Job Summary

You will function as a Survey Technician with the Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, Engineering and Construction Division, located in Nashville, TN.

Major Duties

Qualifications

Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. External Recruitment Military Spouse PreferenceInteragency Career Transition Assistance Plan In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. To qualify at the GS-07 grade level, you must have: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience in Land Surveying as a rodman and/or instrument person assisting in performing topographic, boundary, cadastral/geodetic, terrestrial laser scanning, UAS/UAV, construction staking, river and stream cross-section surveys, and monitoring surveys, as well as all other types of surveys. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-06); OR Education: One full year of graduate level education in a field directly related to the work of the position, such as Surveying Technology; OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) by 18. Add the two percentages. To qualify at the GS-08 grade level, you must have: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience in Land Surveying as a rodman and/or instrument person and/or survey party chief providing minimal assistance in performing topographic, boundary, cadastral/geodetic, terrestrial laser scanning, UAS/UAV, construction staking, river and stream cross-section surveys, and monitoring surveys, as well as all other types of surveys. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07); OR Education: One and a half years of graduate level education in a field directly related to the work of the position, such as Surveying Technology; OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the first year (total semester hours minus 18) by 9. Add the two percentages. To qualify at the GS-09 grade level, you must have: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which experience in Land Surveying as a survey party chief performing topographic, boundary, cadastral/geodetic, terrestrial laser scanning, UAS/UAV, construction staking, river and stream cross-section surveys, and monitoring surveys, as well as all other types of surveys without the assistance of others.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07); OR Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this grade level, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

Customer ServiceOral CommunicationSurveyingTechnical Competence

Pay Range

$43,251.00 - $68,777.00

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