Civil Engineer

About the Position: Serves as a Journey-Level Navigation/Civil Engineer conducting complex analysis, design, and technical reviews for inland navigation structures and systems, including locks, dams, guide walls, miter gates, and channels. Candidates selected from other USACE organizations may negotiate to remain duty-stationed at their current USACE facility under an inter-district MOU, maintaining integration with their current team. Major duties: Serve as a technical discipline engineer on multi-disciplinary Project Delivery Teams (PDTs), coordinating design tasks across functional areas and providing peer guidance and informal mentoring to lower-graded technical staff. Conduct detailed technical reviews of engineering analyses, feasibility studies, drawings, and specifications prepared by in-house teams or Architect-Engineer (A-E) firms to verify quality, constructability, and compliance with USACE standards. Develop and adapt plans, specifications, and design criteria for navigation structures—such as lock chambers, approach walls, and gate systems—by applying established methods and evaluating specialized riverine construction techniques. Serve as the technical lead for assigned design packages, specialized studies, and Design Documentation Reports (DDRs) for navigation rehabilitation and new construction projects. Act as a technical point of contact with sponsor Districts, Major Subordinate Commands (MSCs), and regional stakeholders while actively participating in USACE Communities of Practice (CoPs) to share lessons learned and best practices. Analyze and resolve complex, non-routine inland navigation engineering challenges using precedent and established criteria; elevates unprecedented policy or high-risk matters to senior leadership with recommended technical solutions.