Interdisciplinary Civil Engineer (Hydrologic) Hydrologist

Reclamation is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as an Interdisciplinary Civil Engineer (Hydrologic) Hydrologist. You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing water demands while protecting the environment.

Duty Location: Carson City, Nevada

• Serves as a specialist responsible for the investigation and development of models for use in planning studies directed at increasing and managing the water supplies of Northern Nevada. Responsible for general hydrologic forecasting and data analysis.

• Applies water resource models to studies related to water supply, power, or environmental issues.

• Performs hydrologic and hydraulic research on water and resources.

• Collects, measures, analyzes, and interprets hydrologic information on water resources.

• Forecasts water supply, water flows and reservoir releases.

• Develops new, improved, or more economical hydrologic methods, techniques, and instruments.

• Creates model data input, output and storage mechanisms. Models and studies are used to evaluate water supply as well as stabilize, protect, restore, and enhance river environments.

• Conducts technical analysis regarding submitted water rights applications and potential impacts on Truckee and Carson River basins' water resources.

• Collects and analyzes data on water supplies, demands, reservoir operations and management, river hydraulics and, as required, for other studies and programs of the Area Office.

1.Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.

2.Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

3.Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.

4.Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

GS-1315 (Hydrology):

A. 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. OR

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

In addition to the basic education requirement, in order to be rated as qualified for this position, the HR Office must be able to determine that the applicant meets the education and/or specialized experience requirement - this information must be clearly supported in the resume.

To qualify at the GS-07 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-05 in Federal service Specialized experience at this level is defined as: Assisting with and performing technical work related to river environments, groundwater, water management operations, or water infrastructure by tabulating physical data, applying basic principles of engineering or hydrology, reviewing simple engineering specifications and drawings, and reviewing technical reports and other documentation for accuracy, consistency, or deficiencies.

These examples are not all inclusive. OR

One (1) year of graduate level education in physical or natural science or engineering OR

Superior Academic Achievement is based on: 1) class standing, 2) grade-point average, or 3) honor society membership. Specific requirements are: 1) Class Standing:

Upper third of graduating class based on completed courses; 2a) Grade Point Average: 3.0 or higher as recorded on official transcript or as computed based on 4 years of education; 2b) based on courses completed during the final full 2 years of curriculum; -OR- 2c) 3.5 or higher based on average of courses completed in the specific major field of study; or 3) Honor Society Membership: Election to membership in a national scholastic honor society listed in the Association of College Honor Societies, Booklet of Information, and/or Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities (membership in a freshman honor society cannot be used to meet the requirements of this provision).

To qualify at the GS-09 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 in Federal service which includes: Performing detailed technical work related to river environments, groundwater, water management operations, or water infrastructure by tabulating physical data, applying complex principles of engineering or hydrology, reviewing complex engineering specifications and drawings, and producing technical reports.

Preparing contract specifications for simple technical contracts (e.g., items of work and units of measurement for payment, site preparation requirements, methods and process of construction or installation of equipment, performance requirements of materials and components, methods, and control of materials). These examples are not all inclusive. OR 2 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a master's degree OR a master's or equivalent graduate degree in physical or natural science or engineering.

To qualify at the GS-11 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 in Federal service which includes performing and guiding others in the preparation of detailed technical work related to river environments, groundwater, water management operations, or water infrastructure by tabulating physical data, applying complex principles of engineering or hydrology, reviewing complex engineering specifications and drawings, analyzing and calculating flow characteristics; evaluating facility or waterway capacities and operations; complex hydrologic modelling and data analyses; hydrologic risk estimation and analyses; conducting hydrologic extremes analyses (e.g., flood frequency, drought); analysis of the adequacy of water supplies available from surface and/or subsurface sources after consideration of water rights; water requirements for irrigation, municipalities, industries, hydropower, fish and wildlife, and/or pollution control; development of computational methods and computer programs/codes to solve complex hydrology and hydrometeorology problems; statistical analysis of rainfall data, stream discharge data, and other historical hydrological-related data; interfacing systems models' with other models such reservoir, stream quality and/or groundwater models to support water resources studies; hydrograph scaling, rainfall-runoff modeling, storm transposition, and regional flood transposition; integrating climate change concepts into hydrologic studies; and stochastic/probabilistic and deterministic analyses which require statistical and physical representation of natural systems, and producing technical reports. Coordinating complex projects, planning technical investigations, or monitoring, and developing guidelines.

Preparing contract specifications and acting as a contracting officer's technical representative for complex technical contracts (e.g., items of work and units of measurement for payment and performance requirements.) These examples are not all inclusive. OR 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a PhD degree OR PhD or equivalent doctoral degree in physical or natural science or engineering.