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Civil Engineer
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Posted 7 days ago
Hybrid New Orleans, LA $45K – $108K Apply by Sep 21, 2026 Civil Engineering ESTJESTPINTJISTJ EngineeringTrades
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This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: Serves as a construction manager within the Branch, with responsibility for the administration of contracts and the management of assigned civil works construction projects.
What You'll Do
- →Negotiates contract modifications and adjustments utilizing independent government estimates and cost analyses.
- →Evaluates design plans and specifications to ensure compliance with construction standards and policy.
- →Inspects active construction work to verify compliance with approved project specifications.
- →Determines the need for field modifications based on engineering feasibility and cost-effectiveness.
- →Drafts technical reports and work directives utilizing progress data compiled from construction records.
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.
- ✓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.
- ✓In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed in the Qualifications section of this announcement.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/
Personality Fit
Job ID: 82a201bd-c173-441b-b934-6df1a77aab05
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