Supervisory Hydrologic Technician
What you'd do
This position is in the California Water Science Center located in Eureka, California.
Major duties
As a Supervisory Hydrologic Technician within the California Water Science Center, some of your specific duties will include: Initiates contacts with current and potential cooperators to explain or discuss cooperator waler-resources information needs. Develops funding estimates and detailed manpower plans for accomplishing projected work and manages overall budgets and daily operations. Responsible for the supervision or field office staff. Directs the collection, correlation, synthesis, analysis, preparation, review, and presentation of hydrologic data. Operate a government owned or leased vehicle as an incidental driver. Physical Demands: Field work is often conducted in extreme conditions. In the summer the heat is often over 100F, and in the winter storms bring high water and flooding conditions. Measurements must then be made in cold wet environments which require working in small boats on high velocity streams and from bridges with moving traffic. Safety requirements for PPE can complicate environmental conditions due to their bulky nature.
What you need to qualify
For GS-12: 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 Obtaining hydrologic data from published and unpublished sources and conducting hydrologic studies relative to the frequency of flood and droughts.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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