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Civil Engineer (Geotechnical)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Posted 11 days ago
Hybrid Little Rock, AR $105K – $127K Apply by Jul 13, 2026 Civil Engineering ESTJINTJISTJISTP EngineeringTrades
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About the Position: This is a Civil Engineer/Geotechnical) GS-0810-12 position for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Southwestern Division, Tulsa District, Engineering and Construction Division in the Dam Safety Production Center - Tulsa (DSPC-T). Duty Location is Tulsa, Oklahoma. For additional information on USACE Tulsa District click Here Note: The vacancy can be filled at any of the locations listed on the announcement.
What You'll Do
- →Responsible for coordinating investigations, analyses, and design of earthen dams and levees, excavations, tunneling, de-watering, instrumentation, building foundations, and other highly complex projects.
- →Plan method of accomplishment and collaborates with other organization segments to determine scope and method of foundation and borrow explorations for earth dams, levees, building foundations, excavations, pavements, etc. for civil projects.
- →Direct compilation of exploration data for use on contract drawings and preparation of reports of field and laboratory investigations.
- →Analyze, and interpret test data furnished by laboratory from field tests and logs of borings, together with data secured by reconnaissance of job area and from the data used in the original design from the as-built plans and design folders.
- →Prepare quality assurance and design reports for these structures or foundations for preliminary investigations, survey reports, general design, final design, risk assessments, and Dam Safety Modification Reports (DSMR).
- →Determine the necessity for the methods of controlling seepage in, around, or beneath a structure, including size and details of drainage blankets, filter layers, cutoff trenches, and relief wells Review draft design memoranda, draft foundation design report, and draft contract specifications for soils and foundation features of projects.
- →Make field trips to investigate foundation preparation, earthwork construction, paving, cofferdams, and drainage problems of major civil projects.
- →Plans layout, details and directs installation of physical measurement devices such as piezometers, settlement gages, pressure gages, tilt-meters, slope indicators of inclinometers, uplift gages, etc.
Requirements
- ✓Basic Requirement for 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.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
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