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Supervisory Civil Engineer (Hydraulic/Hrdrologic)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Posted 60 days ago
Hybrid Portland, OR $130K – $158K Apply by Jul 30, 2026 Civil Engineering ESTJINTJISTJISTP Engineering
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Direct Hire Authority for Certain Personnel of the DoD. As Chief of the River and Hydrologic Engineering Section you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and advising on hydrologic and river hydraulic projects. Many projects require sophisticated statistical modeling procedures. Results affect the planning, development and/or operation of projects including major multi-million dollar multi-purpose projects, providing flood control, hydro-power, recreation and navigation benefits.
What You'll Do
- →Serve as the District's principal expert for hydrologic and river engineering, responsible for defining, clarifying, and setting technical criteria for complex projects.
- →Manage all assigned functions and studies in the areas of hydrology and river hydraulics for both the Portland District and external customers.
- →Supervise the Flood Plain Management Services Program and the Silver Jackets Program.
- →Plan, schedule, direct, and coordinate all technical activities, projects, and workflow for the River and Hydrologic Engineering Section.
- →Perform comprehensive personnel administration, including assigning work, setting performance standards, preparing formal evaluations, and implementing disciplinary actions.
- →Provide expert guidance and information to subordinates to resolve the most complex technical problems where established criteria may not be applicable.
- →Formulate and determine the section's official technical approach, including methods for calculations, field studies, data analysis, and advanced modeling.
- →Coordinate with other branches, divisions, and technical elements to resolve major controversies and integrate the section's work with other engineering disciplines.
- →Conduct long-range planning for future workload adjustments, emergency requirements, and organizational improvements to optimize efficiency.
- →Promote and administer a variety of management programs within the section, including safety, EEO, cost reduction, and employee incentive awards.
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/
Personality Fit
Job ID: 100013a2-d8c5-44d3-93d6-626c4fd81c2c
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