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Forester
Bureau of Land Management · Posted 62 days ago
About the Role
You will serve as a Forester. These positions are located in the Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Offices located in Grant Pass, Klamath Falls, Medford, North Bend, Prineville, Roseburg, Salem, Springfield, and Tillamook, Oregon. Pay will vary based on grade level and/or duty location for which you're selected. First time hires to the Federal government normally start at the step 1 rate.
What You'll Do
- →The Forester: Serves as a member of ID team that develops and designs projects for the forest management program.
- →He/she would identify forest management activities on specific tracts which result in the Field Office meeting its ASQ and RMP commitment.
- →The forester serves as a Field Office harvesting and logging systems technical specialist.
- →He/she prepares viable and acceptable logging and harvest plans.
- →Identifies and finds solutions to road location, harvesting, logging, site preparation, fire protection, fuels/slash treatment, and environmental protection problems and concerns.
- →Prepares a variety of timber sale and silvicultural service contracts.
- →Contracts must fully implement accepted plans, agency policies, and multiple resource management objectives.
- →Contracts must be legally exacting, clearly specified, and readily enforceable.
- →Designs contract provisions based upon field conditions, knowledge of past practices, and policy and guidelines.
- →Evaluates timber sale requirements and ongoing operations to insure that resource management and environmental protection goals are achieved.
- →Inspects operations to ensure contract compliance and interprets contract provisions consistently.
- →Makes on-the-spot decisions and gives instructions to operators to resolve sale issues.
- →The forester prepares all correspondence, documentation, and bills for each sale.
- →Prescribes silvicultural and site preparation treatments based on field exams of stand conditions and other resource values.
Requirements
- ✓Must provide proof of U.S. citizenship.
- ✓Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
- ✓Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
- ✓Direct Deposit participation required.
- ✓Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- ✓To learn more, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/.
- ✓Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment.
- ✓You cannot hold an active real estate license, nor can you have an interest or hold stocks in firms with interest in Federal Lands.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary period to evaluate your fitness and whether your continuation of employment advances the public interest.
- ✓This probationary 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 organization 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 organizational 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 probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized.
- ✓In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated.
- ✓Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of this position.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
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