CIVIL ENGINEER (STRUCTURAL) at Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command — Ventura, CA

This posting is a 'public notice flyer,' a federal hiring mechanism distinct from an actual vacancy announcement: NAVFAC uses it to build a pool of interested, pre-qualified applicants for a role it anticipates needing to fill, but no application submitted against it guarantees a real opening exists yet, and applicants who respond won't receive a formal notice of result the way they would for a live vacancy. The underlying work, when a vacancy does open, is structural engineering proper — a narrower discipline than the general civil engineer and facilities engineer roles elsewhere in this batch — covering structural design analysis and calculations for Navy facilities, technical review of design-build contractor submittals and shop drawings, and preparation of final working drawings, cost estimates, and Requests for Proposals across a wide range of facility types. Ventura sits within earthquake country, and NAVFAC structural engineers working on California installations have to design and review against seismic loading in a way that counterparts in most other states don't, which is part of why California is also one of the few states with a separate Structural Engineer (SE) license tier above the standard PE for certain building categories — worth checking against this specific role's building types before assuming a standard PE is sufficient. NAVFAC Southwest, headquartered in San Diego with facilities engineering commands spread across California's naval installations (Point Mugu and Port Hueneme are both near Ventura), is the dominant structural-engineering employer in this part of the state for anyone specializing in military facility design rather than commercial or residential structural work. Compared to the general civil engineer postings in this batch, the difference is depth versus breadth: this role owns one technical discipline — structural analysis and design — in detail, rather than spanning planning, construction oversight, and contract administration the way a general facilities civil engineer does.