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Cartographic Technician
Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs · Posted 9 days ago
On-site Lakewood, CO $51K – $111K Apply by Jul 16, 2026 Cartographic Technician ESTJESTPISFPISTP Trades
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This position is located with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The selected applicant's duty station will be in Washington D.C. or Albuquerque, NM or Lakewood, CO.
What You'll Do
- →As Cartographic Technician, your typical work assignments may include, but not limited to: Responsible for the preparation of base maps, segment maps and township plats of Indian reservations and segments of reservations.
- →Compile materials from sketches, surveyor's filed notes, plats of survey, land records, metes and bounds surveys, aerial photographs, right-of-way plats of records and quadrangle sheets.
- →Determine the correct land descriptions and status of the lands which involved extensive research and examination.
- →Digitizes cartographic data, which includes, but is not limited to, landscape features, ownership type symbolization, rights-of-way, and geographic coordinates.
- →Plots intricate metes and bounds description appearing on incoming legal instruments to determine the accuracy and location of the land in relation other tracts.
- →Establish, organize, and maintain a source materials library.
- →Prepare special reports for management.
- →Consult with subject matter expert to develop deadlines and projects.
- →Consult with personnel from regional branches, agencies and private, tribal, Federal and State representatives to reach agreement on plans and schedules for production of products.
Requirements
- ✓If you are qualifying based on your education, you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims.
- ✓Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course.
- ✓All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.
- ✓If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.
- ✓One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study.
- ✓Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis.
- ✓If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html
Personality Fit
Job ID: 13912a95-8e3c-4930-9514-529f7511f17a
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