The ten federal civil engineering openings collected in this run skew heavily toward positions that don't map onto a single named specialty like structural or water resources — postings labeled Civil Engineer, Interdisciplinary, Architect (Interdisciplinary), or a supervisory variant of those titles instead, spread across the Army, the Forest Service, and the Pacific Air Forces. This hub gathers the eight of them that fall into that general and interdisciplinary bucket: entry-to-mid-level Forest Service civil engineer roles doing road, trail, and facility design and inspection work across Arizona, Colorado, and Alabama; Army garrison facilities and project-engineering roles at Fort Campbell and Yuma Proving Ground; a depot-support civil engineer role at Red River Army Depot; a Cost Engineering Branch chief role at Redstone Arsenal; and an Air Force section-chief role managing requirements and budgeting for base civil engineering at Andersen Air Base. What connects them is breadth rather than a shared technical focus: none of these positions is defined by a single design discipline the way a structural or water-resources engineer's job is, and several explicitly combine design, cost estimating, contract oversight, and personnel or program management inside one role.
Pay in this batch ranges from roughly $50,460 at entry-level Forest Service and depot postings up to $170,289 for the Redstone Arsenal branch-chief role, reflecting the spread between full-performance-level field engineering and senior supervisory leadership rather than any single discipline's market rate. Licensure requirements vary correspondingly: several of the field-level Forest Service and Army postings do not list a Professional Engineer license as a hard requirement, though it remains the practical credential for advancement into independent design and inspection authority, while the more senior supervisory and cost-engineering roles weight program-management and cost-estimating certifications (such as AACE's CCP or CMAA's CCM) at least as heavily as a state PE. Several of these agencies — the Army in particular — use Direct Hire Authority to fill some of these roles, a mechanism that lets a federal agency bypass standard competitive-service rating-and-ranking timelines for occupations where vacancy rates are outpacing normal hiring speed, a signal of sustained federal demand for civil engineers comfortable moving between technical design work and administrative functions like cost estimating, contract administration, and program management rather than staying in a single design lane.