Supervisory Hydrologic Technician Department of the Interior Geological Survey Upper Midwest Wer Science Center, Eastern Da Section, Grayling Field Office Summary You will serve as a Supervisory Hydrologic Technician for the Upper Midwest Wer Science Center which provides a broad range of da products, analyses, and expert advice in the hydrologic sciences. You may be required to travel overnight away from home up to 2 nights per month. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes. Salary Range (Per Annum): $89,508 (Step 1) to $116,362 (Step 10) First time hires to the Federal government normally start the step 1 re. Learn more about this agency Summary You will serve as a Supervisory Hydrologic Technician for the Upper Midwest Wer Science Center which provides a broad range of da products, analyses, and expert advice in the hydrologic sciences. You may be required to travel overnight away from home up to 2 nights per month. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes. Salary Range (Per Annum): $89,508 (Step 1) to $116,362 (Step 10) First time hires to the Federal government normally start the step 1 re. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Grayling, MI No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed Yes—You may qualify for reimbursement of relocion expenses in accordance with agency policy. Salary $89,508

• $116,362 per year Pay scale & grade GS 12 Promotion potential None Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 25% or less
• You may be expected to travel for this position.

Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 1316 Hydrologic Technician Supervisory stus Yes Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Modere Risk (MR) Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . The type depends on the job. Background check type Credentialing Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number

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Control number 884984700 This job is open to Help The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Clarificion from the agency This announcement is open to U.S. Citizens or Nionals; and Career transition eligibles (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL). Videos Duties Help Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Supervises and schedules staff responsible for collecting, analyzing, and preparing surface wer, groundwer, and wer-quality da, ensuring adherence to USGS guidelines and accuracy standards. Oversees real-time da management, quality control, and timely updes for hydrologic informion displayed on Wer Da for the Nion, maintaining da integrity and reliability. Trains and mentors personnel in field da collection techniques, hydrologic compution methods, instrumention, and supporting computer applicions, fostering technical development. Directs and reviews complex hydrologic field efforts, including da collection, compution, and analysis while ensuring accuracy and continuity of records. Acts as liaison and advisor to hydrologic organizions, participes in program development, prepares workplans and budgets, and represents USGS meetings and technical workshops. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Must be a U.S. Citizen or Nional. Appointment subject to background investigion and favorable adjudicion. Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service. Direct Deposit participion required. Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verificion check. To learn more, www.dhs.gov/EVerify/ . Must have and maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment. You must pass a physical examinion. You are required to complete training, obtain and maintain a government credit card with travel and purchase authority. You must be least 18 years of age or older to opere government vehicles. As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you required to serve a 1-year probionary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest evalued. This probionary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organizion goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizional goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probionary or trial period automically termines when th period ends unless the agency affirmively certifies, in writing, th the individual's employment should continue and th their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmively certify continued employment beyond the probionary or trial period, such appointments are termined. Upon completion of your probionary period, your employment termined unless you receive certificion, in writing, th your continued employment advances the public interest. This is a supervisory position th may require completion of a supervisory probionary period. Qualificions All qualificions must be met by the closing de of this announcement-09/30/2026-unless otherwise sted in this vacancy announcement. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST ste either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Failure to adequely provide informion needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in th time not being credited when evaluing qualifying experience. For periods of time th reflect military service, the DD-214 or Stement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service des reflected. This position requires a special qualificion th has been determined to be essential to perform the duties and used as a screen out element. If you do not certify th you possess the following selective factor(s), you red not qualified.

Valid Ste-issued Driver's License Minimum Qualificion Requirements :

To qualify for this position, you must meet the following minimum qualificions: To qualify for this position the GS-12 grade level:

Specialized Experience Requirement:

you must possess least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or prive sectors). Your resume must include hours per week worked. Specialized experience is defined as demonstred experience: Planning and conducting the compution and collection of da from approximely thirty or more gaging stions between field work and/or da review, determining stage-discharge relions, computing ring tables and mean daily, monthly and annual discharge res from these stions. Acting as a party chief for site installions and making measurements of flood flows under extremely difficult conditions, including knowledge of indirect measurement options post flood events. Collecting da including th required to compute flood flows by the slope-area method, by measurement of flow over dams, by flow through culverts and by flow over embankments. As well as working knowledge or expertise in area velocity discharge records completion. Leading training or discussions for a field office or assisting with programs to move forward field da collection efforts or records finalizion. Awareness of budgeting constraints and methods within the office to help make program decisions and adjust approaches to field efforts.

Volunteer Experience:

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (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 th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Educion This position does not allow substituting educion for experience. Additional informion Additional vacancies may be filled using this job announcement. If otherwise eligible and qualified, you may be offered a recruitment or relocion incentive. The decision to offer an incentive made on a case-by-case basis and is neither promised nor guaranteed. For informion : Recruitment Incentive or Relocion Incentive . A continued service agreement may be required if it is determined you are eligible for a permanent change in duty stion (PCS), recruitment, or relocion incentive.

