You will serve as a Supervisory Civil Engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation. This position serves as the technical authority for civil engineering related to major Federal water and power infrastructure, providing authoritative engineering leadership essential to the safe, reliable, and resilient operation of Reclamation's dams, hydropower plants, pumping plants, and water conveyance systems across the western United States.
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 Interior's (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 Reclamation's Value Program ensuring compliance with applicable OMB and DOI requirements, developing Reclamation's 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 Reclamation's 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.
This position has a mandatory education requirement. You must submit a copy of your transcript(s) to support claimed education if substituting education for experience. Transcripts must include your name, school name, grades, credit hours earned, major(s), grade point average or class ranking, and date the degree was conferred, if applicable. A typed list of courses, grades, semester/quarter hours, GPA, etc. will not be accepted.
Non-submission may result in being rated not qualified for the position. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.
Foreign Education: To receive credit for education completed outside the United States, you must show proof that the education has been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and such education has been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs.
For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit: https://www.ed.gov/about/initiatives/international-affairs/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications
This position is with Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior.
The posted pay range is $147945 – $197200/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-10-14.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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