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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 visitOur website.This position is located in Vernal, Utah. Information about Vernal and the area can be found at here.
Major Duties
This position serves as an Air Quality Specialist for the Green River District. Major duties include but are not limited to:
- Develops the District air quality program and ensures that all Bureau activities are consistent with national and statewide policies and priorities.
- Coordinates the District’s overall climate and air quality programs (monitoring, modeling, permitting, and legal compliance) with state and federal regulatory agencies to ensure projects are consistent with all regulatory requirements.
- Provides technical guidance and mentoring to Field Office level natural resource specialists.
- Carries out and or approves air quality analysis for all projects with the potential to impact air or climate resources.
- Recommends mitigation measures to protect air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Writes and/or reviews air quality and climate change analysis for long range management plans, other NEPA documents, multiple use management proposals, and permitting.
- Prepares responses to air and climatic issues raised through administrative processes.
- Provides technical leadership to the Field Offices.
Physical demands: The work involves 25% or less outside work. Outside work demands climbing, hiking, bending often over rough uneven surfaces or mountainous terrain and sometimes in extreme weather and road conditions and at various times of the night.
Work Environment: The job involves a combination of office and field work as well as occasional travel. Field work is performed over a wide range of conditions. The field season generally runs from April through November. It will be necessary to conduct some studies in winter months. There is regular and recurring exposure to moderate risks and discomforts such as very low temperatures, adverse weather conditions, and similar situations.
Qualifications
BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENT: This position has a positive education requirement which requires that:
You must have a degree in physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics.ORCombination of education and experience:education equivalent to one of the majors shown above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
Youmustsubmit your transcripts thatclearly state your undergraduate/graduate degree(s) and submit your college transcripts.
In addition to meeting the basic education requirement, applicants must have specialized experience and/or directly related education of the position. 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, this experience must have been equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower gradeof the position to be filled.This experience must also be documentedin your resume.
In addition to the time-in-grade requirements, to qualify at the GS-12 level you must meet the following:
Specialized Experience:Applicants must possess one (1) full year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 level that equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of a Physical Scientist (Air Quality). Specialized experience includes;providing technical direction, coordination and support of research in climate and air quality; developing low impact air quality monitoring methods for development of policy on a state wide level; being a lead or member of an interdisciplinary team working on planning and environmental analysis processes, principles, and practices;and communicating technical and non-technical information to a diverse audience.
Please see "Required Documents" of this announcement.
IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE 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.
Pay Range
$76,721.00 - $99,741.00