Hydrologic Technician

Quick Facts

Role: Hydrologic Technician (senior hydrologic technician)
Focus: Complex field instrumentation and water-data collection in support of technical requirements.

Description

Serves as a senior hydrologic technician performing complex field gage maintenance, installing/servicing stream and rain gages, and supporting a meteorological and hydrologic/hydraulic gage network program. Independently conducts water-level discharge measurements and computes discharge records for difficult stage–discharge relationships. Uses CWMS for real-time data and supports GIS and hydrologic/hydraulic analyses, including reservoir operations studies.

Responsibilities

• Perform complex field gage maintenance (field and support work)
• Install and service DCPs, stream gages, rain gages, and related instrumentation to ensure reliable data collection
• Implement the district’s meteorological, hydrologic, and hydraulic gage network program
• Independently perform water-level discharge measurements of streams and damout flows using current meters and electronic measuring devices
• Use the Corps Water Management System (CWMS) to prepare and maintain real-time meteorological, hydrologic, and hydraulic data
• Compute discharge records for stream gaging stations, including cases with difficult stage–discharge relationships (regulation, changing slope, variable backwater, debris, nearby streams, or control structures)
• Plan, coordinate, and implement GIS work supporting the branch; assist lower-graded personnel
• Coordinate multipurpose reservoir operations studies and compile runoff datasets (stream flow, snow accumulation and melt, watershed condition, rainfall)
• Collaborate with engineers and scientists on hydrologic analyses and dataset development for hydraulic, hydrologic, and reservoir operation studies

Requirements

• Meet GS-10/GS-11 specialized experience requirements as defined (experience only; no education substitution)
• Be eligible under one of the listed employment authority categories
• Obtain and maintain a valid State-issued Driver’s License
• Complete and pass a pre-employment physical
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs
• Obtain and maintain USACE Boat Operator Certification
• Pass suitability/fitness determination based on a completed background investigation
• Provide proof of U.S. citizenship
• Selective Service certification if applicable
• Time-in-grade requirement: 52 weeks at the next lower grade (if currently holding recent GS service)

Benefits

A comprehensive U.S. government benefits package is provided; eligibility and specific benefits depend on the position type.