VOLCANO: CORRECTION: Volcano Emissions Project hiring a Physical Science Technician

[Chelsea Allison <cmalliso@xxxxxxx>]

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CORRECTION: Volcano Emissions Project hiring a Physical Science Technician

From: "Kern, Christoph" <ckern@xxxxxxxx>
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Please accept my apologies for this repeated posting. This is a CORRECTION:

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. 

Unfortunately, there was an error in the initial advertisement which caused the position to be offered only at the GS 9 level. In fact, this position is being offered at either the GS 9 or GS 11 level, depending on the qualifications of the respective applicants. This error has now been corrected and the position has been re-advertised. We encourage those interested to reconsider this position based on the new grade level. Applicants who had previously applied to the erroneous listing must reapply to the corrected listing to be considered. 

The corrected vacancy announcement, including specific qualification requirements and application procedures, can be found at http://www.usajobs.gov by referring to Job Announcement Number: SAC-2016-0337

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/440977800

Applicants must be U.S. citizens. 

This position is also open to current or former Federal employees under merit promotion procedures: SAC-2016-0338

The application period has been extended until June 13, 2016.

 

Some of the duties of the sought Physical Science Technician will 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.

Thank you for your consideration, and sincere apologies for this error.

Christoph Kern

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