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Explore a new career with the BLM - where our people are our greatest natural resource. BLM is seeking a dynamic and energetic individual to join the seasonal team to serve as a Survey Aid/Technician for the Eastern Montana/Dakotas Distric office in Billings, Montana. Information about the Billings Area can be found at https://www.billingschamber.com/.Housing is not provided for this position. For additional information about the BLM, please visit Our Website.
Major Duties
Surveying work requires highly proficient operations of instruments and application of techniques to obtain required skills and accuracy. Surveying duties frequently include physically demanding tasks such as assisting Land Surveyors in setting survey monuments; this requires digging holes with shovels and rock bars for prolonged periods, sustained walking with heavy packs of instruments and equipment clearing timber and undergrowth, and driving vehicles over rough terrain. Positions may require frequent travel.
GS-03/04
Performs the full range of standardized survey support and limited technical survey duties. Performs the following duties of similar complexity including but not limited to: Functions as rodman on surveys using various types of rods. Serves as pacer of leveling party, determining in advance, position rodman will occupy. Records survey evidence and measurement dates, stellar observations of meridians and corner descriptions. Indexes field books. Operates transits, theodolites, electronic measuring equipment, satellite positioning instruments, and portable electronic calculators while serving on survey crews performing geodetic and control surveys. Computes with programmable calculator, simple survey calculations such as slope to horizontal distance reduction, summation of distances, azimuths, latitudes, and departure coordinates. Selects and marks bearing trees and bearing objectives. Oversees the setting of posts, construction of accessories, and marking of reference points.
GS-05
Performs the full range of survey aid/technical duties including but not limited to: May serve as principal assistant and occasional crew chief on survey crews, may assist in training and directing activities of other survey aids and technicians, gathers and records survey data, line running, and distance and angle measurement activities. Leads monumentation crew. Plans and directs corner monumentation crew in measurements for corner moves and ties to accessories. Assures proper procedures and methods are used in the monumentation of corners, markings of corners and accessories, and recording of data. Assists senior land surveyors in the reduction of data from raw field form to latitudes and departures for mathematical analysis. Reduces solar and stellar observations for determining azimuth. Reduces raw data in the field while progressing along the survey line. Prepares or reviews the preparation of field notes, random lined diagrams, and computations to determine whether closures are within prescribed lines of accuracy. Computes closures, corner moves, and proportionate measurements for the restoration of lost corners. Enters and retrieves data from automated databases.
Qualifications
In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the qualification requirements- please be sure to include this information in your resume.
GS-03: Six months of general experience;examples of general experience may include working in any professional, technical, or other responsible field that provided you with a familiarity of land surveying techniques. OR Successful completion of 1 year of postsecondary education that included at least one course in surveying, engineering, industrial technology, construction, physics, drafting, forestry, geography, navigation, cartography, physical science, or mathematics. OR A combination of experience and education to meet the total experience.GS-04:Six months of general experience and six months of specialized experience.Examples of general experience may include working in any professional, technical, or other responsible field that provided you with a familiarity of land surveying techniques.Examples of specialized experience: serving as rodman on surveys requiring special rodding procedures, using any of various types of rods, and selecting measuring or turning points in consideration of terrain and demands of the type of survey involved; and serving as pacer of a leveling party, going ahead of the party and determining in advance the positions the road crew will occupy so that shots will be balanced and instruments can be kept level.OR Successful completion of 2 years of postsecondary education that included at least 12 semester hours in any combination of courses such as those shown above for the GS-03 grade level.OR A combination of experience and education to meet the total experience.GS-05: One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-4 level. Examples of specialized experience may include conducting surveys, typically with an assistant, using hand instruments such as hand levels and compasses, making simple traverse surveys using compass and tape, measuring small land areas, using rod, tape and hand level, to obtain rough estimates of yardage to be excavated; and performing recording assignments which require concentration and specialized skill such as that required in making manual computations that involve elementary arithmetic processes made complex by virtue of the number and variety of manipulations involved and the speed with which successive readings are called.OR Successful completion of a full four year course of study leading to a bachelor’s degree from an accredited or pre-accredited institution a) with major study in an appropriate field such as surveying, engineering, construction, or industrial technology;or b) that included at least 24 semester hours in any combination of courses such as surveying, engineering, industrial technology construction, physics, drafting, forestry, geography, navigation, cartography, physical science or mathematics. OR a combination of experience and education tomeet the total experience.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.
Pay Range
$13.38 - $18.73