Supervisory Hydrologic Technician
What you'd do
This position is in the Northwest Pacific Island Reg in the Field Office. Filling one vacancy in each of the following locations: Honolulu, HI Kennewick, WA Ferndale, WA The official worksite for the selectee is the duty station identified in this vacancy announcement. The selectee will typically report to this duty location on a regular and recurring weekly basis.
Major duties
As a Supervisory Hydrologic Technician within the NW- Pacific Island Reg, Field Office, some of your specific duties will include: - Leads and oversees hydrologic data collection, computation, analysis, and dissemination for surface-water, groundwater, sediment, and water-quality monitoring networks, ensuring products meet U.S. Geological Survey technical standards, Fundamental Science Practices, and mission requirements. - Provides expert technical consultation to colleagues, interpretive-study staff, and managers on local hydrologic conditions, network design, instrumentation issues, and difficult water-data collection problems requiring unique or modified approaches. - Applies advanced hydrologic and hydraulic methods, including complex rating development, velocity-index methods, indirect peak-flow measurements, and nonstandard computational approaches to resolve data anomalies and support flood response, water management, and scientific interpretation. - Serves as a technical authority for hydrologic data collection and computation, reviews staff work, and ensures hydrologic data and products provided to the public and cooperating agencies are accurate, timely, defensible, and consistent with U.S. Geological Survey policies, national standards, and Fundamental Science Practices. - Serves as the technical authority for hydrologic records by reviewing, analyzing, and approving continuous and discrete data; ensuring quality assurance and quality control of time-series records processed in Aquarius Time-Series or similar systems; and supporting timely release of defensible hydrologic information to customers and the public. - Supervises a multi-grade staff of hydrologic technicians by planning and assigning work, setting priorities and schedules, reviewing technical and administrative work products, evaluating performance, resolving complaints, and providing day-to-day guidance on work and personnel matters. - Develops staff through mentoring, coaching, cross-training, and identification of developmental needs, while promoting teamwork, accountability, safety, merit system principles, and equal employment opportunity in daily operations. - Selects and evaluates sites for gaging stations, groundwater wells, and water-quality monitoring locations; oversees the design, installation, maintenance, calibration, and repair of hydrologic monitoring infrastructure and associated field equipment and telemetry systems. - Builds and maintains effective working relationships with Federal, Tribal, State, and local partners by organizing cooperator meetings, responding to data and program inquiries, communicating hydrologic conditions and program status, and helping develop work plans and proposals that address water-resources information needs. - Plans and manages field-office operations by developing work plans, staffing and funding estimates, monitoring expenditures and commitments, and aligning travel, equipment, and personnel resources with changing program priorities and available budgets. Physical Demands: Field work is conducted year-round in a wide range of environmental and weather conditions across Washington and Hawaiʻi. Conditions may include high heat and humidity, heavy rain, cold temperatures, snow and ice, strong winds, and rapidly changing streamflow during storms and floods. Work may require travel over steep, uneven, slippery, or otherwise difficult terrain; working in and around swift or deep water; operating from small boats; and making measurements from bridges with moving traffic. Field duties frequently involve lifting and carrying equipment, prolonged standing or walking, climbing, and working in remote locations. Required personal protective equipment may be bulky or restrictive and can add to the physical demands associated with heat, cold, precipitation, and other field conditions.
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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