Explore a new career with the BLM - where our people are our most precious resource. We expect to fill three vacancies and if needed, other locations within the Montana/Dakotas State, District or Field offices may be considered based on need and management discretion. See location information in the Additional Information Section.

Duties

Performs limited drafting and mapping work involving a variety of basic cartographic methods. Performs detailed tasks to gather and prepare digital data sets, maps, and/or charts; digitizes data sets and enters information into metadata files. Provides assistance to other staff members in creating, editing, and correcting digital data or map information. Performs quality control to reduce digitizing errors and correct compilation or publication errors in source material. Provides assistance to more senior cartographers, technicians, and resource specialists in the development of digital data for off ice, state-wide and national natural resources geographic information systems. Maintains data bases for generating cartographic output; prepares or modifies maps and prepares finished copies of reports.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Be sure to read the 'How to Apply' and 'Required Documents' Sections.
• 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. In addition, your responses to the questions must adequately reflect in your resume.
• NO GOVERNMENT HOUSING IS AVAILABLE. Securing housing will be the responsibility of the selected employee.

Qualifications

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. You must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of the announcement. For GS-4: You must possess six (6) months of general experience, and six (6) months of specialized experience at or equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the GS-3 level. General experience is any type of work that demonstrates the applicant's ability to perform the work of the position, or experience that provided a familiarity with the subject matter or processes of the broad subject area. Specialized experience is as indicated by the following examples: helping develop new transportation maps from ortho photos and notes; working from rough drawings, sketches, GIS data files, and verbal instructions to help prepare intricate, small-scale location exhibits and finished maps and plats. -OR- Education: Successful completion of two years of education above high school which includes at least 12 semester hours in any combination of courses such as: cartography, relevant mathematical and statistical sciences, or related sciences, e.g., physical geography or geodesy. Not more than 6 of the 12 semester hours should have been in mathematics or statistics. -OR- Combination of Education and Experience: You may meet qualifications requirement for this position with an equivalent combination of specialized experience and appropriate undergraduate education. For GS-5: You must possess one (1) full year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-4 level that is equivalent in difficulty and complexity as indicated by the following examples: developing new transportation maps from ortho photos and notes; working from rough drawings, sketches, GIS data files, and verbal instructions to prepare intricate, small-scale location exhibits and finished maps and plats. -OR- Education: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study leading to a Bachelor's degree that included at least 18 semester hours in courses such as cartography, astronomy, geodesy, photogrammetry, oceanography, computer science, land surveying, geophysics, remote sensing, algebra, trigonometry, and calculus. Not more than 9 of the 18 semester hours should have been in mathematics or statistics. -OR- Combination of Education and Experience: You may meet qualifications requirement for this position with an equivalent combination of specialized experience and appropriate undergraduate education.

Education

Applicants may qualify for these positions based on experience, education, or an equivalent combination as described in the Qualifications section of this announcement.

If using education to qualify, you must submit copies of all transcripts or a list of college courses that include hours and grades from an accredited U.S. college/university. See Required Documents section for more information.

Contacts

• Address BLM Montana State Office BLM Montana State Office, MT-933 Branch of Human Resources 5001 Southgate Drive Billings, MT 59101 US
• Name: Linda Roberts
• Phone: (406) 896-5251
• Email: [email protected]