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Explore a new career with the BLM - where our people are our greatest natural resource. For additional information about the BLM, please visit Our website.This position will be located inWyoming, on average one week per month will be spent at the Wyoming State Office in Cheyenne. Duty Location in Wyoming will be negotiable after selection.
Major Duties
This position serves as a land surveyor in a Bureau of Land Management Office. The land surveyor will perform work which involves measurement of public lands, including establishing, investigating, and reestablishing land and property boundaries, including preparing plats and legal descriptions for plats of land; and work that involves knowledge and application of the principles of land surveying in combination with knowledge of land ownership laws.
Duties include serving as the State Office customer relations contact concerning major boundary surveys, land ownership issues, and other legal and technical matters related to Federal interest lands that affect recognized Indian Nations and other Federal agencies; planning, directing, documenting, and guiding complex surveys and boundary investigations; designing and collecting accurate geodetic data; acting as the first point of contact for Wyoming district and field offices to assist in planning and guiding their boundary location and other Standards for Boundary Evidence (SBE) needs per Department Manual 600 DM 5; preparing field notes of surveys in final form from field returns and preparing plats of surveys in near final form; serving as party chief of one or more survey crews; and researching and preparing responses to inquiries pertaining to cadastral surveys or official survey records and land ownership.
Qualifications
In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the specialized experience requirement - please be sure to include this information in your resume.To be creditable, this experience must have been equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade (GS-11) of the position to be filled.
Specialized Experience for the GS-12 Land Surveyor: 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 level in land surveyor related work. At this level, work assignments require the land surveyor to determine approaches and solutions to land surveying situations involving a variety of complicating factors; using judgment in modifying, adapting, and making compromises within standard guidelines; applying standard practices to new situations, relating the work to precedents; and communicating project status with interested parties. Examples: Technical experience with policies for the use and maintenance of GPS products
Experience writing technical documents for a wide variety of audiences
Identify and arrange developmental and training needs of employees
Maintain highest levels of technical expertise to ensure cadastral surveys are completed according to law and established technical and administrative standards
Act for supervisor as required, and is one of the supervisor’s principal assistants
Pay Range
$74,596.00 - $96,978.00