These positions are located in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR), (DEX), External Hazards Branch (EXHB) Supervisor Barbara Hayes These positions are in the Bargaining Unit with the National Treasury Employees Union, Chapter 208, and ARE subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure reporting and security ownership restriction reporting requirements

Duties

Provides technical, programmatic, and project leadership in the area of hydrology to the agency. Serves as a Senior Hydrologist with special emphasis in applying hydrology to the safety review of nuclear power plant licensing activities under 10 CFR Parts 50 and 52. Leads development of new guidance and risk-informed approaches such as probabilistic flood hazard analysis, probabilistic risk assessments, graded approaches, and other innovations for the changing size and technologies of new reactor applications. Additionally leads NRC’s Dam Safety Program and supports the safety review process for siting, licensing, and decommissioning activities for reactor and material facilities. Serves as a technical witness at public hearings representing the NR in the area of hydrology.

Requirements

Qualifications

In order to qualify for this position, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level (GG-14) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.   The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following: 1. Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the field of hydrology as related to site characterization relevant to siting nuclear facilities and hazard evaluations including the use of runoff and hydraulic models, and evaluation of local intense precipitation, riverine and dam failure related flooding, and coastal flood hazards. (Example:  Describe work experience, education, and training which demonstrate your abilities, and your knowledge related to site characterization relevant to siting nuclear facilities and evaluation of external hydrologic hazards). 2. Demonstrated knowledge and experience relevant to interagency activities relevant to dams under the NRC’s regulatory authority consistent with the Federal Guidelines for Dam Safety.  (Example:  Describe work experience, education, and training which demonstrate your abilities, and your knowledge related to dam safety and related programs at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Us Bureau of Reclamation, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Interagency Committee on Dam Safety and on the National Dam Safety Review Board quarterly meetings.) 3. Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with NRC regulations, regulatory guides, risk-informed approaches such as probabilistic flood hazard analysis, probabilistic risk assessments, graded approaches, and innovative approaches to reviewing the changing size and technology of new reactor applications. (Example:  Describe specific experience, training, and accomplishments which demonstrate your knowledge of NRC safety related regulations, NRC related processes such as probabilistic approaches, weather and hydrology data sources related to both green and brownfield sites, and industry standards. Include several examples of such work and describe the complexity of the issue.) 4. Demonstrated ability to prioritize, plan, schedule, and manage complex technical projects involving interdisciplinary teamwork with technical experts in the fields of external hazards including contracted resources. (Example:  Describe specific experience and accomplishments which demonstrate your ability prioritize, plan, schedule and manage complex technical projects involving interdisciplinary teams with expertise relevant to hydrologic characterization and hazard evaluation as well as experience as a Contracting Officer Representative.  Include several specific examples of projects performed and describe the complexity of the work, and your role in organizing and accomplishing the work, and the nature of the interdisciplinary interactions.) 5.Demonstrated ability and significant history presenting hydrologic characterization and hazard information both orally and in writing on complex technical issues. Work assignments demonstrate ability to lead technical discussions, represent the agency with external stakeholders develop resolution of challenging technical issues, document and provide recommendations to management. Describe experience interacting with management, staff, technical advisory bodies (e.g. NRC’s Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards) and representatives of industry (Example:  Describe volume and complexity of specific experience as well as training, and accomplishments which demonstrate your ability to effectively communicate complex technical issues related to hydrologic characterization and hazards and dam safety regulation as well as a high level representation on hydrologic and dam failure topics.  Describe your ability to prepare written documents such as safety evaluations, significant event briefings, or input to inspection related reports.  Provide several specific examples of both written and oral communication and describe the audience, the nature and complexity of the issue, and the outcome of such communication.) Specialized Experience is defined as demonstrated knowledge of runoff and hydraulic models, evaluation of local intense precipitation, riverine and dam failure related flooding, coastal flood hazards, dam safety and inspections, and probabilistic approaches. A description of how you possess the specialized experience as well as how you meet the qualifications desired in an ideal candidate should be addressed in your resume.

Education

Basic Requirements:

1. Degree: physical or natural science, or engineering that included at least 30 semester hours in any combination of courses in hydrology, the physical sciences, geophysics, chemistry, engineering science, soils, mathematics, aquatic biology, atmospheric science, meteorology, geology, oceanography, or the management or conservation of water resources. The course work must have included at least 6 semester hours in calculus (including both differential and integral calculus), and at least 6 semester hours in physics. Calculus and physics, as described above, are requirements for all grade levels.

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2. Combination of education and experience -- course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Evaluation of Experience: Acceptable experience must have included performance of scientific functions related to the study of water resources, based on and requiring a professional knowledge of related sciences and the consistent application of basic scientific principles to the solution of theoretical and practical hydrologic problems. The following is illustrative of acceptable experience: field or laboratory work that would require application of hydrologic theory and related sciences such as geology, geo-chemistry, geophysics, or civil engineering to making observations, taking samples, operating instruments, assembling data from source materials, analyzing and interpreting data, and reporting findings orally and in writing. In some cases, professional scientific experience that is not clearly water resource experience may be acceptable if such experience was preceded by appropriate education in hydrology or by professional hydrology experience.

Applicants with related experience in hydrology gained through earlier Federal Government employment might have gained that experience in one or more occupational series. Such series include Soil Conservation, GS-457; Forestry, GS-460; Soil Science, GS-470; Civil Engineering, GS-810; Chemistry, GS-1320; Meteorology, GS-1340; and Geology, GS-1350. Comparable non-Federal experience may be given similar credit.

Contacts

• Address NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Human Resources Attn: Please Complete Washington, District of Columbia 20555 United States
• Name: Erica M Mosley-Ferebee
• Phone: 301-415-1577
• Email: [email protected]