Grade VII
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General Characteristics
  • Uses creativity, foresight, and mature judgment to anticipate and solve new problems. 
  • Makes authoritative decisions and recommendations that impact organizational activities and culture.  
  • Sets priorities and reconciles directions from competing interests. 
  • Leads programs with complex features with work performed directly, or by others.
  • Integrates engineering economics and risk analysis into the solutions of complex civil engineering problems.
  • Integrates solutions to complex problems across specialty areas. 
  • Demonstrates ethical leadership, behavior, and decision making.
Technical Responsibilities
  • Develops standards and guidelines. 
  • Leads a program in the organization in their area of specialization. 
  • Develops appropriate design alternatives for complex civil engineering projects that consider realistic requirements, constraints, community input, permitting and other regulatory constraints.
  • Integrates advanced concepts, including sustainability, to solve complex problems.
Program, Project, and Task Management
  • Supervises a major organizational segment or several teams.  
  • Recommends facilities, personnel, and funds required to carry out programs. 
  • Oversees technical, legal, and financial issues of an entire program. 
  • Integrates these components into a complete project management plan for a complex civil engineering project.
  • Implements effective teamwork, leadership, and justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion principles into solutions for engineering problems. 
  • Determines program objectives and requirements. 
  • Develops organizational policies and procedures. 
Management, Supervision, and Guidance
  • Receives administrative supervision with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.
  • Implements staff development plans within their organizational segment, including technical, management, and leadership skills.
  • Advocates for and establishes professional attitudes within the organization.
  • Evaluates the effectiveness of leaders and teams, and their understanding and application of concepts of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Communication, Teamwork & Leadership
  • Possesses exceptional oral and written communication skills, including negotiation of critical issues. 
  • Integrates different forms of effective and persuasive communication to technical and nontechnical audiences. 
  • Demonstrates financial acumen and familiarity with legal issues related to engineering practice.
  • Initiates and maintains extensive contacts with key engineers and officials, or other organizations and companies.
  • Promotes justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion within their organizational segment.
  • Communications are characterized as strategic interactions between stakeholders with mutual awareness and interests.
Typical Titles

Director, Program Manager, City Engineer, County Engineer, Division Engineer, Department Head, Vice President
Experience
15+ years
Education
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering from ABET-EAC-accredited program
  • Master’s degree or equivalent.
  • Engaged in lifelong learning to maintain knowledge of contemporary issues.
  • Doctorate for faculty.
Licensure and Certification

Professional Engineer, Specialty Certification
Professional Activities
  • Member of professional practice organization, national Board member, or officer.  
  • Recognized expert on statewide activity.  
  • Resource for national activities and organizations.
Community Activities

Serves on local planning or policy boards.
Equivalent Federal General Schedule
GS-14