This position is located within a National Forest. The primary purpose of this position is to assist with technical engineering work.

Duties

Assists higher level engineers in locating control points and taglines for roads. Collects data and prepares field notes and reports. Performs various tasks on a land line location or p-line survey crew, such as setting hubs, measuring elevations and distances, setting targets, and recording field data. Performs tasks related to road design, such as computing levels, plotting road profiles, crossing sections, and traversing, tracing completed plans and profiles, preparing data for computerized input, and working from printouts or reports. Assists with work related to constructing roads, trails, or other facilities, such as collecting and analyzing materials, taking measurements, and reporting on contractor's progress to a higher-level engineer. Assists with road inventories, mapping, signing, traffic counts, or other work related to the maintenance of roads, trails or facilities. Develops sketches, drawings, and/or work requests for support operations, such as simple modifications to equipment that are easily visualized, fit a similar pattern, and/or are specified by a senior technician or engineer. Serves as rod person on surveys and uses various types of rods. As head chain person, selects measuring or turning point by considering terrain and demands of the type of survey involved. Independently carries through a sequence of operations. Uses surveying instruments to measure slope distance and converts to horizontal distance.

Requirements

• You must be a US Citizen or US National.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Direct Deposit Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of your choosing.
• Must be 18 years of age.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-Verify.

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary. GS-03: Applicants must have six months of any type of work that demonstrated the 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 of the occupation; OR one year of education above high school that included at least 6 semester hours in any combination of courses such as engineering, engineering or industrial technology, construction, physics, drafting, surveying, physical science, or mathematics; OR combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience. The education must have been obtained in an accredited business, technical school, junior college, college or university. Examples of General Experience includes: Performed farm/ranch labor, such as feeding and tending livestock or general maintenance of farm/ranch facilities; Worked in a greenhouse or nursery moving, watering, and tending plants and performing other general labor tasks; Fed and watered animals, such as in a laboratory, pet store, or zoo; Any work experience, paid or unpaid. Unpaid experience, for example, may be regular volunteer work, such as at a park, hospital, community sports league, etc. 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. To receive consideration for this position, you must provide updated required documents and meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Contacts

• Address USDA Forest Service HRM Contact Center DO NOT MAIL IN APPLICATIONS, SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT Albuquerque, NM 87109 US
• Name: HRM Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-372-7248 X2
• Email: [email protected]