Duties
As a Supervisory Hydrologic Technician within the NW- Pacific Island Reg, Field Office, some of your specific duties will include:
- Leads and oversees hydrologic data collection, computation, analysis, and dissemination for surface-water, groundwater, sediment, and water-quality monitoring networks, ensuring products meet U.S. Geological Survey technical standards, Fundamental Science Practices, and mission requirements.
- Provides expert technical consultation to colleagues, interpretive-study staff, and managers on local hydrologic conditions, network design, instrumentation issues, and difficult water-data collection problems requiring unique or modified approaches.
- Applies advanced hydrologic and hydraulic methods, including complex rating development, velocity-index methods, indirect peak-flow measurements, and nonstandard computational approaches to resolve data anomalies and support flood response, water management, and scientific interpretation.
- Serves as a technical authority for hydrologic data collection and computation, reviews staff work, and ensures hydrologic data and products provided to the public and cooperating agencies are accurate, timely, defensible, and consistent with U.S. Geological Survey policies, national standards, and Fundamental Science Practices.
- Serves as the technical authority for hydrologic records by reviewing, analyzing, and approving continuous and discrete data; ensuring quality assurance and quality control of time-series records processed in Aquarius Time-Series or similar systems; and supporting timely release of defensible hydrologic information to customers and the public.
- Supervises a multi-grade staff of hydrologic technicians by planning and assigning work, setting priorities and schedules, reviewing technical and administrative work products, evaluating performance, resolving complaints, and providing day-to-day guidance on work and personnel matters.
- Develops staff through mentoring, coaching, cross-training, and identification of developmental needs, while promoting teamwork, accountability, safety, merit system principles, and equal employment opportunity in daily operations.
- Selects and evaluates sites for gaging stations, groundwater wells, and water-quality monitoring locations; oversees the design, installation, maintenance, calibration, and repair of hydrologic monitoring infrastructure and associated field equipment and telemetry systems.
- Builds and maintains effective working relationships with Federal, Tribal, State, and local partners by organizing cooperator meetings, responding to data and program inquiries, communicating hydrologic conditions and program status, and helping develop work plans and proposals that address water-resources information needs.
- Plans and manages field-office operations by developing work plans, staffing and funding estimates, monitoring expenditures and commitments, and aligning travel, equipment, and personnel resources with changing program priorities and available budgets.
Physical Demands: Field work is conducted year-round in a wide range of environmental and weather conditions across Washington and Hawai?i. Conditions may include high heat and humidity, heavy rain, cold temperatures, snow and ice, strong winds, and rapidly changing streamflow during storms and floods. Work may require travel over steep, uneven, slippery, or otherwise difficult terrain; working in and around swift or deep water; operating from small boats; and making measurements from bridges with moving traffic. Field duties frequently involve lifting and carrying equipment, prolonged standing or walking, climbing, and working in remote locations. Required personal protective equipment may be bulky or restrictive and can add to the physical demands associated with heat, cold, precipitation, and other field conditions.
Required Documents
Required documents may be: (1) uploaded directly from your desktop; or (2) uploaded directly from your USAJOBS stored attachments.
Resume
Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. Headers may be slightly larger but must remain legible. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or attachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications.
Supporting documents
--Upload any supporting documents identified in the Key Requirements section or included below as it applies to your eligibility. Supporting documents may be: (1) uploaded directly from your desktop; or (2) uploaded directly from your USAJOBS stored attachments.
Transcripts
--This position requires specific educational course work to qualify, or you are qualifying based in whole or part on education, you are required to provide all unofficial transcripts (undergraduate, graduate, etc.), which includes semester hours earned and grade received, by the closing date of this announcement or you will be disqualified from further consideration. Please ensure that all documentation is legible.
Due Weight for Performance
--Please submit 1) a copy of your most recent performance appraisal/evaluation and 2) a list of any awards (e.g. superior performance awards, special act or achievement awards, quality step increase, etc.) you received in the last 5 years. Any performance appraisal/evaluation and award documentation you provide will be forwarded to the selecting official. The selecting official will review this documentation and give it due weight consideration during the overall selection process. Due weight for performance applies to federal and non-federal work. If you do not have your most recent performance appraisal/evaluation, please submit a statement as to why it is not available. Please indicate if any prior performance appraisals/evaluations were at an acceptable level.
Current & Former Federal Employees
--If you are a current career or career-conditional Federal employee OR a former Federal employee who has reinstatement eligibility, you must submit a copy of a recent SF-50 "Notification of Personnel Action" documenting proof of competitive status, tenure, position title, occupational series, grade level and step by the closing date of this announcement, or you will not receive consideration.
Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) Eligibles
--If you are claiming CTAP/ICTAP eligibility, the Servicing Human Resources Office must receive proof by the closing date of this announcement that you meet the requirements of 5 CFR 330 Subpart F for CTAP and 5 CFR 330 Subpart G for ICTAP or you will not receive priority consideration. This includes:
- copy of the agency notice;
- your most recent Performance Rating; and
- your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location.
If you are a CTAP eligible, you will be considered well qualified if you earn a minimum score of 85 (prior to the assignment of veteran's preference points). For more information on CTAP please click here.
Eligibility for Special Appointing Authorities
If you are applying for this position based on eligibility under a special appointing authority, you must submit proof that supports your claim by the closing date of the announcement. If you fail to submit proof, you will not receive consideration under the special appointing authority. Below is a list of the most common authorities and the documentation requirements. If you're eligible for an authority not listed, you are responsible for submitting documentation that's appropriate for that specific authority. Additional information for all the authorities below can be found on the USAJobs Hiring Paths page.
--30% or More Disabled Veteran - Submit a legible copy of your DD-214, Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty, member 4 copy; and an official statement from the Department of Veterans Affairs (dated 1991 or later) or from a branch of the Armed Forces certifying the existence of a service-connected disability, etc.
--Individuals with Disabilities - Submit documentation issued by a licensed medical professional; a licensed vocational rehabilitation specialist; or any Federal agency, State agency, or an agency of the District of Columbia or a U.S. territory that issues or provides disability benefits.
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS CONTINUED BELOW IN THE HOW TO APPLY SECTION.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.