CIVIL ENGINEER

About the position: Serves as a senior level Civil Engineer and Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) responsible for Construction Contract Administration in the Operations Branch, Water Resources Division, performing a full range of office engineering activities, as well as some field activities, associated with construction operations with authorities prescribed by the Contracting Officer.

As a senior level Civil Engineer, oversees all field and office engineering functions for assigned projects.

Plans, schedules, monitors, and controls the full range of construction operations for assigned projects.

Oversee's construction at all stages to identify problems and to take corrective action

Chairs pre-construction environmental, safety and quality contract conferences.

Reviews and approves contractors’ progress schedules.

Chairs pre-construction work conferences at which scheduling of work is coordinated with federal, state, and local industry officials.

Analyzes contractors’ requests for equitable adjustment and claims and helps prepare finding of facts for Contracting Officer’s decisions.

Conducts and/or participates in meetings and conferences related to project activities including design review conferences with in-house and A-E designers, using agency representatives, and other Federal agencies

Assumes responsibility for administering safety programs (i.e., those of the District, OSHA, Fed OSHA, and BRAC IBCT Office)

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications.