways.dot.gov/federal-lands/careers. We work where you play! You will also: Plan, coordinate, direct, and supervise the survey, mapping, right-of-way, and utility coordination activities for the Division. Estimate and manage the technical scope, schedule, and budget for project activities. Lead the refinement of standard operating procedures and quality control measures. Lead the implementation of new technology. Ensure measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. The ideal candidate for this position is a senior career land surveyor or civil engineer with extensive experience supervising land surveyors and survey technicians performing field surveys, researching property boundaries, preparing right-of-way documents, and conducting utility coordination for transportation improvement projects.

Education

All applicants must meet the education and specialized experience requirements of at least one of the series AND the specialized experience of this vacancy in order to qualify. To qualify for the Civil Engineer (0810) series, you must meet at least one of the following criteria: A. 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 B. 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: 1. 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. 2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. 3. 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. 4. 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. 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.) ENGINEERS: As you are applying to an engineering position and are qualifying based on possessing a current Professional Engineer (PE) license, or passing the Engineer in Training (EIT) exam, please provide a copy of PE license or written documented proof of passing the EIT. To qualify for the Land Surveyor (1373) series, you must meet at least one of the following criteria: A. Degree: Land Surveying; or Civil Engineering with a surveying option/emphasis. The civil engineering major must have included at least 6 semester hours of surveying, 3 semester hours of land law, and 21 additional semester hours in any combination of the following: surveying, photogrammetry, geodetic surveying, geodesy, route surveying, remote sensing, cartography, survey astronomy, land information systems, computer-aided mapping, aerial photo interpretation, and survey analysis and adjustments. OR B. Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in land surveying or civil engineering as described in paragraph A, plus appropriate experience or additional education. OR C. The basic requirements for this series may be fully satisfied by a current registration as a land surveyor in a State, territory, or the District of Columbia obtained by written examination. Such registration must have been obtained under conditions outlined in the National Council of Engineering Examiners (NCEE) Unified Model Law for Registration of Surveyors. Applicants wishing to be considered under this provision must show evidence of registration based on successful completion of the written examinations. Registrations granted prior to adoption of a registration law with qualification requirements equivalent to the NCEE Model Law by the State, territory, or District of Columbia are not acceptable under this option. To be considered equivalent to the NCEE Model law, registration laws must include the four options listed within the NCEE Unified Model Law in the section specifying "General Requirements for Registration" as a Professional Land Surveyor. TRANSCRIPTS ARE REQUIRED as there is a stated education requirement for the series. The transcripts need not be official but must show that you meet the stated education requirements, including specific major or class requirements.

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