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Hydrologic Technician
Bureau of Reclamation · Posted 12 days ago
Hybrid Friant, CA $41K – $81K Apply by Sep 17, 2026 Hydrologic Technician ESTJESTPISFPISTP TradesTransportation
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You will serve as a Hydrologic Technician with Bureau of Reclamation. The position serves as a Hydrologic Technician responsible for carrying out surface water and/or ground water investigations to ensure stable, efficient, and accurate water delivery systems. This involves collecting, processing, recording, analyzing, and presenting hydrologic and meteorologic data as it relates to quantity, quality, movement and distribution of surface water.
What You'll Do
- →Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Serve as Dam Tender at Friant Dam, conducting routine and emergency structural inspections and monitoring surrounding landforms.
- →Operate and manipulate valves, gates, pumps, and other water-control structures to manage river and canal releases.
- →Collect, record, and evaluate daily operational data including reservoir conditions, meteorological observations, releases to river/canal systems, and operational changes.
- →Conduct water measurement and discharge measurements, applying diverse hydrologic methods to assess flows, identify unusual conditions, and troubleshoot discrepancies.
- →Perform water quality collection and analysis, including field sampling, data evaluation, instrument calibration, and maintaining accuracy using emerging hydrologic and hydro-chemical methods.
- →Maintain, calibrate, and verify hydrologic instrumentation used for flow measurement, water quality monitoring, meteorologic data collection, and specialized sensors.
- →Collect physical and environmental data related to operating conditions, weather, and hydrologic behavior to support operational decisions.
- →Advise and inform upper management team on significant changes in hydrologic, physical, or meteorological conditions affecting dam operations.
- →Collaborate with external partners (e.g., California Parks & Recreation, SJRRP, PG&E, SCE, Friant Water Authority, local irrigation districts) to coordinate water delivery, environmental flows, recreation needs, and operational planning.
- →Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.
Requirements
- ✓Must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen or National.
- ✓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/.
- ✓Pre-employment medical examination required.
- ✓Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment.
- ✓You are required to obtain and maintain a Motorboat Operator Certification Course (MOCC).
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period to evaluate your fitness and whether your continuation of employment advances the public interest.
- ✓This probationary/trial 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.
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