Job opening: Irrigation Operations and Maintenance Specialist
Salary: $59 966 - 77 955 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Feb 01 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is located with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Superintendent, Uintah and Ouray Agency in Fort Duchesne, Utah.
Readvertises ST-23-11839401-CAWX-CS, applicants that applied to previous announcement will need to reapply.
OPEN UNTIL FILLED Application review 10 business days after the open date and thereafter until position is filled. Application expires in 3 months & will need to reapply to keep application active.
Duties
Provide guidance, support, and oversight for the protection of government interests on all service and construction contracts; scheduling; inspection of routine; emergency repair; maintenance performed to irrigation project infrastructure.
Create work orders and encode maintenance and related data into approved Computerized Maintenance Management System (e.g., MAXIMO™)
Collect, compile, and summarize data for job orders, vehicle reports, fuel usage, water diversions and deliveries, etc.
Provide technical oversight in regulatory compliance and resolving complex actions relating to safety and environmental issues.
Identify and prioritize construction and maintenance needs on the irrigation storage, transmission, and delivery systems.
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship Required
- Indian Preference applies
- You will be required to have federal payments made by Direct Deposit
- You may be required to successfully complete a probationary/trial period
- A background security investigation will be required for all new hires. Appointment will be subject to the applicant's successful completion of a background security investigation and favorable adjudication.
- If you are a male applicant born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency.
- NOTE: THE PAY FLEXIBILITIES OF A RECRUITMENT BONUS OR RELOCATION BONUS MAY BE AUTHORIZED, PENDING AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS AND MANAGEMENT APPROVAL.
- Incumbent is required to operate a government motor vehicle, must possess a valid driver's license, and have a safe driving record within the 3 year period immediately preceding submittal of GSA Form 3607.
- This is a Bargaining Unit position, for more information see What are bargaining units?
Qualifications
The following shows the amounts of education and/or experience required to qualify for positions.
GS-9: 1 year specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-07 level OR master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., if related.
Specialized Experience: Work experience that provided practical knowledge of crafts such as earthwork, concrete work, metal fabrication, welding, etc., in order to provide technical guidance and oversight to an irrigation operation and maintenance company. Also experience with irrigation systems and their operations and included various types of irrigation methods and equipment, structures, measuring devices, flow meters, etc. and open channel hydraulics and pressure systems in order to identify and prioritize construction and maintenance needs on the irrigation storage, transmission and delivery systems and to schedule and coordinate individual projects. Additionally, experience that demonstrated utilization of computers and irrigation system & maintenance computer software e.g. National Irrigation Information Management System (NIIMS), MAXIMO? (maintenance management system), spreadsheets, word processing, etc. to prepare reports, provide technical oversight and program administration.
All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
Merit Promotion candidates must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the announcement closing date.
Preference in filling vacancies is given to qualified Indian candidates in accordance with the Indian Preference Act of 1934 (title 25, USC Section 472).
Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur in the same location within 90 days from the closing date.
Education
If you are qualifying based on your education, you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.
If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.
One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.
If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education which shows the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit:
FOREIGN EDUCATION
Contacts
- Address BIA Center for Recruitment Rocky Mountain Regional
BIA Center for Recruitment Rocky Mountain Regional
2021 4th Avenue North
Billings, MT 59101
US
- Name: Bernice Scalpcane
- Phone: 4062477956
- Email: [email protected]
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