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Lead Civil Engineer
Agriculture, Rural Development · Posted 18 days ago
Hybrid Amherst, MA $120K – $156K Apply by Jun 29, 2026 Civil Engineering ESTJINTJISTJISTP Engineering
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This vacancy announcement is open to current Rural Development (RD) Employees only. This position is located in the State Office in Amherst, MA. The purpose of the Lead Civil Engineer is to provide advisory and technical services in the engineering, planning and design process, as well as engineering and environmental protection management services for projects financed by Rural Development (RD) loan and grant programs.
What You'll Do
- →Advise and assist on the various engineering aspects of RD Housing and Business programs including the Rural Business-Cooperative Service’s energy loan and grant proposals.
- →Communicates team assignments, deadlines and time frames for completion; ensures organization mission and vision are communicated to the team; provides advice on work methods; identifies, distributes and balances workload.
- →Advises members of the engineering profession of RD requirements in regard to the planning, design, drawings and specifications, advertisement for bids, negotiation and awarding contracts, and construction management.
- →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: 251ac121-d070-40da-89d6-32225546ea78
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