Civil Engineer; Geotechnical Specialty

Overview

Please note that this position is contingent upon the successful award of a contract currently under bid.

Nisga’a CIOPS delivers cleared professionals to support civilian and DoD customers worldwide across intelligence support, cyber/defensive cyber operations, IT O&M, infrastructure modernization, training, and logistics.

Summary:

The Civil Engineer (Geotechnical Specialty) serves as the senior geotechnical engineering authority responsible for evaluating site conditions, subsurface investigations, foundation recommendations, earthwork design, stormwater management, and site development for new Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) facilities. The incumbent provides expert guidance throughout planning, design, construction, and long-term facility development while ensuring engineering solutions comply with applicable codes, standards, environmental requirements, and life‑cycle performance objectives.

Essential Job Functions:

• Conduct technical evaluations of proposed project sites to determine suitability for facility construction.
• Analyze subsurface conditions including soil characteristics, groundwater conditions, slope stability, settlement potential, and bearing capacity.
• Develop and review foundation recommendations based on geotechnical investigations.
• Coordinate site grading, earthwork, excavation, retaining structures, drainage systems, and stormwater management designs.
• Review geotechnical engineering reports and civil site designs prepared by consultant A/E firms.
• Ensure engineering designs comply with applicable codes, standards, and accepted geotechnical engineering practices.
• Coordinate utility distribution layouts including domestic water, fire protection, wastewater, lift stations, storm drainage, and related infrastructure.
• Determine appropriate utility systems including gravity and force main wastewater systems, elevated and ground storage water systems, and related civil infrastructure.
• Serve as the technical authority for complex geotechnical engineering issues affecting construction feasibility, long‑term facility performance, and project costs.
• Develop engineering policies, standards, and design criteria governing site development and geotechnical engineering practices.
• Participate in Value Engineering (VE) workshops to improve site development strategies and reduce construction and operational costs.
• Review construction change orders, claims, and field conditions involving site development and geotechnical issues.
• Monitor construction activities to verify compliance with approved geotechnical recommendations and design requirements.
• Coordinate environmental studies, site investigations, and mitigation planning.
• Assist with procurement of utility service contracts and engineering consulting services.
• Develop construction cost estimates and analyze project costs related to earthwork, foundations, utilities, and site improvements.

Necessary Skills and Knowledge:

• Knowledge and mastery of advanced principles and practices of civil engineering and the related architectural and other engineering disciplines (structural, mechanical and electrical) and of construction methods and techniques that enables the employee to guide and lead the development and maintenance of technical civil engineering guidelines, standards and design criteria to support the overall program for development of complex institutional projects with a wide range of building types and construction methods, numerous participants, complex social and environmental issues, and involving unusual and difficult problems.
• Extensive knowledge of planning and engineering issues to the extent the employee can make design decisions related to these areas.
• Willingness to work with others as part of a team.
• Knowledge of site and building materials, site and building utility systems, and construction and installation techniques and of methods specifying their selection and use.
• Knowledge and skill in the reading and interpretation of construction documents, architectural and engineering drawings and technical specifications, and construction projects estimates.
• Knowledge of Federal and agency regulations and the…