This position is located in a Kansas State or Area Office, USDA, Rural Development (RD). The incumbent performs assignments requiring professional experience/technical competence in civil engineering activities, procedures, principles, techniques, evaluations. This position is filled through the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Direct-Hire Authority for this occupation.
- Provide advisory and technical services in the engineering, planning and design process, as well as engineering, environmental and architectural management services for projects financed by RD loan and grant programs.
- Advise members of the engineering and architecture profession of Rural Development requirements in regard to the planning, design, drawings and specifications, advertisement for bids, negotiation and awarding contracts, and construction management.
- Review planning documents/Preliminary Engineering Reports (PER) and completed analyses and recommendations regarding the technical merit of applications for funding.
- Review and concur with Agreements for Engineering Services, construction project preliminary plans, drawings, designs, specifications and cost estimates.