Civil Engineer

Duties

• Serve as a senior civil engineer and subject-matter expert (SME) within DPW, responsible for planning, designing, and overseeing highly complex, mission-critical DoD construction and infrastructure projects.
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams (civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, architectural) while coordinating design integration across DPW Divisions and external partners such as USACE and AE firms.
• Develop engineering solutions for unique military facility requirements w UFC guidance must be adapted, augmented, or engineered from first principles due to complexity or mission sensitivity.
• Provide authoritative technical review, quality assurance, and engineering approval of civil engineering design plans and environmental permit applications prior to formal submission to the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE).
• Direct the specialized infrastructure safety and inspection program, managing scheduled bridge, rail, airfield, and dam inspections; evaluates highly complex inspection findings to prioritize repair, modernization, and funding strategies.
• Provide expert technical review and approval of AE designs, ensuring compliance with DoD engineering criteria, antiterrorism/force protection (AT/FP) standards, environmental requirements, and installation master plans.
• Senior DPW project manager or COR for high-visibility Military Construction, Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization, or OM projects, managing technical execution, contractor performance, schedules, budgets, and risk.
• Advise installation leadership on infrastructure health, long-range facility planning, investment strategies, and engineering policy recommendations, often representing DPW during command briefings.
• Resolve high-impact engineering, contractual, and funding issues, ensuring project continuity and compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and DoD guidance.
• Provide authoritative guidance to engineers, technicians, and contracting staff, shaping DPW engineering practices, standards, and design procedures.
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• Serve as a DPW design engineer responsible for full-scope civil/structural engineering design, including criteria development, detailed calculations, complete drawings, specifications, and IGEs
• Conduct complex engineering analyses of existing DoD facilities, including load capacity assessments, foundation evaluations, geotechnical reviews, and utility impacts
• Develop design packages that integrate structural, civil, utilities, and life-safety requirements according to UFC, UFGS, IBC, National Electrical Code, National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards, ADA, and DoD installation design guides
• Review civil engineering design plans and specifications for regulatory compliance, and prepares, coordinates, and packages submittals for review and permit approval by the Maryland Department of the Environment and other external regulatory bodies
• Coordinate/oversee specialized infrastructure inspection programs including bridge, rail, airfield pavements, and dam inspections ensuring structural safety standards are met, inspections comply with DoD, Army, and federal regulatory reporting cycles
• Manage assigned construction projects as DPW's technical representative, resolving engineering issues, clarifying design intent, and coordinating with contractors and USACE as required.
• Review AE final designs, resolving discrepancies and ensuring alignment with mission requirements, installation development plans, and DPW engineering policies.
• Provide technical support to DPW Operations Division by troubleshooting complex facility issues such as drainage failures, structural degradation, utility conflicts, or soil/foundation problems.
• Mentor junior engineers and engineering technicians, providing technical direction on DPW design processes, UFC implementation, and engineering decision-making.
• Prepare engineering justifications and documentation required for project approval by installation leadership, Garrison staff, USACE district offices, or State authorities. GS-9 and GS-7 see Benefits section.
  Requirements Conditions of employment
• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation. Incumbent must be able to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance for the duration of employment.
• Lift up to 30 lbs.
• TDY 5% to visit worksites.
• Must serve a one-year probationary period unless already service in accordance with regulations.
• Completion of OGE-450 Financial Disclosure.

Qualifications Who May :

US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Basic Requirement for civil engineering:

A.

Degree:

Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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), 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) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or 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 A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. 4. Related curriculum
• Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.

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