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Explore a new career with the BLM - where our people are our greatest natural resource. BLM is seeking a dynamic and energetic individual to join our team to serve as a Civil Engineer for the Montana/Dakotas State Office, Eastern Montana/Dakotas District, Division of Support Services, located in Miles City, Montana. Information about the Miles City area can be found athttps://milescitychamber.com/.
Major Duties
This position is responsible for performing work that involves the knowledge and application of the principles civil engineering and includes all aspects of project development and construction. The incumbent is responsible for performing a variety of duties including, but not limited to, the following:
- Provides professional engineering, construction, and maintenance expertise for the District's administration sites, recreation sites, roads, building, dams, and bridges as well as range, watershed, recreation, wildlife, and other program activities.
- Prepares cost and time estimates, work schedules, cost/benefit analyses, and feasibility studies for construction, maintenance, and land treatment contracts.
- As Contracting Officer's Representative, prepares and monitors contract progress reports, change orders, modification justifications, and miscellaneous correspondence. Interprets contract specifications and drawings and inspects contractor work making final engineering determinations regarding methods and materials.
- Provides input into technical examinations, environmental analyses, and environmental impact statements for District actions. Prepares technical engineering and environmental protection stipulations as required for District actions.
- Operates automated drafting, mapping, GPS, GIS, and other software specific to the performance of Civil Engineering duties to complete professional drawings from topographic (and other surveys), site, building, and building systems plans.
Qualifications
Basic Education Requirements:This position has a positive education requirement. Applicants must meet one of the following basic education requirements: Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronicsOR
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 1.4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. 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.) Specialized Experience Requirements:
For the GS-11: In addition to meeting the basic education requirement, you must possess one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 level that is similar in difficulty and complexity as indicated by all of the following examples: providing engineering, construction, and maintenance expertise for the layout, location, and design of roads, buildings, wells, pipelines, dams, and culverts; preparing cost and time estimates for civil construction and maintenance projects; determining whether civil construction progress complies with contracts through inspection; operating automated drafting, mapping, GPS, GIS, and other software to complete professional civil drawings.
For the GS-09:In addition to meeting the basic education requirement, you must possess one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 level that is similar in difficulty and complexity as indicated by at least three of the following examples:providing engineering, construction, and maintenance expertise for the layout, location, and design of roads, buildings, wells, pipelines, dams, and culverts; preparing cost and time estimates for civil construction and maintenance projects; determining whether civil construction progress complies with contracts through inspection; operating automated drafting, mapping, GPS, GIS, and other software to complete professional civil drawings.
IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOTMAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.Federal employees in the competitive service are also subject to the Time-In-Grade requirement in accordance with 5 CFR 300.604. If you are a current Federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled.
Pay Range
$52,905.00 - $83,210.00