Duties

• The position serves as a technical assistant in the performance of a variety of hydrology tasks, either as a crew member or individual worker.
• Develops, assembles, evaluates, adapts, and presents in tabular or graphic form, technical data in the fields of water data collection, stage data, stream discharge, rainfall, and wind gaging.
• Prepares criteria for use in calibrating stream flow in open and controlled channels.
• Conducts detailed analyses for use by hydrologists and engineers in considering possibility of applying engineering theories to the rise and fall of water, water slopes, natural and artificial controls, etc.
• Collects data from field recording instruments and makes on-site measurements of study area conditions. Assists on field survey crews in the collection of resource data.
• Prepares a variety of charts, graphs, and figures for data analysis and publication. Prepares correspondence, in draft form, relating to all phases of the work; initiates directives for securing data needed.
• Maintains liaison with other Forest Service staff, and with other Federal, state and local agencies and with public and private interests having a common interest in the collection and dissemination of the hydrological data.
• Services, repairs, and installs a variety of hydrologic instruments.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Successful completion of a 2-year probationary period is required.
• Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit E-Verify.
• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• As a field going position working in brown or black bear habitat, this position is required to be firearm certified for personal and/or crew safety.
• Executive Order 12564 requires employees designated to carry a firearm to be subject to random drug testing. This position will be subject to random drug testing and will be placed in the applicant testing pool.
• This position requires initial and continuing qualifications in the use of firearms as outlined in the Gun Control Act of 1968, amended by the Lautenberg Amendment of 1996.
• This is a Test Designated Position. You will be tested for illegal drugs prior to appointment and randomly thereafter. Appointment and continued employment is conditional on negative results.

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