Supervisory Hydrologic Technician
What you'd do
What General Information Do I Need To Know About This Position? GS-12 Salary: $101,375.00 Per Year (Step 1) to $131,790.00 Per Year (Step 10) NOTE: First time hires to the Federal Government are typically hired at the Step 01.
Major duties
As a Supervisory Hydrologic Technician within the New England Water Science Center, some of your specific duties will include: Directs and coordinates continuous data processing and hydrologic records management, including use of the Site Information Management System (SIMS), Records Management System (RMS), and other digital tools to ensure timely and accurate finalization of Water Year records. Oversees hydrologic data-collection operations by ensuring field and office activities follow established methods, technical memoranda, Water-Supply Papers, TWRIs, and QA/QC protocols, including work requiring spatial accuracy and mapping-related procedures. Manages Section-level program planning and execution, including workforce coordination, fiscal stewardship, and operational oversight to maintain consistency with New England Water Science Center policies, procedures, and quality standards. Ensures proper oversight of ethics, conduct, and disciplinary matters by applying Departmental policies and procedures with precision to maintain a safe, lawful, and compliant work environment. Provides strategic leadership and supervision to ensure effective recruitment, hiring, retention, and workforce management practices, including accurate documentation to support EEO compliance, anti-harassment protections, and other statutory supervisory responsibilities. Conditions of Employment for this Position: As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest will be evaluated. This Probationary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: - your performance and conduct; - the needs and interests of the agency; - whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and - whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated. Upon completion of your probationary your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
What you need to qualify
Applicants must meet the following to qualify for the GS-12 level: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 in the Federal service. Examples of such experience may include: planning and conducting the computation and collection of data from approximately thirty or more gaging stations; determining stage-discharge relations, computing rating tables and mean daily, monthly and annual discharge rates from these stations. Acting as a party chief and making indirect measurements of flood flows under extremely difficult conditions. Collecting data including that required to compute flood flows by the slope-area method, by measurement of flow over dams, by flow through culverts and by flow over embankments. Obtaining hydrologic data from published and unpublished sources and conducting hydrologic studies relative to the frequency of flood and droughts. Planning and coordinating a ground water survey program for an area that may be either a small area with complex features or a larger area with planning and coordinating problems related to the scope of the ground water survey operations. You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements for the position by the closing date of the announcement.
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