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Civil Engineer
Agriculture, Rural Development · Posted 2 days ago
Hybrid Champions Gate, FL $90K – $116K Apply by Jul 1, 2026 Civil Engineering ESTJINTJISTJISTP Engineering
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This position is located in an Area or State Office, USDA, Rural Development (RD). The incumbent performs a variety of assignments requiring professional experience and technical competence in civil engineering activities, procedures, principles, techniques and evaluations utilized in the performance of supervised rural credit and development programs. There are 3 vacancies total. One Civil Engineer position will be filled in each state identified in the announcement.
What You'll Do
- →Advises and consults with private groups, public bodies and state and/or Federal agencies on the civil engineering aspects of projects financed by RD loan and grant programs.
- →Provides professional and technical guidance to a variety of customers for project eligibility and priority.
- →Reviews and concurs with Agreements for Engineering Services, construction project preliminary plans, drawings, designs, specifications and cost estimates.
- →Assists staff in any technical or construction-related matters.
- →Trains consulting engineers on RD policies and requirements.
- →Works with staff, applicants and their consultants with respect to the suitability of proposed PERs as well as other documents associated with applications for funding and projects approved for funding.
Requirements
- ✓A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education Basic Requirements: A.
- ✓Degree: Engineering.
- ✓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: 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.
- ✓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.
- ✓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.
- ✓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.)
Personality Fit
Job ID: 78bc1295-1228-48d3-9b1e-154c3f090b1a
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