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Supervisory Water and Lands Specialist
Bureau of Reclamation · Posted 66 days ago
Hybrid Carson City, NV $118K – $153K Apply by Aug 4, 2026 General Business And Industry ENTJESTJINTJISTJ
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You will serve as a Supervisory Water and Lands Specialist with the Bureau of Reclamation.
What You'll Do
- →Serves as the Division Supervisor for a multi-disciplinary team of realty, natural resource, and water and land specialists engaged in complying with federal laws to protect resources within the Lahontan Basin Area Office (LBAO).
- →Program areas include cultural resources, environmental, and realty laws; recreation management; water rights administration; Native American Affairs program; resource management planning; negotiation and implementation of water resources projects; negotiation and implementation of title transfer projects; and other natural resources special projects.
- →Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Identifies the scope, methodology, schedule and resources required to complete projects.
- →Develops and implements specialized plans to utilize special congressional appropriations.
- →Interprets appropriations language and determines how best to meet the intent of Congress.
- →Determines portion of work, if any, which could be done by Reclamation or other federal agencies.
- →Reviews drafts of plans of study, preliminary findings reports, plan formulation, working documents, planning reports and special reports and recommends revisions, additions and/or approval.
- →Responsible for reviewing the engineering/environmental/economic studies and related planning phases which contain location, design, cost estimates, construction plans and other features of potential projects under investigation.
- →Assists in the preparation and review of environmental documents for assigned projects.
- →Works with Contracting Officer/Grants Officer to implement and administer a variety of assigned contracts.
- →Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with stakeholders, industrial interests, commercial and sport fishing groups, agricultural interests, Tribes, special interest groups, and with counterparts in the community and beyond.
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/.
- ✓You may be required to travel overnight away from home for training and site visits.
- ✓Must maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment.
- ✓You are required to complete training, obtain and maintain a government credit card with travel and purchase authority.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a probationary period to evaluate your fitness and whether your continuation of employment advances the public interest.
- ✓This 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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 085e6878-d22d-4656-876e-5e5309897bb1
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