USGS Volcano Emissions Project hiring a Physical Science Technician
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The USGS Volcano Science Center is hiring a Physical Science Technician to join the Volcano Emissions Project team at the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, WA. This is a permanent position with full benefits to be filled at the GS 9-11 level.
The application period is currently open and will close on June 8, 2016.
Some of the duties include:
- Assembly, testing, calibration, installation, and maintenance of complex geochemical instruments for measuring volcanic gases at U.S. volcanoes and at foreign sites.
- Maintaining a cache of volcanic gas instrumentation in the electronics and chemistry lab.
- Integration of a variety of components into field-ready enclosures. This may include assembly of cabling and power systems, electrochemical gas sensors, optical gas sensors, analog-digital converters, relays, microcomputers, as well as telemetry components that include cellular and satellite modems and digital radios.
- Making measurements of volcanic gases with portable geochemical instruments, collecting gas samples for later analysis, and installing instrumentation.
- Compiling and analyzing data from multiple instruments, checking data for errors, and preparing data products. Evaluation will require combining various data streams and processing collected data with statistical algorithms and computer models.
- Gas measurements are conducted by airplane, helicopter, vehicle, boat and on foot. Work requires considerable and strenuous physical exertion such as lifting and carrying heavy equipment (up to 50 lbs) for hours at a time to remote locations in the field (up to 10 miles away), and working in rugged, rough terrain and at high altitude. Exposure to wind, cold, heat, rain in the field, in cold and tropical climates in areas such as Alaska, Latin America and the Pacific Rim. Field work requires travel for weeks at a time in remote domestic and international locations, often at short notice.
For details on the vacancy announcement, including specific qualification requirements and application procedures, go to http://www.usajobs.gov and refer to Job Announcement Number: SAC-2016-0303 (https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/440178100/). Applicants must be U.S. citizens.
This position is also open to current or former Federal employees under merit promotion procedures: SAC-2016-0332
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