Supervisory Hydrologic Technician

Location

This position is in the California Water Science Center located in Eureka, California.

Applicants must meet the following to qualify for the GS-12 level:
One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 in the Federal service. Examples of such experience may include:

• Planning and conducting the computation and collection of data from approximately thirty or more gaging stations;
• Determining stage-discharge relations, computing rating tables and mean daily, monthly and annual discharge rates from these stations;
• Acting as a party chief and making indirect measurements of flood flows under extremely difficult conditions;
• Collecting data including that required to compute flood flows by the slope-area method, by measurement of flow over dams, by flow through culverts and by flow over embankments;
• Obtaining hydrologic data from published and unpublished sources and conducting hydrologic studies relative to the frequency of flood and droughts;
• Planning and coordinating a ground water survey program for an area that may be either a small area with complex features or a larger area with planning and coordinating problems related to the scope of the ground water survey operations.

You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements for the position by the closing date of the announcement.