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Civil Engineer (Geotechnical)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Posted 10 days ago
Hybrid Portland, OR $117K – $140K Apply by Jul 21, 2026 Civil Engineering ESTJINTJISTJISTP Engineering
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Direct Hire for DoD As a Geotechnical Engineer you will coordinate planning and design for a team of engineers, scientists and other professionals for a variety of project designs, unique one-time projects, and improvements to existing projects. You'll apply advanced knowledge of geotechnical engineering and general knowledge of structural, hydraulic and civil engineering to define the nature and scope of work, and to project assumptions and derive criteria from inconclusive or variable data.
What You'll Do
- →Coordinate or develop project scopes, including task outlines, schedules, and cost estimates.
- →Oversee tasks with team members and adjust project timetables or budgets as necessary.
- →Coordinate multi-discipline teams to produce design reports, memorandums, plans, specifications, and construction engineering.
- →Provide design criteria to the team and ensure that correct solutions and design procedures are utilized.
- →Apply geotechnical expertise to develop unique, cost-effective solutions that balance engineering correctness with environmental and economic realities.
- →Review all products produced by the team to ensure absolute correctness and completeness.
- →Coordinate project phases with other divisions, external agencies, and the public to ensure regulatory compliance and customer satisfaction.
- →Plan and deliver special presentations to higher authorities, peer review panels, and customers.
- →Provide advanced geotechnical engineering solutions and supporting documentation to other teams for unique projects or existing project repairs.
- →Perform independent technical reviews for designs produced in-house and for work performed by other districts.
Requirements
- ✓Individual Occupational Requirements: Basic Requirement for a Civil Engineer: A.
- ✓Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in 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: 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.
- ✓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.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
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