Civil Engineer

**Duties**:
**As a Civil Engineer (Highway), you will**:
- Identify the need for, develop, and conduct technical training courses for internal and external customers. Work in concert with the National Highway Institute, state and local agencies, industry, professional associations, and educational institutions as necessary.
- Plan implementation efforts for highway construction initiatives and promote technological advances/technology transfer through facilitation of workshops and demonstration projects, technical review of state and local agency construction specifications, and drafting of technical documents/publications. Identify and pursue new partnerships, marketing approaches and customer participation.
- Review and implement technical construction and project management programs at the federal, state, and local levels. Evaluate FHWA recommendations for changes, as appropriate, to existing and proposed policies to improve technical program effectiveness and efficiency. Serve as a technical leader in developing engineering practices. Facilitate, coordinate, and impact national technical activities in the key construction and major project management disciplines.
- Provide innovative technical advice and program stewardship to assigned program areas in the field of contract administration and asset management. This includes providing interpretations of complex data, legislation and regulations, procedures, requirements, technological advancements and/or approaches as well as lending assistance on unusual and/or unique situations relative to highway construction contracts that have been resistant to resolution through normal approaches.
**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:
- You must be a U.S. citizen & meet specialized experience to qualify
- Required documents must be submitted by the closing date.
- Direct Hire Authority will be used to fill this position
**CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT**:
- **SELECTIVE SERVICE**: Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for the Selective Service.
- **GOVERNMENT TRAVEL CARD**: This position involves travel. A government contractor-issued travel card will be issued and must be retained for official business only.
- **PROBATIONARY PERIOD**: Applicants may be required to successfully complete a one-year probationary period (unless already completed).
- **REMOTE WORK**:This position may be eligible for remote work, which does not require reporting to the agency worksite location on a regular basis. If selected for a remote work location, you will be required to sign a remote work agreement detailing agency remote work policy requirements, working conditions, and expectations for the position.
**Qualifications**:
**A.** **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 the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); or (2) that included differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced that first year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials; (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials; and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics;
**OR**
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), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE).
- 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.
- Specified academic courses - Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences which included the courses as specified in Paragraph A above.
- 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 had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. There should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering type experience. This must be clearly described in your resume.
**For the GS-14**:You must have at least one year of experience, equal or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level