SUPERVISORY CIVIL ENGINEER

Bureau of Reclamation; Lakewood (CO); Remote; USD 140,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Bureau of Reclamation in Lakewood, CO seeks a Supervisory Civil Engineer to oversee planning, design, and construction for heavy-civil and power projects. The role includes directing staff, managing stakeholder communications, and ensuring technical quality, cost control, and schedules.

Remote telework is eligible; the posting notes a salary range of $140,239 to $182,316 per year, with a closing deadline of 2026-11-16. Applicants open under Fed Transition path are welcome.

Qualifications

• Civil Engineering: knowledge of analyses, designs, drawings, proposals, scopes of work, specifications, and cost estimates for heavy-civil and power generation projects.
• Supervise, coach, mentor, develop, and evaluate staff to build capability and ensure high performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead decision making, change management, and stakeholder communication to ensure mission success.
• Plan, organize, and allocate resources to execute projects and group workload effectively.
• Monitor, evaluate, and oversee project execution to ensure technical quality, cost control, schedule adherence, and compliance with standards.
• Lead project decision making, issue resolution, and continuous improvement to support mission success.

Skills

Civil Engineering

Staff supervision

Project planning

Stakeholder communication

Cost estimation

Job description

You will serve as a SUPERVISORY CIVIL ENGINEER with Bureau of Reclamation. Location - Lakewood, CO

Key Responsibilities

• -Civil Engineering: Knowledge of the concepts, principles, theories, and methods required to prepare analyses, designs, drawings, proposals, scopes of work, specifications, and cost estimates for heavy-civil and power generation projects throughout the planning, design, and construction phases.
• -Supervise, coach, mentor, develop, and evaluate staff to build capability and ensure high performance.

• -Lead decision making, change management, and stakeholder communication to ensure mission success.
• -Plan, organize, and allocate resources to execute projects and group workload effectively.
• -Monitor, evaluate, and oversee project execution to ensure technical quality, cost control, schedule adherence, and compliance with standards.
• -Lead project decision making, issue resolution, and continuous improvement to support mission success.

Requirements & Education

This position does not allow substituting education for experience. Foreign Education: To receive credit for education completed outside the United States, you must show proof that the education has been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and such education has been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs. Recognition of Foreign Qualifications | U.S.

Department of Education. How do I receive credit for a college degree obtained in a foreign university in another country? - OPM.gov Applicants must submit all necessary documents to a private U.S. organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials, commonly called a credential evaluation service.

To be acceptable, the foreign credential evaluation must include/describe: The type of education received by the applicant; The level of education in relation to the U.S. education system, and state that its comparability recommendations follow the general guidelines of the International Education Standards Council; The content of the applicant's educational program earned abroad and the standard obtained; The status of the awarding foreign school's recognition and legitimacy in its home country's education system; and Any other information of interest such as what the evaluation service did to obtain this information, the qualifications of thee valuator, and any indications as to other problems such as forgery.

Foreign credential evaluations that do not contain the above information or that state there is insufficient information provided by the applicant on which to base an evaluation should not be accepted. If the requested evaluation shows the foreign education to be legitimate and comparable to that expected of a candidate with U.S. credentials, it may be accepted at the discretion of the agency.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $140239 – $182316/yr.

Is this position remote or telework eligible?

This position is eligible for telework.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-11-16.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.