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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 visit Our website. This position is located in Clovis, CA. Information about Location and the Location area can be found at Clovis, CA.
Major Duties
This position works under the Bureau's Branch of Cadastral Survey, Field Survey Section for Central California. This position performs a range of technical survey duties and may serve as a crew member or crew lead. Duties may include but are not limited to:
- Serves as an instrument person on a variety of survey types using transit, level, distance measuring device, alidade, and/or other specialized survey instruments.
- Measures distances between known points to determine azimuth and triangulation, reads distances, angles, and elevation levels between points.
- Prepares field notes, random lined diagrams, and computations to determine whether closures are within lines off accuracy.
- Responsible for the daily guidance of a field crew's operations, provides instruction to crew members, receives tasks from a higher level land surveyor.
- Assists land surveyors in the reduction of data from raw field form to latitudes and departure coordinates for mathematical analysis.
- Computes closures, inverse and proportional segments for restoring lost property corners.
- Determines equipment needs and ensures all safety requirements are fulfilled.
- Prepares or provides information necessary for administrative functions such as time and attendance, vehicle maintenance, accident reports, weekly progress reports.
- Safely operates a 4-wheel drive vehicle or ATV.
Physical Demands: Some of the work of the position is performed in an office however, there is also considerable field work involved in the performance this work. Field work requires long periods of time walking over steep and rough terrain, extremely dense brush, logging slash and tree covered terrain, often wet or occasionally covered with snow.
Work Environment: The work of this position is sometimes performed in an office setting with adequate lighting and temperatures. However, much of the work is performed outdoors. Exposure to extremes of hot, cold, rainy or snowy weather is common. The position requires operation of motor vehicles on narrow mountainous roads as necessary to get to and from job locations in the field. Protective gear is necessary for field work.
Qualifications
In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the specialized experience requirement - please be sure to include this information in your resume. To be creditable, this experience must have been equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade of the position.
GS-05: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-04 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.ORSuccessful completion of a full four year course of study leading to a bachelor’s degree with major study in an appropriate field such as surveying, engineering, construction, or 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.ORa combination of experience and education to meet the total experience.
GS-06: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-05 level. Examples of specialized experience may include; operating transits, levels, alidades, and other instruments on surveys of the third or fourth order of accuracy along clear, accessible routes, running short traverse lines from known points along unobstructed routes, running level circuits between benchmarks of known elevation following established or clearly designated routes; and selecting and recording descriptive data when complete, detailed survey notes are required. ORSuccessful completion of one full year of graduate education directly related to the work of the position.ORA combination of experience and education to meet the total experience.
GS-07: One year of specialized work experience equivalent to the GS-06 level. Examples of specialized experience may include;working as an engineering technician, soil conservation technician, or construction inspector; assisting in conductinggeodetic triangulation, making local measurement of azimuth, reference, and station marks; testing observing tower or stand for eccentricity and collimation; observing horizontal and vertical angles to targets; serving as instrument man on geodetic leveling surveys not complicated by conditions such as river crossings or steep grades requiring deviations from normal procedures.ORSuccessful completion of one full year of graduate education directly related to the work of the position.ORA combination of experience and education to meet the total experience.
Pay Range
$38,586.00 - $62,138.00