Physical Scientist Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamion

DO-WO 8668

• Technical Service Center Summary You will serve as a Physical Scientist with Bureau of Reclamion.

This position is loced within the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamion, Denver, Wer, Environment & Ecosystems Division, LAKEWOOD, COLORADO. Learn more about this agency Summary You will serve as a Physical Scientist with Bureau of Reclamion. This position is loced within the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamion, Denver, Wer, Environment & Ecosystems Division, LAKEWOOD, COLORADO. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Lakewood, CO No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $83,265

• $108,251 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11 Promotion potential 11 Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel
• You may be expected to travel for this position.

Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 1301 General Physical Science Supervisory stus No 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 Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk 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

CBVL-26-13063005-IC-ERW

Control number 884706800 This job is open to Help Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Clarificion from the agency This is a Merit Promotion announcement for current and former career and career conditional Federal employees, Career Transition eligibles (CTAP & ICTAP) and those who are eligible under the hiring phs listed above. Refer to Required Documents section for more informion. Videos Duties Help Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following:

Scientific Analysis:

Performs and/or coordines scientific analyses including technical planning activities; da collection, validion, and management; modeling and da analyses; analyses of site locion and/or conditions; risk estimion and analyses; or analysis of instrumention da.

Documention and Presention:

Prepares and reviews technical documention such as technical memorandums and reports on scientific findings, correspondence, river and reservoir analysis guidance, and other technical documention as needed. Makes oral presentions of technical documention coordinion meetings, technical briefings, or other meetings.

Review and Mentoring:

Provides technical reviews, peer reviews, and checking of scientific analyses, and technical documention. Provides technical guidance, training, and advice to lower graded staff and other internal and external stakeholders. Other Duties (non-grade controlling / non-series controlling): Project Management

• Develops, monitors, and manages project plans including outlining project scope, schedule, and budget; coordining and communicion with other groups or offices; monitoring tasks and budget; managing changes to project plans; identifying and addressing issues prior to adverse impacts to schedule or budget; and participing on or leading technical teams. Compliance
• Provides support in connection with regulory program oversight, policy and rulemaking efforts, review of regulory compliance issues, and resolution of technical reled issues. Dabase Operion
• Develops, modifies, and utilizes relional dabases to maintain scientific da for conducting operional and planning analyses, and coordines and operes da collection systems. Technical Working Groups
• Participes on and/or leads technical work groups or teams.

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, https://www.e-verify.gov/ . Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment. As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probionary period to evalue your fitness and whether your continuion of employment advances the public interest. 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.

• Additional Requirements loced under qualificions
• Qualificions All qualificions must be met by the closing de of this announcement
• 09/19/2026-unless otherwise sted in this vacancy announcement.

Competitive candides must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your applicion to be used to valide your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience th you granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documention for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience . For periods of time th reflect military service, the DD-214 or Stement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service des reflected. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, 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.

Qualificions:

To be eligible for considerion, you must first meet the Individual Occupional Requirement for this position

Individual Occupional Requirements Basic Requirements:

1.

Degree:

physical science, engineering, or mhemics th included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or reled engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of merials, and electronics. or 2. Combinion of educion and experience

• educion equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above th included least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or reled engineering science, plus approprie experience or additional educion.

To qualify for this position the GS-11 grade level:

Experience :

To qualify, you must possess least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or prive sectors). Specialized experience is defined as demonstred experience: carrying out conventional or routine civil engineering analyses including technical planning activities, da collection, modeling and da analysis, risk estimion and analysis, engineering design studies and projects, technical documention, and other civil engineering analyses. You must include hours per week worked.

• OR•

Educion :

Successful completion of least 3 years of progressively higher-level gradue educion leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. You must include transcripts.

• OR•Combinion of educion and experience as listed above.

You must include hours per week and transcripts.

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 has a mandory educion requirement. You must submit a copy of your transcript(s) to support claimed educion if substituting educion for experience. Transcripts must include your name, school name, grades, credit hours earned, major(s), grade point average or class ranking, and de the degree was conferred, if applicable. A typed list of courses, grades, semester/quarter hours, GPA, etc. will not be accepted. Non-submission may result in being red not qualified for the position. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable, but if you are selected for this position and you used your educion to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

Foreign Educion:

To receive credit for educion completed outside the United Stes, you must show proof th the educion has been submitted to a prive organizion th specializes in interpretion of foreign educional credentials and such educion has been deemed least equivalent to th gained in conventional U.S. educion programs. For more informion on how foreign educion is evalued, : https://www.ed.gov/about/initiives/internional-affairs/recognition-of-foreign-qualificions Additional informion Additional vacancies may be filled using this job announcement. All 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, DOI Ethics Prohibitions | U.S. Department of the Interior .

