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Explore a new career with the BLM - where our people are our greatest natural resource. For information on the city of Worland, please go to: Worland, WYOnePositionAvailable For information on the city of Rawlins, please go to: Rawlins, WYOnePositionAvailable
Major Duties
Major Duties include but not limited to:
- Serves as Chief of Party during complex land surveys
- Ability to conduct surveys involving problems of substantial variety and complexity
- Determines and implements appropriate resolutions to unforeseen conflicts or delays on individual projects
- Respond to public, state, and federal entities concerning interpretation of land surveys regardless of completion date
Physical Demands: Work is either in an office setting or out-of-doors involving extensive hiking, carrying heavy loads, and cutting and clearing brush and debris with axes, brush hooks, and chain saws
Work Environment: The work environment varies from an office setting to outdoors. Outdoor environment varies from:
- Flat, barren desert land or open prairie
- Extremely steep, rugged and broken mountains covered with dense brush and timber
- Temperatures fluctuate from extremely hot to uncomfortably cold
- At times, crews are required to work in rain and snow
Individuals are exposed to poisonous plants, snakes, insects, and most animals common to the outdoors
Qualifications
IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE,BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Your resume must contain enough information to show that you meet the specialized experience as defined in the announcement. In addition, your responses to the questions must be adequately reflected in your resume.
In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the specialized experience requirement. To be creditable,you must havecompleted a minimum of 52 weeks at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression (GS-09)OR- must have been equivalent in difficulty and complexity for the position to be filled.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience including: Volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social)
Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment
You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience
Your Resume MUST include total hours worked for each Volunteer Work experience Basic Entry Requirement: This position has a positive education requirement which requires that you have a degree in land surveying or civil engineering with a surveying option or emphasis. The civil engineering major must have included at least 6 semester hours of surveying, 3 semester hours of land law, and
21 additional semester hours in any combination of surveying, photogrammetry, geodetic surveying, geodesy, route surveying, remote sensing, cartography, survey astronomy, land information systems, computer-aided mapping, aerial photo interpretation, and
survey analysis and adjustments;-OR-
Combination of education and experience Specialized Experience for the GS-07 Land Surveyor: 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-05 level in land surveying related work. Working with federal and state laws, regulations, guidelines, and policies concerning cadastral surveys;
Experience reading and interpreting survey records with physical evidence to restore or reestablish obliterated corners;
Experience with legal principles as they apply to surface and subsurface (mineral) ownership boundary control. Operation, adjustment, and maintenance of surveying equipment and instruments, including global positioning systems, theodolites, and total stations
Preparing technical reports on routine survey situations; dealing diplomatically with landowners in explaining the purpose of a survey, to obtain knowledge as to existing property boundary control evidence, and to gain physical access to the vicinity of the survey
Work with software and tools used in electronic collection of survey data and creation of CAD drawings, and the ability to utilize word processing software for the preparation of draft field notes; OR
One year (18 semester hours) of graduate-level education in Land Surveying or Civil Engineering with surveying option/emphasis Specialized Experience for the GS-09 Land Surveyor: 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 level in land surveying related work. At this level, land surveyors independently perform recurring assignments that are more difficult & complex than those performed by a recent graduate. Leading a survey party on a single more complex surveying assignment utilizing a variety of survey equipment including total stations, data collectors, handheld calculators, and GPS receivers; OR
2 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a master`s degree or master`s or equivalent graduate degree in land surveying or civil engineering with a surveying option/emphasis;
OR have an equivalent combination of the type and level of experience and education described above Combination of education and experience -- Course equivalent to a major in land surveying or civil engineering as described above, plus appropriate experience or additional education;-OR- Current registration as a land surveyor in a State, territory, or the District of Columbia obtained by written examination
Such registration must have been obtained under conditions outlined in the National Council of Engineering Examiners (NCEE) Unified Model Law for Registration of Surveyors
Applicants wishing to be considered under this provision must show evidence of registration based on successful completion of the written examinations
Registrations granted prior to adoption of a registration law with qualification requirements equivalent to the NCEE Model law by the state, territory, or District of Columbia are not acceptable under this option
To be considered equivalent to the NCEE Model law, registration laws must include the four options listed within the NCEE Unified Model Law in the section specifying “General Requirements for Registration” as a Professional Land Surveyor
You will need to clearly state how your education meets the requirement, including any undergraduate/graduate degree(s) you have received, and submit your college transcripts or a listing of your college courses that includes hours and grades You must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
Federal employees in the competitive service are also subject to the Time-In-Grade requirement in accordance with 5 CFR 300.604.
If you are a current Federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled.
Pay Range
$43,251.00 - $68,777.00