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Major Duties
As a Supervisory Hydrologist within the South Atlantic Water Science Center, some of your specific duties will include:
- Develop training program to build and improve scientists’ skill sets.
- Initiate and maintain strong relationships with Federal, state, and local agencies.
- Inform cooperators of potential scientific needs.
- Manage project budgets and work plans and lead/mentor staff.
- Write scientific reports.
- Operate a government vehicle.
Physical Demands:
Primarily sedentary, with some field work. Occasional physical activities required in field assignments include walking, bending, stooping, and carrying scientific equipment. Field work may occasionally require lifting heavy objects and wading in streams in all types of weather.
Work Environment:
Work is performed in an office environment, with some travel to attend meetings or review field operations. Office assignments normally involve every day risk of 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 hydrologist to potentially dangerous situations and to moderate discomfort from such extremes as heat, cold, and inclement weather.
Qualifications
For information on basic qualifications, which includes information on whether you may substitute education for specialized experience, please click on the following: https://www.usgs.gov/about/organization/science-support/human-capital/hydrologist-gs-1315 For
In addition to the basic education requirement as stated above, applicants must have one year of appropriate professional experience in hydrology that is equivalent to at least the GS-12 level in the Federal service.
Examples of such experience include planning, executing and reporting on original hydrologic studies or ongoing hydrologic studies requiring a fresh approach to resolve new problems. The complexity of this work typically required extensive modification and adaptation of standard procedures, methods, and techniques, and the development of totally new methods and techniques to address novel or obscure problems for which guidelines or precedents were not substantially applicable. At this level, Hydrologists have extensive knowledge of the principles of hydrology and highly developed ability in their application, and wide latitude for the exercise of independent judgment to perform scientific work of marked difficulty and responsibility.
You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements for the position by the closing date of the announcement.
Pay Range
$92,017.00 - $119,619.00