Civil Engineer at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — Albuquerque, NM

Like several other Corps of Engineers postings from this batch, this Albuquerque District role is being filled under Direct Hire Authority, though the day-to-day work here looks different from a coordination or contract-management position — this is hands-on, district-level civil engineering support that spans civil works, military construction, and the district's international-service, emergency-operations, and environmental programs, which is a wider portfolio than a single-project design engineer would typically carry. Core responsibilities include producing early engineering work in-house — reconnaissance-level studies, feasibility analysis, and construction plans — drafting the scope-of-work documents, technical appendices, and cost estimates that Architect-Engineer contracts get built from, and then, once a contract is awarded, serving as Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) — the government's on-the-ground authority for keeping a contract on schedule and sorting out technical problems as they come up during execution. The engineer also stands in for the district at meetings with outside local, state, and federal stakeholders covering project timelines and requirements, and physically walks active construction sites checking that the work matches design intent, which means this role moves between a desk (studies, designs, cost estimates) and the field (inspections, stakeholder meetings) more than a purely design-focused position would. Albuquerque's civil engineering market is shaped by the Southwest's chronic water-scarcity issues and the Corps' regional dam, levee, and flood-control portfolio along the Rio Grande, which keeps district-level civil works engineering demand steady even though New Mexico's private-sector construction market is comparatively small. The clearest way to separate this role from the Chicago AE-Manager or Memphis AE-Coordinator postings in this same batch is scope of authority: those roles manage contracts and quality from above; this one is closer to the engineer actually producing the design and then personally administering the resulting contract in the field as COR.