Us Forest Service Jobs – Civil Engineer

Job Description:

This position is in the National Forest System, National Technology & Development Program Office. Civil Engineers perform duties related to the preparation of civil engineering designs, plans and specifications for new construction of bridges, structures, culverts, and other facilities and to improve utility, quality and appropriateness and appearance of construction.

Job Responsibilities:

• Evaluates design plans and layouts prepared by others prior to start of construction.
• Evaluates facility plans and design objectives including conducting surveys and investigations to establish the necessary data to initiate facility designs.
• Directs or reviews the preparation of completed and detailed designs, drawings, and specifications for projects such as roads, trails, bridges, or other miscellaneous facilities and structures.
• Provides direction to others in the principles of planning, designing, operation, maintenance, monitoring, and inspection of engineering facilities.
• Develops, manages, implements and provides technical advice on all aspects of complex or unusual facility maintenance and engineering projects.
• Serves as Engineering Representative (ER) or as Contracting Officer?s Representative (COR), providing professional engineering expertise, technical advice, recommendations, and suitable alternatives to the
• Contracting Officer and Agency officials.
• Gives advice and guidance in the preparation and issuance of construction contracts, and for resolving controversial issues/problems before and during construction.
• Reviews and provides input into new, proposed, or revised forest and regional policy direction concerning engineering.
• Participates with the unit leadership to provide necessary information pertaining to engineering design projects.
• Provides direction to others in the principles of planning, designing, operation, maintenance, monitoring, and inspection of engineering facilities.
• Responsible for giving advice and guidance in the preparation and issuance of construction contracts, and for resolving controversial issues/problems before and during construction.
• Conducts safety inspections and condition surveys of structures and facilities such as buildings, water and wastewater systems, recreation site facilities, and utilities according to agency requirements.

Qualification & Experience:

• 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 electronics. OR
• 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.

Job Details:

Company: U.S. Forest Service

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: San Dimas, CA, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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