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These positions are located in the Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Offices located in Salem, Tillamook, Coos Bay and Springfield, Oregon.
The Forest Engineer is assigned to work in a Western Oregon field office on Oregon and California (O&C) Revested Lands.
04/07/2021 to 05/04/2021
$35,265 - $74,129 per year
See location ranges under the 'Duties' section below.
GS 5 - 9
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
No
Permanent
Full-time
Competitive
11
No
No
OR-21-DE-11049454-FRD
597576700
U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
Federal employees who meet the definition of a "surplus" or "displaced" employee.
U.S. Citizens, CTAP, ICTAP
Salary Ranges for Tillamook, Springfield, and Coos Bay, Oregon:
GS-05: $35,265 to $45,847
GS-07: $43,683 to $56,790
GS-09: $53,433 to $69,462
Salary Range for Salem, Oregon:
GS-05: $37,634 to 48,927
GS-07: $46,618 to $60,605
GS-09: $57,023 to $74,129
Duties performed in a developmental capacity under the direction of higher graded staff:
The Forest Engineer may be required to perform as project manager for teams of other forest engineers, engineers, or foresters involved in routine forest engineering, engineering, or forest management work. Work involves timber sale planning, forest timber sale contract preparation and administration, and road rights-of-way assignments. Work also includes design, survey, preparation and administration of construction, service, and supply contracts. The forest engineer primarily serves as a work group leader for engineering and a member of the forest planning and timber sale preparation team. The forest engineer performs work with timber sale planning and layout, logging systems, road layout, road condition assessments for engineering packages, long range forest management planning, and interdisciplinary team (IDT)/Environmental Assessment (EA) work for either the timber or engineering departments; this includes preparing and updating Transportation Management Objectives (TMOs) and maintaining road inventory records in FAMMS. The forest engineer will also be involved with an extensive Reciprocal Rights-of-Way (RROW) program associated with timber sale implementation and requests from our RROW partners.
In order to qualify for this Forester Engineer GS-0460-0810-5/7/9, you must meet BOTH the Basic and Additional qualification requirements for at least one grade level described below. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience. If qualifying based on education, a copy of your unofficial transcripts must be provided with your application.
BASIC QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT for the 0460 series:
Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included the following major field of study and specific course requirements as stated below:
Degree: Forestry; or a related subject-matter field that included a total of at least 30 semester hours in any combination of biological, physical, or mathematical sciences or engineering, of which at least 24 semester hours of course work was in forestry. The curriculum must have been sufficiently diversified to include courses in each of the following areas:
To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.
If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your 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.
GRADUATE EDUCATION: 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.
Volunteer Experience: 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.
Promotion to the full performance level is neither guaranteed nor implied and will be based solely on your ability to satisfactorily perform the work of the position, existing work at the higher grade level, and recommendation by the position's supervisor.
Physical Demands: Field work is physically demanding. The forest engineer must be capable of extended periods of walking and working in rough mountainous terrain, extremely dense brush, logging slash, and ground that are either wet or covered in snow. In this environment, the incumbent must possess strength, stamina, and agility to successfully complete field work. Indoor office work necessitates long hours of sitting, intense concentration, telephone conversations, operating computer terminals, and attending meetings and trainings.
Working Conditions: Work is routinely performed in a properly heated/cooled indoor office setting and outdoors that may include extremely hot/cold/windy/dry/wet/snowy weather in rugged terrain, remote sites, poison oak, bees and hornets, snakes, logging and construction sites and occasionally at public meetings. The position requires operation of motor vehicles on narrow mountainous roads. Protective gear is necessary for field work. A valid State driver's license is required.
The Bureau of Land Management has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:
U.S. Citizenship required.
May be required to complete background investigation and drug screening.
Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males
You cannot hold an active real estate license, nor can you have an interest or hold stocks in firms with interest in Federal Lands.
Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program.
If you are a new employee in the Federal government, you will be required to complete a one-year probationary period.
Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) and Interagency Career Transition Assistance Programs (ICTAP): If you are applying for a special selection priority under DOI's Career Transition Assistance Plan (open to surplus DOI employees only) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (open to surplus and displaced Federal employees), you must:
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
A review of your resume and supporting documentation will be made and compared against your responses to the Occupational Questionnaire to determine if you are qualified for this job. If your resume is incomplete or does not support the responses provided in the Occupational Questionnaire, or if you fail to submit all required documentation, you will be rated 'ineligible', 'not qualified', or your score may be adjusted accordingly. If a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully; errors or omissions may affect your rating.
You will be evaluated based on how well you meet the qualifications listed in this vacancy announcement. Your qualifications will be evaluated based on your application materials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), the responses you provide on the application questionnaire, and the result of the additional assessments required for this position.
In order to be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and application questionnaire, this position requires successful completion of additional assessments, including a Structured Interview. These assessments measure the critical competencies listed below that are required to successfully perform the job.
Candidates will be rated and ranked using Category Rating procedures. These procedures place candidates with veteran's preference above non-preference eligibles within each category. Veterans with a service connected disability of at least 10 percent are listed in the highest quality category, except when the position being filled is scientific or professional at the GS-09 grade level or higher. Under Category Rating, candidates will be rated and ranked into one of three categories:
The following documents are required and must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 05/04/2021.
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
To apply for this position: You must complete the occupational questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. To receive consideration, the complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 05/04/2021. WE DO NOT ACCEPT HARD-COPY OR E-MAIL APPLICATION PACKAGES.
Once the Occupational Questionnaire is received you will receive acknowledgement that your submission was successful. If you are among the most qualified candidates and your name is referred to the hiring official, you may be contacted directly for a possible interview. You will be notified of the status of your Application Package at the time candidates are referred for consideration, and when the selection process is complete.
Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement agree to have their application, associated documents and applicable personal information shared with other Bureaus/Offices within the Department of the Interior (DOI) who have vacancies within the same occupational series, grade, full performance level and in the same geographic location(s), including within the same metro/commuting area. Applying to this announcement does not replace the need to apply to other job opportunity announcements for which you wish to receive consideration
This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if identical vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue date of the referral certificate.
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This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/597576700. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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