Hydrologic Technician

Explore a new career with the BLM - where our people are our greatest natural resource.

We expect to fill many vacancies.

This is a temporary appointment. Appointment to this position will not convey permanent status and will be for a period not-to-exceed 1560 hours in a service year.

• Hydrologic Technicians collect surface water and ground water data in accordance with standard procedures using standard and specialized data collection equipment.
• Collecting water/sediment for chemical or biological analysis and making field determination on surface and/or ground water for a variety of chemical parameters.
• Performs water-level and discharge measurements from wells and springs noting various field conditions. Computes and checks ground-water records from field notes where hydrologic conditions are fairly stable.
• Selects from a variety of well-established procedures to perform routine field water-quality measurement such as water temperature, specific conductance, PH, dissolved oxygen, and alkalinity.
• Hydrologic Technicians perform routine measurements of stage and discharge applying various methods and using different equipment depending upon the field conditions.
• Use computers to store and analyze water resources data including spreadsheets, word processors, databases and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
• Record notes, check computations, prepare records for computer processing, enter data into computer files, and assemble and prepare field and laboratory data for tabulation and publication.
• Install, maintain, service, and troubleshoots a variety of hydrologic sensing, recording, and communications equipment and instrumentation while evaluating accuracy in relation to computations on hydrologic data and records.
• Collects data on stream and riparian reserves where land modification projects can potentially impact watershed and hydrology.
• Collects information on the origination and location of water sources.
• Collection of data on project level impacts related to hydrology and impacted soils.

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Be sure to read the '
  
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• You cannot hold an active real estate license: nor can you have an interest or hold stocks in firms with interest in Federal Lands.
• Direct Deposit Required.
• Appointment will be subject to a favorably adjudicated background/suitability investigation/determination.
• Your resume must contain enough information to show that you meet the qualification requirements as defined in the announcement (2-page maximum and number of hours per week worked for each position ).