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

Work is primarily sedentary in an office setting. Travel is required about once per month. Field assignments are often in remote and wild areas and involve standing, bending, walking, carrying, climbing, wading streams, and boing; all while using da collection equipment and instrumention. Work may also include frequent lifting and carrying of moderely heavy items typically weighing less than 50 pounds such as field gear and sediment samples. Field assignments may also involve driving motor vehicles and trailers to work sites, some of which may be remote, and include overnight stays in remote locions. 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 the additional assessment(s) required for this position. To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. 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. You assessed in the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics): Hydraulic Engineering Oral Communicion Technical Competence Writing 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. The assessment includes a cut score based on the minimum level of required proficiency in these critical general competencies. You must meet or exceed the cut score to be You will not be considered for the position if you score below the cut score or fail to complete the assessment. All qualified non-competitive applicants and the best-qualified Merit Promotion applicants referred to the hiring manager for considerion.

DUE WEIGHT

Please submit 1) a copy of your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion and 2) a list of any awards (e.g. superior performance awards, special act or achievement awards, quality step increase, etc.) you received in the last 5 years. Any performance appraisal/evaluion and award documention you provide forwarded to the selecting official. The selecting official will review this documention and give it due weight considerion during the overall selection process. If you do not have your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, you must submit a stement as to why it is not available. Please indice if any prior performance appraisals/evaluions were an acceptable level. Oversting your qualificions and/or experience in your applicion merials or applicion questionnaire may result in your removal from considerion or your score may be lowered. Cheing on an assessment may also result in your removal from considerion. Applicants who include vulgar, offensive, or inapproprie language or informion in their applicion package ineligible for further considerion for this position. 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. 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)

• 09/19/2026-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 2 single-sided pages and resumes longer than 2 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. Your 2-page resume must contain informion sufficient to make a valid determinion th you fully meet the specialized experience requirements.

Resume Builder:

https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/applicion/documents/resume/wh-to-include Complete All Required Assessment(s) .

Performance Appraisals and Awards :

All applicants must submit their most recent performance appraisal showing the official ring of record and signed by a supervisor. If the performance appraisal is not ded within the last 18 months OR no performance appraisal is available, you must submit a stement as to why it is not available (including if any prior performance appraisals/evaluions were an acceptable level). All College Transcript(s) , if qualifying based on educion.

Eligibility Documention :

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. Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. 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 09/19/2026

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

Note:

You will only be marked eligible for those eligibilities th you selected and provided the approprie supporting documention. 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/13063005 Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. 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. 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 . Agency contact informion Emanuel Williams emanuel_williams@ios.doi.gov Address Technical Service Center Bureau of Reclamion Denver Federal Center

P.O. BOX 25007

Denver, CO 80225-0007 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)

• 09/19/2026-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 2 single-sided pages and resumes longer than 2 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. Your 2-page resume must contain informion sufficient to make a valid determinion th you fully meet the specialized experience requirements.

Resume Builder:

https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/applicion/documents/resume/wh-to-include Complete All Required Assessment(s) .

Performance Appraisals and Awards :

All applicants must submit their most recent performance appraisal showing the official ring of record and signed by a supervisor. If the performance appraisal is not ded within the last 18 months OR no performance appraisal is available, you must submit a stement as to why it is not available (including if any prior performance appraisals/evaluions were an acceptable level). All College Transcript(s) , if qualifying based on educion.

Eligibility Documention :

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. Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. 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 09/19/2026

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

Note:

You will only be marked eligible for those eligibilities th you selected and provided the approprie supporting documention. 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/13063005 Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. 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. 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 . Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Emanuel Williams emanuel_williams@ios.doi.gov Address Technical Service Center Bureau of Reclamion Denver Federal Center

P.O. BOX 25007

Denver, CO 80225-0007 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: Lakewood, CO No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $83,265

• $108,251 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11 Promotion potential 11 Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel
• You may be expected to travel for this position.

Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No 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

CBVL-26-13063005-IC-ERW

Control number 884706800