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Civil Engineer
Mine Safety and Health Administration · Posted 57 days ago
Hybrid Pittsburgh, PA $56K – $120K Apply by Aug 20, 2026 Civil Engineering ESTJINTJISTJISTP Engineering
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This position is with Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Technical Support, Mine Waste & Geotechnical Engineering Division. MSHA works to prevent death, illness and injury from mining; promote safe and healthful workplaces for U.S. miners. MSHA carries out the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act) as amended by the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response (MINER) Act of 2006.
What You'll Do
- →The responsibilities described are for the full performance level GS-12.
- →At developmental grade levels, assignments will be of more limited scope performed with less independence, and limited complexity.
- →Employs basic and advanced engineering concepts and applied research techniques in executing duties and transfers the results of highly theoretical or complex studies to practical applications.
- →Review engineering plans for dams and other mine waste disposal facilities.
- →Evaluate problems in geotechnical engineering such as soil or rock slope stability, rockfalls, foundations, and retaining walls.
- →Analyze structural engineering problems related to the safety of mine structures such as preparation and processing plants, storage facilities, and bulkheads.
- →Analyze safety problems related to mining operations such as haul roads, subsidence, or mining near bodies of water.
- →Conduct field and accident investigations in areas of Division responsibility to make observations and collect data that will allow an assessment of conditions or the cause of an accident to be determined.
- →Develop and deliver technical training on topics related to the Division's mission.
- →Serve as an expert witness in both civil and criminal litigations to provide engineering expertise and services to defend the agency's position.
- →Advise the supervisor of developing issues and trends related to areas of Division responsibility.
- →Provide input to developing a strategy to correct the issue or improve the condition.
Requirements
- ✓You must meet the Basic Requirements to qualify for Civil Engineer GS-0810, as described below.
- ✓Transcripts must be submitted to verify education requirements.
- ✓Basic Requirement: 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: 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, and 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 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. 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.
- ✓(The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.) Any applicant falsely claiming an academic degree from an accredited school will be subject to actions ranging from disqualification from federal employment to removal from federal service.
Personality Fit
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