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What General Information Do I Need To Know About This Position? Salary for GS-11: $68,309 (Step 01) to $88,801 (Step 10); Salary for GS-12: $81,875 (Step 01) to $106,442 (Step 10); NOTE: First time hires to the Federal Government are typically hired atthe Step 01. There is one vacancy; however, this announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies if they become available.
Major Duties
As a Water Quality Hydrologist within the Oregon Water Science Center, some of your specific duties will include:
- Serves as a project leader or member of an interdisciplinary team to plan, direct, and carry out complex scientific studies or significant portions of very large studies.
- Develops investigative project proposals and develops work plans and protocols. This includes developing the overall nature, scope, and approach for water-resources investigations by evaluating and determining alternative approaches, data-collection methods, and analytical procedures used.
- Serves as consultant and advisor to supervisors and other scientists on matters pertaining to specialized knowledge, and assists in training inexperienced personnel in areas of expertise including techniques of data collection and analysis.
- Writes authoritative interpretive technical articles and reports that document the objectives, cope, approach, results, and conclusions of water-resource investigations or selected elements of such investigations.
- Attends, leads, and participates in meetings with cooperators, government agencies, private and professional organizations, and the general public to coordinate water-resource activities.
- Operates a government vehicle as an incidental driver.
Physical Demands:
Work assignments normally involve 90 percent office and 10 percent field effort. Office assignments are generally sedentary. Occasional physical activities required in field assignments, including walking, bending, stooping, and carrying stream gaging and chemical and biological sampling equipment. Field work may require lifting fairly heavy objects and wading in streams in all types of weather.
Work Environment:
Office assignments normally involve every day risk or discomforts that are typical of office meeting and training rooms, libraries, and residences or commercial vehicles. Work area is adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated. Field work may expose employee to potentially dangerous situations and exposure to moderate discomfort from such extremes as heat, cold, and inclement weather, particularly on flood trips during severe storms.
Qualifications
For information on basic qualifications, which includes information on whether you may substitute education for specialized experience, please click on the following: Hydrologist Series.
In addition to the basic education requirement listed in the link above, if you are qualifying based on specialized experience, you must meet the following:
For GS-11 -One year of appropriate professional experience in hydrology that is equivalent to at least the GS-09 level in the Federal service.
Examples of such experience include independent responsibility for a well-defined study or for a phase of a larger study that required the planning and carrying out of routine hydrologic work. This work would have required the individual to select and make minor adaptations to procedures and accepted practices and handle unexpected conditions arising in the normal course of the work. At this level, Hydrologists have a sound working knowledge of the principles of hydrology and the ability to independently perform moderately difficult and responsible scientific work.
For GS-12 - One year of appropriate professional experience in hydrology that is equivalent to at least the GS-11 level in the Federal service.
Examples of such experience include planning and executing complex hydrologic studies, which usually involved intensive investigations into recognized phenomena.This work typically involved conventional methods & techniques though it required going beyond clear precedents, and required adapting methods to the problems at hand and interpreting findings in terms of their scientific significance. At this level, Hydrologists have a very good knowledge of the principles of hydrology and their application, and the ability to independently perform scientific work of considerable difficulty.
You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements for the position by the closing date of the announcement.
Pay Range
$68,309.00 - $106,442.00