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

Work regularly requires considerable dexterity, agility, and strenuous physical exertion. Field assignments involve climbing and/or working from tall ladders and scaffolding, or other eleved structures; working on uneven, slippery, or steep terrain such as streambanks, rocky embankments, wetlands, or flood-affected areas; and lifting and carrying or deploying equipment th frequently weighs 50 pounds or more. The incumbent must often bend, crouch, or work in confined or restricted spaces to install, maintain, or repair hydrologic instruments. Work is performed in both office and field settings. Fieldwork routinely exposes the incumbent to a wide range of environmental and weher conditions, including extreme he or cold, heavy rain, high humidity or snow. All Department of Interior (DOI) employees, their spouses, and minor children may not acquire or retain any claim, permit, lease, small tract entry, or other rights granted by the Department in Federal lands, with limited exceptions. Additional ethics prohibitions can be found here, https://www.doi.gov/ethics/ethics-prohibitions . The duties of this position are suitable for telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval. Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. Your qualificions evalued based on your applicion merials (e.g. resume, supporting documents), the responses you provide on the applicion questionnaire, and the result of any additional assessment(s) required for this position. Your resume must not exceed 2 pages. Only the document submitted as the "Resume" under the Documents section used to determine your qualificions/eligibility and for ring purposes. In the event you submit more than one resume, only the lest submission reviewed. Candides red and ranked using Cegory Ring procedures. These procedures place candides with veteran's preference above non-preference eligibles within each cegory. Veterans with a service-connected disability of least 10 percent are listed in the highest quality cegory, except when the position being filled is scientific or professional the GS-09 grade level or higher. Under Cegory Ring, candides red and ranked into the following cegories Best Qualified

• applicants possessing experience th substantially exceeds the minimum qualificions of the position including all selective factors and are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position Well Qualified
• applicants possessing experience th exceeds the minimum qualificions of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in most of the requirements of the job Qualified
• applicants possessing experience th meets the minimum qualificions of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in some, but not all of the requirements of the job.

You assessed in the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics): Da Management Hydrology Leadership Planning and Evaluing Problem Solving Oversting your qualificions and/or experience in your applicion merials or applicion questionnaire may result in your removal from considerion. Cheing on an assessment may also result in your removal from considerion. To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the applicion and applicion questionnaire, this position requires successful completion of additional assessment(s), including a Structured Resume Review. These assessments measure the critical competencies listed above th are required to successfully perform the job. Current or former displaced Federal employees who are surplus, displaced, or involuntarily separed have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP). To be considered under CTAP/ICTAP, you must be well-qualified, score least 85 (i.e., meet the minimum qualificion requirements, including any selective placement factors; educion, and experience requirements), and be able to perform the duties of the position upon entry. Providing false or misleading informion on your resume or supporting documention may result in removal from considerion or other action consistent with applicable federal hiring regulions. Applicants who include vulgar, offensive, or inapproprie language or informion in their applicion package ineligible for further considerion for this position. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help The following documents are required and must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 09/30/2026

• unless otherwise sted in this vacancy announcement: Resume which includes a list of all significant jobs held and duties performed, with des in month-year form (include month/day/year form if needed for 52 weeks of experience), and indice hours worked per week (or full-time) .

Your resume must clearly show how long you have held each grade/rank. Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or tachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions. Your 2-page resume must contain informion sufficient to make a valid determinion th you fully meet the specialized experience requirements. If you have federal experience, you should include series, and grade for each position held, and if experience is part of a career ladder position, you must clearly distinguish the job duties and length of time working for each grade level. More informion on how to write a

Federal Resume:

https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/applicion/documents/resume/wh-to-include Complete All Required Assessment(s) . Veterans Preference Documention , if applicable. Veterans must submit a copy of your lest Certifice of Release or Discharge from Active Duty, DD-214 (member 4 copy) or other Documention of Service and Separion under Honorable Conditions, as listed on the SF15 . If you are a Disabled Veteran, Purple Heart Recipient, or Parent or Spouse of a Disabled or Deceased Veteran, you must submit all additional proof required by the SF15 , and if applicable, a completed SF15. You may request a copy of your Department of Veterans Affairs letter from www.va.gov/records/ or call 1-800-827-1000. If you are a veteran within 120 days of discharge, you must submit signed documention from the Armed Forces certifying: 1) your expected release/retirement from active duty, 2) under honorable conditions, 3) your pay grade/rank/re time of discharge, 4) des of active-duty service, 5) any campaign or expeditionary medals received, & 6) ded within 120 days of your separion. Interagency Career Transition (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) : You MUST submit proof of eligibility including 1) copy of the agency notice, e.g., RIF Separion Notice, Notice of Proposed Removal, etc.; 2) SF-50s (Notificions of Personnel Action) showing career/conditional tenure competitive stus, promotion potential and duty locion; and 3) your most recent performance appraisal. To exercise selection priority, displaced or surplus Federal employees must be well qualified. For more informion : USAJOBS Help Center

• Career Transition Programs (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) . Failure to submit any of the above-mentioned required documents will result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. Do not submit photographs with your applicion package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials
• you must remove your image from all documents.

Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. Adobe portfolio documents are not viewable by our agency's staffing offices. How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply for and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the 09/30/2026

• unless otherwise sted in this vacancy announcement to receive considerion.

The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. To PREVIEW the applicion questionnaire, select the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13066564 Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus, https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to/applicion/stus . Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement agree to have their applicion, associed documents and applicable personal informion shared with other Bureaus/Offices within the Department of the Interior (DOI) who have vacancies within the same occupional series, grade, full performance level and in the same geographic locion(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 considerion. Agency contact informion Michele Smith michele_j_smith@ios.doi.gov Address

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Sunrise Valley Drive Mail Stop 600 Reston, VA 20192 US Next steps Please refer to your USAJOBS account for applicion stus; the Human Resources Office cannot respond to individual stus inquiries. Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. Your applicion evalued by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluion is complete, you will receive another notificion regarding the stus of your applicion. You can find your ph with the Department of Interior https://careers.doi.gov/ . Any exaggerion of your experience, false stements, or tempt to conceal informion may disqualify you for employment considerion. We may verify all informion you provide in your resume and questionnaire responses, through reference and/or background checks, and/or verificion of your educion. If you are selected, you contacted personally by the Human Resources Office posting this announcement. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help The following documents are required and must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 09/30/2026

• unless otherwise sted in this vacancy announcement: Resume which includes a list of all significant jobs held and duties performed, with des in month-year form (include month/day/year form if needed for 52 weeks of experience), and indice hours worked per week (or full-time) .

Your resume must clearly show how long you have held each grade/rank. Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or tachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions. Your 2-page resume must contain informion sufficient to make a valid determinion th you fully meet the specialized experience requirements. If you have federal experience, you should include series, and grade for each position held, and if experience is part of a career ladder position, you must clearly distinguish the job duties and length of time working for each grade level. More informion on how to write a

Federal Resume:

https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/applicion/documents/resume/wh-to-include Complete All Required Assessment(s) . Veterans Preference Documention , if applicable. Veterans must submit a copy of your lest Certifice of Release or Discharge from Active Duty, DD-214 (member 4 copy) or other Documention of Service and Separion under Honorable Conditions, as listed on the SF15 . If you are a Disabled Veteran, Purple Heart Recipient, or Parent or Spouse of a Disabled or Deceased Veteran, you must submit all additional proof required by the SF15 , and if applicable, a completed SF15. You may request a copy of your Department of Veterans Affairs letter from www.va.gov/records/ or call 1-800-827-1000. If you are a veteran within 120 days of discharge, you must submit signed documention from the Armed Forces certifying: 1) your expected release/retirement from active duty, 2) under honorable conditions, 3) your pay grade/rank/re time of discharge, 4) des of active-duty service, 5) any campaign or expeditionary medals received, & 6) ded within 120 days of your separion. Interagency Career Transition (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) : You MUST submit proof of eligibility including 1) copy of the agency notice, e.g., RIF Separion Notice, Notice of Proposed Removal, etc.; 2) SF-50s (Notificions of Personnel Action) showing career/conditional tenure competitive stus, promotion potential and duty locion; and 3) your most recent performance appraisal. To exercise selection priority, displaced or surplus Federal employees must be well qualified. For more informion : USAJOBS Help Center

• Career Transition Programs (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) . Failure to submit any of the above-mentioned required documents will result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. Do not submit photographs with your applicion package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials
• you must remove your image from all documents.

Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. Adobe portfolio documents are not viewable by our agency's staffing offices. How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply for and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the 09/30/2026

• unless otherwise sted in this vacancy announcement to receive considerion.

The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. To PREVIEW the applicion questionnaire, select the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13066564 Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus, https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to/applicion/stus . Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement agree to have their applicion, associed documents and applicable personal informion shared with other Bureaus/Offices within the Department of the Interior (DOI) who have vacancies within the same occupional series, grade, full performance level and in the same geographic locion(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 considerion. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Michele Smith michele_j_smith@ios.doi.gov Address

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Sunrise Valley Drive Mail Stop 600 Reston, VA 20192 US Next steps Please refer to your USAJOBS account for applicion stus; the Human Resources Office cannot respond to individual stus inquiries. Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. Your applicion evalued by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluion is complete, you will receive another notificion regarding the stus of your applicion. You can find your ph with the Department of Interior https://careers.doi.gov/ . Any exaggerion of your experience, false stements, or tempt to conceal informion may disqualify you for employment considerion. We may verify all informion you provide in your resume and questionnaire responses, through reference and/or background checks, and/or verificion of your educion. If you are selected, you contacted personally by the Human Resources Office posting this announcement. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Grayling, MI No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed Yes—You may qualify for reimbursement of relocion expenses in accordance with agency policy. Salary $89,508

• $116,362 per year Pay scale & grade GS 12 Promotion potential None Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 25% or less
• You may be expected to travel for this position.

Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus Yes Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number

CBVB-26-13066564-DE-MS

Control number 884984700